The U. system was named a winner of the 2017 Vizient Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award at a summit held Thursday night in Denver, officials said.
The award recognizes academic medical centers for superior quality and safety performance, as measured by annual studies that Texas-based Vizient, a national health-care performance company, has conducted since 2005.
“The dedicated efforts of our faculty and staff have ensured that residents of the Mountain West have access to some of the best care in the country across our hospitals and clinics,“ A.