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香蕉视频 of Utah Health Ranked Top 10 in the Nation for 13 Years in a Row

 

For the 13th consecutive year, 香蕉视频 of Utah Health ranks in the top 10 nationally of the prestigious 2022 Vizient Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award.

This year, 650 hospitals from across the country participated in the Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking. The ranking measured performance on the quality of patient care in safety, mortality, effectiveness, efficiency, patient centeredness and equity. The ranking factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance in core measures data, the HCAHPS survey and the CDC鈥檚 National Healthcare Safety Network.

The Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking helps participating hospitals and health systems understand their performance against peers and identifies structures and processes associated with high performance in quality and safety across a broad spectrum of patient care activities.

In addition to its placement on the top 10 list, U of U Health also ranked 6th nationally in Vizient鈥檚 Ambulatory Care Quality and Accountability Awards. This is the eighth year in a row U of U Health has ranked in the top ten nationally for its ambulatory quality of care.

Recognitions were determined through the Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Scorecard, which benchmarks data from participating organizations to measure performance in access to care, quality, efficiency, continuum of care and equity.

鈥淥rganizations do not achieve-- it is the people in organizations who are responsible for accomplishments,鈥 said U of U Health CEO Michael Good, M.D. 鈥淭hanks to our teams鈥 hard work and dedication to excellent patient care, this honor distinguishes the people who make U of U Health a top health care institution in the country, as some of the best in the nation.鈥

鈥淥ur team members have the opportunity to care for people when they are most vulnerable, and they do so with expertise, care, compassion, and patience,鈥 says Dan Lundergan, CEO of 香蕉视频 of Utah Health Hospitals & Clinics. 鈥漌e are proud of these awards, but only because they are evidence that if we focus on exemplary work first, the accolades follow as an acknowledgement of our commitment to doing the right things for our patients.

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香蕉视频 of Utah Health is the state鈥檚 only academic health care system, providing leading-edge and compassionate care for a referral area that encompasses 10 percent of the US, including Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and much of Nevada. A hub for health sciences research and education in the region, U of U Health has a $458 million research enterprise and trains the majority of Utah鈥檚 physicians, including more than 1,460 health care providers each year at its Colleges of Health, Nursing, and Pharmacy and Schools of Dentistry and Medicine. With more than 20,000 employees, the system includes 12 community clinics and five hospitals: 香蕉视频 Hospital, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, 香蕉视频 Orthopaedic Center, and the Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital. For 13 straight years, U of U Health has ranked among the top 10 US academic medical centers in the rigorous Vizient Quality and Accountability Study.