Recognizing recent award winners
Vizient recently recognized award winning hospitals for their achievements improving the performance of their supply chain operations and lowering the overall cost of care over the course of 2017. The awards were presented at the 2018 Vizient Spring Connections Summit, held May 1-3, in Las Vegas. Please see below for more information on the awards and a complete list of winners.
Spring 2018 award winners
Recognizes member organizations achieving the greatest performance improvement as measured by documented cost savings in 2017
Integrated Delivery Network
- Sutter Health – Top Ranked Performer
- MultiCare Health System
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- Baptist Health Care, Pensacola, Fla.
- Tidelands Health
Community Hospital
- Stormont Vail Health – Top Ranked Performer
- Crouse Health
- Regional West Health Services
- Erie County Medical Center Corporation
- Lawrence General Hospital
Recognizes performance in supply chain management as measured by supply expense at the facility level as well as for select departments such as pharmacy, laboratory, imaging, radiology, blood services, cardiology and surgical services
- Emory University Hospital Midtown – Top Ranked Performer
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- University of Vermont Medical Center
- University of Toledo Medical Center
- UAB Medicine
Recognizes member organizations that achieved the highest performance in cost management as measured by group purchasing organization savings and value
Integrated Delivery Network
- BJC HealthCare – Top Ranked Performer
- Mayo Clinic
- Sentara Healthcare
- Partners HealthCare System
Community Hospital
- Aultman Hospital – Top Ranked Performer
- Licking Memorial Hospital
- Mercy Medical Center
- Torrance Memorial Medical Center
- Huntington Hospital
Recognizes the innovation resulting from member projects or initiatives that improve supply chain performance in the areas of: distribution, logistics and inventory management, sourcing and resource management processes, and supply chain management innovation
Distribution, Logistics and Inventory Management
- Temple University Health System – Top Ranked Performer
- BJC HealthCare
- Parkview Health
Sourcing and Resource Management
- Parkview Health – Top Ranked Performer
- BJC HealthCare
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- University of Utah Health
- WellStar Health System
- Novant Health
- Aspirus, Inc.
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- Rush University Medical Center
- Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
Supply Chain Innovation
- Penn Medicine – Top Ranked Performer
- Providence St. Joseph Health
Recognizes the member that best champions inclusion in their supply chain and accelerates economic growth in their local community through the engagement and empowerment of minority-, women- and veteran-owned business enterprises
- Parkland Health & Hospital System
Recognizes the member that positively contributes to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions
- Advocate Health Care
Vizient Quality and Accountability Study
The Vizient Quality and Accountability Study identifies high-performing principal member organizations in the areas of quality and safety and provides tools as a catalyst for organizational improvement. To learn more about the Quality and Accountability Study and award winners from previous years, please view the related resources section here.
Fall 2017 award winners
Vizient recognized award winning hospitals for their achievements in the areas of clinical, quality, operational performance, sustainability and supply chain management at the 2017 Clinical Connections Summit. Please see below for more information on the awards and a complete list of winners.
About the award
The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award is given to top-performing academic medical center and community hospital members that demonstrate excellence in delivering high-quality care based on the measures in the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study. The measures include safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity of care. The award also considers performance in core measures data, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network.
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.
Recipients
Academic medical centers
- Mayo Clinic Hospital-Rochester
- NYU Langone Health
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin - Froedtert Hospital
- Rush University Medical Center
- Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- University of Utah Health
- UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
- Lehigh Valley Health Network
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- The University of Kansas Hospital
- Nebraska Medicine
- Oregon Health & Science University Hospital
Community hospitals
- Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin St. Joseph's Hospital
- Wake Forest Baptist Health - Lexington Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital
- Sanford Worthington Medical Center
- ThedaCare Medical Center - Shawano
- Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
- Truman Medical Centers Lakewood
- Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Community Memorial Hospital
About the award
This award honors academic medical centers that demonstrate excellence in delivering high-quality outpatient care in the following five key domains: access to care, capacity management and throughput, quality and efficiency, continuum of care, and equity.
Recipients
- NYU Langone Health
Clinical Affairs & Affiliates - Emory Healthcare Physician Group Practices
- Northwestern Medical Group
- University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
- University of Utah Health
About the award
The Rising Star Award recognizes academic medical centers that made significant improvements in their year-over-year rankings in the annual Vizient Quality and Accountability Study - a study that identifies exemplary performance in safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity of care.
Recipients
- Duke University Hospital
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
About the award
This award recognizes innovative solutions from health care organizations developing or adopting digital health technology solutions that enhanced or changed their care delivery models.
Recipients
- Froedtert Health
- UC Irvine Health
About the award
The award honors member hospitals demonstrating their commitment to supplier diversity through the economic development of minority-, women- and veteran-owned business enterprises in their local communities.
Recipient
- Premier Health
About the award
The award recognizes the innovation resulting from member projects or initiatives that improve supply chain performance in the areas of: distribution, logistics and inventory management, sourcing and resourcing management processes, and supply chain management innovation.
Distribution, Logistics and Inventory Management recipients
- Froedtert Health
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- Premier Health
- Rush University Medical Center
- University of Chicago Medicine
Sourcing and Resource Management recipients
- Froedtert Health
- Shriners Hospital for Children
- University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Supply Chain Innovation recipient
- University of Vermont Medical Center
About the award
The award honors member hospitals demonstrating a strong commitment to good governance, community engagement and environmental stewardship.
Recipients
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- University of Vermont Medical Center