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IRVING, Texas--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Vizient, Inc. announced top performers in clinical quality, supplier diversity and environmental sustainability excellence. The awards recognize the achievements of participating hospitals and health systems in patient care quality and supply chain excellence and were announced at Vizient Connections Summit Sept. 17 in Las Vegas. “Top performers set a precedent in leadership and culture for other health systems and hospitals to follow," said Byron Jobe , Vizient president and CEO. "We celebrate each of these organizations for their efforts to deliver cost-effective, high-quality patient care in their communities." The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four 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 equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are: NYU Langone Health Rush University Medical Center UC Irvine Medical Center Houston Methodist Hospital Intermountain Medical Center Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center UCSF Medical Center Froedtert Health - Froedtert Hospital UC San Diego Health Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mayo Clinic Rochester The University of Kansas Hospital Keck Hospital of USC University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are: St George Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Memorial Hermann - The Woodlands Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire NewYork-Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Mayo Clinic Florida McKay-Dee Hospital Center NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Fairview Southdale Hospital Endeavor Health - Evanston Hospital Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital AdventHealth Daytona Beach Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital Houston Methodist West Houston Hospital Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital AdventHealth Fish Memorial AdventHealth Palm Coast Odessa Regional Medical Center Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital The Chester County Hospital and Health System Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton Corewell Health Grosse Pointe Hospital AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach Greenwich Hospital St. Joseph Medical Center Prisma Health Baptist Hospital AdventHealth Celebration The Medical Center of Southeast Texas Saddleback Memorial Medical Center-Laguna Hills Campus UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Stanford Tri-Valley Endeavor Health - Highland Park Hospital Top performers in the community hospital cohort are: Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center Alta View Hospital Parkview Huntington Hospital Cedar City Hospital Mountain West Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks Parkview Noble Hospital University of Kansas Health Systems - Great Bend Campus Garrett Regional Medical Center Riverton Hospital Parkview Whitley Hospital Corewell Health Zeeland Hospital Fairview Northland Regional Hospital Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital Layton Hospital Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Holy Family Memorial Southeast Georgia Health System-Camden Campus INTEGRIS Grove Hospital Sharon Hospital Baptist Medical Center - Nassau Fairview Lakes Medical Center Integris Miami CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Beeville The Rising Star Award recognizes academic medical centers 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: Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center University of Chicago Medicine 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 equity. 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: UCLA Health Systems Clinics NYU Langone Health University of Utah Health UCI Health Rush University Medical Group The Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellence Award recognizes provider clients across five cohorts on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community. Selection criteria is based on contract purchases of minority-, woman-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned business enterprises as a percentage of a provider client’s Vizient spend. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: University of Maryland Medical System Large, specialized complex care medical center: Novant Health Complex care medical center: Memorial Hermann Health System Pediatric cohort: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The Environmental Sustainability Excellence Award ranks members across five cohorts on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products that meet Vizient's Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Standard as well as those who commit to the White House-Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge. The top performers are: Comprehensive academic medical center: Stony Brook University Hospital Large, specialized complex care medical center: Memorial Health Complex care medical center cohort: Legacy Health Community hospitals: Buchanan General Hospital Pediatric: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles About Vizient, Inc. Vizient, Inc. , the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serves more than 65% of the nation’s acute care providers, including 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 35% of the non-acute market. The Vizient contract portfolio represents $140 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective, high-value care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, strategic, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. 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IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vizient, Inc. today announced 2023’s top performers in clinical quality and supply chain excellence. The awards recognize the work of Vizient provider customers in clinical quality and accountability, supplier diversity and environmentally preferred sourcing excellence. The awards were presented during the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit held Sept. 18-21 in Las Vegas. “Top performers demonstrate qualities of leadership and adaptability, and they leverage advanced analytics to enable their organizations to improve performance across the care continuum and in their communities,” said Byron Jobe, chief executive officer for Vizient. “These organizations set a high standard in patient care and we are proud to recognize their achievements.” The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes participating healthcare organizations in four 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 equity. The study factors in measures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and includes performance data from the HCAHPS survey and the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. Top performers in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort are: NYU Langone Health Rush University Medical Center Mayo Clinic in Rochester Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital UC San Diego Health System Intermountain Medical Center UCSF Medical Center Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics UC Irvine Medical Center Cleveland Clinic Houston Methodist Hospital Top performers in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort are: NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island Utah Valley Regional Medical Center McKay-Dee Hospital Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital St. George Regional Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Neenah Missouri Baptist Medical Center Fairview Southdale Hospital Mayo Clinic in Arizona Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center NorthShore Edward-Elmhurst Health Evanston Mayo Clinic in Florida Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital Top performers in the complex care medical center cohort are: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Houston Methodist Sugar Land Houston Methodist West Hospital Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital Memorial Hermann - Pearland Hospital Penn Medical Chester County Hospital Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital Inova Loudoun Hospital NorthShore Highland Park Hospital Rockledge Regional Medical Center Hays Medical Center University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center Northern Westchester Hospital Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Duke Regional Hospital UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital AdventHealth Fish Memorial Top performers in the community hospital cohort are: Layton Hospital Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center Parkview Noble Hospital Methodist Hospital Hill Country Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hecktown Oaks Cedar City Hospital Corewell Health Zeeland Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing Parkview Huntington Hospital Parkview Whitley Hospital Sharon Hospital Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital Parkview Dekalb Hospital Essentia Health Detroit Lakes Allina Health Owatonna Hospital Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital Ochsner Medical Center – Hancock American Fork Hospital Northern Dutchess Hospital Fairview Northland Regional Hospital Fairview Range Medical Center The Rising Star Award recognizes comprehensive academic medical centers 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: Corewell Health Grand Rapids Sanford Broadway Medical Center M Health Fairview – UMMC 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 equity. 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: NYU Langone Health University of Utah Health Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group Stony Brook Medicine Clinical Practice Management Plan Inc Rush University Medical Group The Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellence Award recognizes provider customers in each cohort on how they champion inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community. Selection criteria is based on contract purchases of minority-, women-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned business enterprises as a percentage of a provider customer’s Vizient spend. The top performer in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort is: Rush System for Health The top performer in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort is: North Broward Hospital District The top performer in the complex care medical center cohort is: University Health Truman Medical Centers The top performer in the community hospitals cohort is: Stillwater Medical Center Authority The Environmentally Preferred Sourcing Excellence Award ranks members in each cohort on contributions to human and environmental health through responsible purchasing decisions. Ranking is based on the purchase of products that meet Vizient’s Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Standard, which includes all Vizient-identified chemical attributes and at least two waste attributes, as a percentage of Vizient spend. The top performer in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort is: New York-Presbyterian Hospital The top performer in the large, specialized complex care medical center cohort is: Mosaic Health System The top performer in the complex care medical center cohort is: Tift Regional Health System Inc The top performer in the community hospitals cohort is: Unity Physicians Hospital The top performer in the children’s hospital cohort is: Valley Childrens Healthcare About Vizient, Inc. Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, serves more than 60% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 97% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 25% of the non-acute care market. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $130 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient’s solutions and services improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at .

The first patient received treatment using Monarch platform, as part of a clinical study at UCI Health, for a robotically assisted electromagnetic (EM)-guided percutaneous access and mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) procedure The Monarch platform for robot-assisted urology procedures. (Credit: Medical Device Business Services, Inc.) Ethicon, a company of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, has announced the first robotic-assisted removal of kidney stones using its Monarch platform for Urology. The first patient received the Monarch platform treatment, as part of a clinical study conducted at UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). In the clinical trial, the platform was used to perform robotically assisted electromagnetic (EM)-guided percutaneous access and mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) procedure. It was conducted in collaboration with co-investigator Dr. Mihir Desai from the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Desai said: “The prevalence of kidney stones remains high, and many urologists seek a new treatment option that reduces overall retreatment and complication rates. In patients who require treatment through surgery, close to one in two will require retreatment within five years.” Monarch is a flexible robotic platform intended for use in bronchoscopy and urology procedures, which received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April last year. The platform is designed to enable urologists navigate through the kidney using robotic-assistance designed for access and control using a handheld controller. It provides the urologists with a single platform that supports both ureteroscopic and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) procedures, said Ethicon. Monarch uses a novel EM targeting platform to help urologists gain more precise access to the kidney and to achieve overall better outcomes in a single procedure. According to the company, ureteroscopic procedures are the most common surgical stone procedures worldwide, which become highly challenging with the increase in stone size. PCNL procedures are associated with several barriers and Monarch platform allows urologists to overcome the obstacles using unique and minimally invasive technology. Furthermore, the platform provides 80% less radiation exposure, enhanced accuracy and consistency, compared to standard fluoroscopic guided access techniques, said Ethicon. UCI School of Medicine department of urology chair and UCI Health kidney stone & kidney disease services director Jaime Landman said: “This clinical study is the first in the world to research and demonstrate the potential for improved navigation, access, clearance, and control in mini-PCNL procedures using the MONARCH Platform for Urology. “In addition to potentially helping urologists achieve stone-free patients in a single procedure, this approach could help reduce the need for retreatment after kidney stone removal and decrease risks and complication rates. “After years of work, we are thrilled to be a part of this first clinical series which introduces a new treatment to improve outcomes for patients in need.”