Vizient announces 2025 Top Performers in clinical quality and sustainability excellence

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 17, 2025 — 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:

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

Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are:

Top performers in the community hospital cohort are:

Top performers in the small community hospital cohort are:

Top performers in the critical access hospital cohort are:

Top performers in the pediatric hospital cohort are:

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:

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:

The Sustainability Excellence Award recognizes healthcare organizations demonstrating outstanding commitment to sustainability. Award rankings are based 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:

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.