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Our Commitment to Quality
Top 10 in the Nation
2021 Vizient Quality & Accountability Ranking
- Mayo Clinic-Minnesota
- Rush University Medical Center
- UC San Diego Health
- University of Utah Health
- NYU Langone Health
- UC Irvine Medical Center
- Ronald Raegan UCLA Medical Center
- Houston Methodist Medical Center
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Stanford Health Care
For 12 consecutive years, Vizient, Inc., has ranked University of Utah Health in the nation’s top 10 for quality health care among leading academic medical centers. U of U Health achieved the No. 1 ranking in the nation in 2020, 2016, and 2010.
The Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award recognizes academic medical centers for demonstrating superior quality and safety performance as measured by the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study. The study measures superior performance based on the Institute of Medicine’s six domains of care: safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and patient-centeredness.
U of U Health has also ranked in the top five in the nation for ambulatory care for seven consecutive years, ranking No. 2 in 2021. The Vizient Ambulatory Care Quality and Accountability Award measures the quality of outpatient care in five domains: access to care, capacity and throughput, quality and efficiency, continuum of care, and equity.


Why Quality Matters To Us: Patients
This honor is a win for every member of our dedicated team across the system. But even more importantly, it's a win for our patients.
How Does the Quality & Accountability Study Work?
The Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking is one of the most rigorous available. In 2021, 565 participating hospitals were segmented into four cohorts. The ranking measured performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: 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’s National Healthcare Safety Network.
The Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking helps participating hospitals and health systems understand their performance against their peers and identifies structures and processes associated with high performance in quality and safety across a broad spectrum of patient care activity. The recognition period is for work spanning July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
How Vizient Compares To Other Rating Systems
How are various health care quality rankings different?
- Based on actual care delivery—not reputation
- Provide a current view of performance based exclusively on past year
- Provide apples to apples comparison since academic medical centers care for the most complex and sickest patients in the country
PATIENT POPULATION | |||
Patient Care Measurements | Medicare Only | All Adults | |
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Patient-Centered | ✔ | ✔ | |
Safe | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Efficient | ✔ | ✔ | |
Effective | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Timely | ✔ | ✔ | |
Equitable | ✔ | ||
U of U Health Rankings | U.S. News & World Report: #1 Hospital in Utah |
CMS: 5 Stars, Top Rating in Utah |
Vizient: #4 in Quality Nationally |