Nebraska Medicine Earns Elite National Quality Award

Excellence Award from Vizient, Inc. for Quality Leadership Performance

Nebraska Medicine is honored to announce its recognition by Vizient, Inc., as a recipient of the 2016 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD Quality Leadership Award. The award recognizes Nebraska Medicine’s performance among more than 100 academic medical centers participating in Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study. Thirteen academic medical centers were recognized this year. Nebraska Medicine is ranked tenth and is the only health system in the region to earn this recognition. The others are:

• University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
• NYU Langone Medical Center
• Mayo Clinic Hospital-Rochester
• Froedtert Health-Froedtert Hospital
• Rush University Medical Center
• WVU Medicine West Virginia University Hospitals
• Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• Cedars-Sinai Health System
• Houston Methodist
• Nebraska Medicine
• The Ohio State University Wexner Health System
• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
• University of Vermont Medical Center

“This is truly a special honor for everyone at Nebraska Medicine,” said Dan DeBehnke, MD, MBA, CEO of Nebraska Medicine. “Achieving a Five Star ranking took a tremendous amount of dedication and work from many, many people here.”

This year, more than 100 academic medical centers and 124 community hospitals were included in the study, which reviewed performance data from a variety of sources, including Vizient’s Clinical Data Base, the core measures data base, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network.

"Nebraska Medicine is dedicated to providing our patients with the highest quality, safest, most efficient and compassionate care available," said Michael Ash, MD, Chief Transformation Officer, "To achieve a top ten Vizient Quality Leadership rank, among our nation’s elite academic medical centers, is a reflection of our colleagues and their devotion to extraordinary patient care.”

About Nebraska Medicine
Nebraska Medicine leads the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future through extraordinary care, discovery and learning. The most esteemed academic medical center in the region, Nebraska Medicine offers exceptional patient care combined with innovative research and education. This newly integrated organization provides its patients with access to more than 1,000 physicians, 661 licensed hospital beds in Omaha and Bellevue, and nearly 40 specialty and primary care clinics in Omaha and the surrounding area. For more information, visit www.nebraskamed.com.