Sept. 22, 2022 10:00 UTC
IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vizient, Inc. today announced the winners of their clinical performance and supply chain excellence awards for 2022. The awards, which recognize the work of member health systems in the areas of clinical quality and accountability, supplier diversity and environmentally preferred sourcing, were presented during the 2022 Vizient Connections Summit held Sept. 19-21 in Las Vegas.
“Through unwavering commitment and determination, this year's top performers have been able to accelerate improvement, reduce variation and increase savings for their organizations. How they approach performance improvement from a leadership and culture perspective provides a path forward for other health systems and hospitals,” said Byron Jobe, president and chief executive officer for Vizient. “We applaud each of these organizations for their work to deliver high quality, cost-effective patient care in their communities.”
The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award is given annually to comprehensive academic medical centers; large, specialized complex care medical centers; complex care medical centers and community-based medical centers that demonstrate superior performance, as measured by the Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking program, which has been calculated annually since 2005. Descriptions of the award cohorts are available here.
The comprehensive academic medical center top performers are:
NYU Langone Health
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rush University Medical Center
UC San Diego Health
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Houston Methodist Hospital
University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
UCSF Medical Center
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center
Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin - Froedtert Hospital
Keck Hospital of USC
Intermountain Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic
The large, specialized complex care medical center top performers are:
Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital
Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital
Mayo Clinic Florida
NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital
Morristown Medical Center
NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Neenah
Lancaster General Hospital
Sanford USD Medical Center
The complex care medical center top performers are:
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist West Hospital
Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse
Union Memorial Hospital
The Miriam Hospital
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Golden Triangle
Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital
NorthShore Highland Park Hospital
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato
UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
The community hospital top performers are:
Intermountain Layton Hospital
Hill Country Memorial Hospital
Parkview Noble Hospital
Sharon Hospital
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Baraboo
Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Bellevue Medical Center
Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center
Essentia Health St. Mary's Detroit Lakes
Northern Dutchess Hospital
Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing
OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital
Parkview Dekalb Hospital
Parkview Whitley Hospital
Spectrum Health Big Rapids
Intermountain Cedar City Hospital
Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital
Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital
The Vizient Quality Leadership Rising Star Award recognizes comprehensive academic medical centers that have made significant improvements in their year-over-year rankings in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study. The Rising Stars are:
UNC Medical Center
University of Maryland Medical Center
The Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency, and equity. The composite scoring system uses patient-level data from the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center, the Vizient Access and Throughput data, as well as data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base. The top performers are:
NYU Langone Health
Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group
Rush University Medical Group
UCI Health
The Vizient Supplier Diversity Award recognizes members in each cohort on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community through the engagement, empowerment and utilization of minority-, women-, veteran-, LGBT- and disability-owned business enterprises. The top performers are:
Comprehensive academic medical centers: University of Maryland Medical System
Large, specialized complex care medical centers: Novant Health
Complex care medical centers: ThedaCare
Community hospitals: Kaiser Permanente
The Environmentally Preferred Sourcing Excellence Award ranks members in each cohort on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products containing at least one environmentally preferred attribute as a percentage of their Vizient spend. The top performers are:
Comprehensive academic medical centers: Johns Hopkins Health System
Large, specialized complex care medical centers: North Memorial Health Care
Complex care medical centers: Legacy Health
Community hospitals: Faith Regional Health Services
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest health care performance improvement company, serves more than 60% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient’s solutions and services improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at .