Recognizing recent award winners
Vizient recently recognized award-winning hospitals for their achievements in the areas of clinical, quality and operational performance.
The awards were presented at the 2019 Vizient Connections Education Summit, held Sept. 16-19, in Las Vegas. Please see below for more information on the awards and a complete list of winners.
2019 Clinical Performance Awards
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.
The award was posthumously renamed in 2015 to honor Bernard "Bernie" Birnbaum, MD, who served as senior vice president, vice dean and chief of hospital operations for NYU Langone Medical Center and as a member of the former University HealthSystem Consortium's board of directors.
See descriptions of the award cohorts.
Recipients
Comprehensive Academic Medical Centers
- Rush University Medical Center
- NYU Langone Health
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
- University of Utah Health
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- UC San Diego Health
- Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center
- Stanford Medicine
- University of Texas Medical Branch
- Oregon Health and Science University
- Houston Methodist Hospital
Large, Specialized Complex Care Medical Centers
- Mayo Clinic Florida
- Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center
Complex Care Medical Centers
- Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Community Memorial Hospital
- Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
- Excela Health Latrobe Hospital
- Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
- Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital
- Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe
Community Hospitals
- Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital
- Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing
- American Fork Hospital
- Logan Regional Hospital
- OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital
- Cedar City Hospital
- Progress West Hospital
This award measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, capacity and throughput, quality and efficiency, continuum of care, and equity. The composite scoring system uses practice and patient-level data from the Vizient-AAMC Clinical Practice Solutions Center, the Vizient Access Database, the Clinical Data Base, and, core measures data.
Recipients
- NYU Langone Health
- University of Utah Health
- Stanford Medicine
- University of Colorado Medicine – UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
- University of Washington Medical Center
2019 Supply Chain Excellence Awards
This award recognizes the top-performing member in each cohort for achieving strong operational controls and efficiency in their supply chain operations.
Comprehensive Academic Medical Center
- MedStar Health, Inc.
Large, Specialized Complex Care Medical Center
- Freeman Health System
Complex Care Medical Center
- Hunterdon Healthcare System
Community Hospital
- Freeman Health System
This award recognizes members in each cohort that best champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community through the engagement, empowerment and utilization of minority-, women- and veteran-owned business enterprises.
Comprehensive Academic Medical Center
- University of Maryland Medical System
Large, Specialized Complex Care Medical Center
- Broward Health
Complex Care Medical Center
- Arrowhead Regional Medical Center/County of San Bernardino
Community Hospital
- Novant Health
This award recognizes members in each cohort that positively contribute to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions.
Comprehensive Academic Medical Center
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Large, Specialized Complex Care Medical Center
- Cooper University Health Care
Complex Care Medical Center
- UC Health
Community Hospital
- Hawai'i Pacific Health
Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking
The Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking identifies high-performing member organizations in the areas of quality and safety and provides tools to support organizational improvement.