Vizient has awarded more than 120 health systems and hospitals for their clinical quality and sustainability practices.
The awards are based on Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study, which evaluates performance improvement across more than 1,400 healthcare facilities. Six domains in patient care quality were measured: safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and variation in care.
Three health systems received two awards. New York City-based NYU Langone Health and Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health each received an ambulatory quality award, and Stanford (Calif.) Health Care received a sustainability excellence award. All three were also named a top academic medical center.
Here are the recipients of this year’s excellence awards.
Editor’s note: Learn more about Vizient’s methodology here.
Top academic medical centers:
- NYU Langone (New York City)
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- Intermountain Medical Center (Salt Lake City)
- Stanford (Calif.) Health Care
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston)
- University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City)
- UC San Diego Health
- UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
- Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles)
Top large, specialized complex care medical centers:
- Intermountain Health St. George (Utah) Regional Hospital
- Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
- NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island (Mineola, N.Y.)
- Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden, Utah)
- ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah (Wis.)
- NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn (New York City)
- Memorial Hermann-The Woodlands (Texas) Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic-Fairview Hospital
- Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield, Ill.)
- UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies (Loveland, Colo.)
- NewYork-Presbyterian-Queens (New York City)
- Missouri Baptist Medical Center (St. Louis)
- Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital (Provo)
- Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire (Wis.)
- Cleveland Clinic Weston (Fla.) Hospital
- Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi (Oxford)
- NewYork-Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (New York City)
- Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville)
- UNC Rex Health Care (Raleigh, N.C.)
Top complex care medical centers:
- Houston Methodist The Woodlands (Texas) Hospital
- Houston Methodist Baytown (Texas) Hospital
- Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital (Geneva, Ill.)
- Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital
- AdventHealth Fish Memorial (Orange City, Fla.)
- ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton (Wis.)
- The Chester County Hospital and Health System (West Chester, Pa.)
- Northwestern Medicine McHenry (Ill.) Hospital
- Houston Methodist Sugar Land (Texas) Hospital
- St. Joseph Medical Center (Chicago)
- Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital
- UCHealth Highlands Ranch (Colo.) Hospital
- Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital (Denver)
- Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital
- Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic-Tradition Hospital Port (St. Lucie, Fla.)
- Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (Pleasanton, Calif.)
- AdventHealth Celebration (Kissimmee, Fla.)
- Memorial Hermann-Pearland (Texas) Hospital
- Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills (Calif.) Campus
- Kearney Regional Medical Center (Neb.)
Top community hospitals:
- Froedtert West Bend (Wis.) Hospital
- Intermountain Health American Fork (Utah) Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian-Allen Hospital (New York City)
- Northwestern Medicine Huntley (Ill.) Hospital
- Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital (Creve Coeur, Mo.)
- Intermountain Health LDS Hospital (Salt Lake City)
- Northern Dutchess Hospital (Rhinebeck, N.Y.)
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Dickson City (Dickson City, Pa.)
- AdventHealth Winter Garden (Fla.)
- Froedtert Menomonee Falls (Wis.) Hospital
- Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital (Nassau Bay, Texas)
- Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital (Simpsonville, S.C.)
- Parkland Health Center-Farmington (Mo.)
- AHN Wexford Hospital (Wexford, Pa.)
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown Oaks (Easton, Pa.)
- Novant Health Matthews (N.C.) Medical Center
- Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (Fairvax, Va.)
- Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center Authority
- AdventHealth Winter Park (Fla.)
- OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital
- Northwell Health-Syosset (N.Y.) Hospitals
Top small community hospitals:
- Intermountain Health Park City (Utah) Hospital
- Intermountain Health Layton (Utah) Hospital
- Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden (West Memphis, Ark.)
- Intermountain Health Sevier Valley Hospital (Richfield, Utah)
- Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Suburban Community Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.)
- Parkview Huntington (Ind.) Hospital
- Mountain West Medical Center (Tooele, Utah)
- Intermountain Health Spanish Fork (Utah) Hospital
- Corewell Health Zeeland (Mich.) Hospital
- Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital (Texas)
- Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville (Miss.)
- Parkview Noble Hospital (Kendallville, Ind.)
- Sparrow Health Carson Hospital (Carson City, Mich.)
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Carbon (Lehighton, Pa.)
- Intermountain Health Cedar City (Utah) Hospital
- Parkview Whitley Hospital (Columbia City, Ind.)
- Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital (Sandy, Utah)
Top critical access hospitals:
- Intermountain Health Fillmore (Utah) Community Hospital
- UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital (Woodland Park, Colo.)
- ThedaCare Medical Center-Berlin (Wis.)
- Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital (Raceland, La.)
- Crete (Neb.) Area Medical Center
- Intermountain Health Cassia Regional Hospital (Burley, Idaho)
- Parkview LaGrange (Ind.) Hospital
- SSM Health-Waupun (Wis.) Memorial Hospital
- New Ulm (Minn.) Medical Center
- Outer Banks Health (Nags Head, N.C.)
- Intermountain Health Heber Valley Hospital (Heber City, Utah)
- Essentia Health Holy Trinity Hospital (Graceville, Minn.)
- Corewell Health Gerber Hospital (Fremont, Mich.)
Top pediatric hospitals:
- Maimonides Children’s Hospital (New York City)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center
- Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.)
- Atlantic Health Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center
- Parkview Regional Medical Center (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
- The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (New York City)
- NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York City)
Rising Star Award
This award recognizes hospitals that have made significant improvement in care quality, which Vizient measures as scoring in the top 25 and rising at least 20 positions in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study since the previous year. The recipients are:
- Sutter Medical Center-Sacramento (Calif.) Memorial
- UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award
This award measures outpatient care quality across five domains: access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency and variation in care. The recipients are:
- NYU Langone Health (New York City)
- UCLA Health (Los Angeles)
- UCI Health (Orange, Calif.)
- University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City)
- University of Miami Medical Group
Sustainability Excellence Award
This recognizes organizations with mature sustainability programs that are enhanced with enterprise-level goals and objectives, as well as environmentally preferred purchasing. The recipients are:
- Comprehensive academic medical center: Stanford (Calif.) Health Care and Jackson Health System (Miami) (tie)
- Large, specialized medical center: Nuvance Health (Danbury, Conn.)
- Complex care medical center: Trinity Health (Minot, N.D.)
- Small community medical center: Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital (Dansville, N.Y.)
- Pediatric hospital: University of Michigan Health (Ann Arbor)
