Four UC Health medical centers highlighted in Vizient’s 2025 rankings
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On Sept. 17, 2025, Vizient announced its rankings of top performers in clinical quality, including four UC Health medical centers. This acknowledgement “recognizes hospitals and healthcare organizations nationwide for their achievements in delivering exceptional patient care and advancing sustainability practices.”
Rankings are based on Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study. Now in its 20th year, the study tracks performance improvement through the Vizient Clinical Data Base, which provides data from more than 1,400 health care facilities on patient quality of care.
“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.”
Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award
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).
UC top performers: UC San Diego Health and UCSF Health, in the comprehensive academic medical center cohort.
Vizient Ambulatory Quality and Accountability Award
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.
UC top performers: UC Irvine Health and UCLA Health