![]() While Vizient has conducted the Quality and Accountability Study every year since 2005, this year’s release comes as other hospital rating systems have received increased scrutiny for their objectivity, complexity and relevance. Patients deserve ratings that are timely, objective and relevant RUSH University Medical Group was ranked fifth in the nation for outpatient care, an award based on access to care, continuum of care, quality, efficiency and equity. The entire Rush University System for Health was rated the nation’s best for how it champions “inclusion in their supply chain and accelerate economic growth in their local community.” Selection criteria is based on percentages of purchasing contracts awarded to minority-, women-, veteran-, LGBT- and disabled person-owned businesses. RUSH also was recognized nationally for outpatient care and supplier diversity. ![]() Unlike other ranking systems that rely on reputation surveys and old or incomplete data, Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study is based entirely on de-identified patient outcome data hospitals provide several times each year directly from electronic medical records for all inpatients - regardless of insurance coverage. More than 1,000 hospital facilities feed data directly from electronic medical records to a data analytics platform hospitals use to identify and accelerate ways to improve patient care. Vizient groups hospitals by four subtypes, so large academic medical centers like RUSH are compared with hospitals that have similar volumes and perform a similar range of procedures.Īs the country’s largest member-owned health care services company, Vizient helps participating hospitals and health systems benchmark performance against their peers.
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