Vizient^® announces the Top Performers in clinical quality and sustainability excellence, recognizing hospitals and healthcare organizations nationwide for their achievements in delivering exceptional patient care and advancing sustainability practices. The awards were announced Sept. 16 at the Vizient Connections Summit in Las Vegas.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study, underscoring two decades of advancing performance improvement through the Vizient Clinical Data Base (CDB). The CDB provides transparent data for over 1,400 facilities on patient quality of care—such as mortality, length of stay, readmission rates and complications—that enable hospitals to benchmark against peers, identify opportunities for improvement and expedite data collection.

To commemorate the milestone, Vizient is introducing a new user experience for the CDB that helps providers identify opportunities earlier and drive better outcomes—delivering faster insights, year-to-date performance tracking, and ‘what-if’ modeling. The Top Performers of this year’s Study exemplify these advancements, standing out for their ability to translate data-driven insights into meaningful improvements in patient care.

“As healthcare continues to evolve, these organizations are leading the way in demonstrating what is possible when a relentless focus on clinical quality and patient outcomes drives performance,” said Vizient CEO Byron Jobe. “Their achievements highlight how innovation, collaboration, and a deep commitment to patients can transform care delivery and strengthen communities. Vizient is honored to recognize these leaders for setting today’s standards of excellence and shaping the future of healthcare.”

The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in seven cohorts through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and variation in care. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey and the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are:

• NYU Langone Health
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Houston Methodist Hospital
• Intermountain Medical Center
• Stanford Health Care
• Rush University Medical Center
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center
• University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
• UC San Diego Health
• UCSF Medical Center
• Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital
• Keck Hospital of USC

Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are:

• Intermountain Health St. George Regional Hospital
• Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
• NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
• Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital
• ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah
• NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
• Memorial Hermann - The Woodlands Hospital
• Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital
• UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies
• NewYork-Presbyterian - Queens
• Missouri Baptist Medical Center
• Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital
• Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
• Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital
• Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi
• NewYork-Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
• Mayo Clinic Florida
• UNC Rex Health Care Inc

Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are:

• Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
• Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
• Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital
• AdventHealth Fish Memorial
• ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton
• The Chester County Hospital and Health System
• Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
• Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
• St. Joseph Medical Center
• Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital
• UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital
• Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital
• The Greenwich Hospital Association
• Inova-Alexandria Hospital
• Cleveland Clinic - Tradition Hospital
• Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley
• AdventHealth Celebration
• Memorial Hermann - Pearland Hospital
• Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills Campus
• Kearney Regional Medical Center

Top performers in the community hospital cohort are:

• Froedtert West Bend Hospital
• Intermountain Health American Fork Hospital
• NewYork-Presbyterian - Allen Hospital
• Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital
• Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
• Intermountain Health LDS Hospital
• Northern Dutchess Hospital
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson City
• AdventHealth Winter Garden
• Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
• Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital
• Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital
• Parkland Health Center - Farmington
• AHN Wexford Hospital
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks
• Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
• Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
• Stillwater Medical Center Authority
• AdventHealth Winter Park
• OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital
• Northwell Health - Syosset Hospitals

Top performers in the small community hospital cohort are:

• Intermountain Health Park City Hospital
• Intermountain Health Layton Hospital
• Baptist Memorial Hospital - Crittenden Inc
• Intermountain Health Sevier Valley Hospital
• Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center
• Suburban Community Hospital
• Parkview Huntington Hospital
• Mountain West Medical Center
• Intermountain Health Spanish Fork Hospital
• Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital
• CHRISTUS Jasper Memorial Hospital
• Baptist Memorial Hospital - Booneville
• Parkview Noble Hospital
• Sparrow Health Carson Hospital
• Lehigh Valley Hospital - Carbon
• Intermountain Health Cedar City Hospital
• Parkview Whitley Hospital
• Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital

Top performers in the critical access hospital cohort are:

• Intermountain Health Fillmore Community Hospital
• UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital
• ThedaCare Medical Center - Berlin
• Ochsner St Anne General Hospital
• Crete Area Medical Center
• Intermountain Health Cassia Regional Hospital
• Parkview LaGrange Hospital
• SSM Health - Waupun Memorial Hospital
• New Ulm Medical Center
• Outer Banks Health
• Intermountain Health Heber Valley Hospital
• Essentia Health Holy Trinity Hospital
• Corewell Health Gerber Hospital

Top performers in the pediatric hospital cohort are:

• Maimonides Children’s Hospital
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Hackensack University Medical Center
• Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center
• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center
• Parkview Regional Medical Center
• The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• Tampa General Hospital
• The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
• The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
• NewYork-Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center

The Rising Star Award recognizes healthcare organizations that made significant improvement in care quality, measured by a rise in at least 20 positions in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study from the prior year and scoring in the top 25. Rising Stars are:

• Sutter Medical Center - Sacramento Memorial
• UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central

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 variation in care. The composite scoring system uses patient-level data from the AAMC-Vizient Clinical Practice Solutions Center®, Vizient Access and Throughput Data, as well as data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base. Top performers are:

• NYU Langone Health
• UCLA Health
• UCI Health
• University of Utah Health
• University of Miami Medical Group

The Sustainability Excellence Award recognizes healthcare organizations demonstrating outstanding commitment to sustainability. Award rankings are based on organizations’ sustainability program maturity, including enterprise-level goals and objectives, and environmentally preferred purchasing, assessed by the percentage of Vizient spend on products that meet Vizient’s environmentally preferred purchasing standard. Top performers are:

• Comprehensive academic medical center: Stanford Health Care and Jackson Health System (tie)
• Large, Specialized Medical Center: Nuvance Health
• Complex Care Medical Center: Trinity Health
• Small community medical center: Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital
• Pediatric Hospitals: University of Michigan Health

About Vizient, Inc.

Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, provides solutions and services to more than two-thirds of the nation’s acute care providers and more than one-third of ambulatory providers. Vizient offers proprietary data and analytics to deliver unique clinical and operational insights and a contract portfolio representing $156 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.

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