UHC Names Rising Stars: Hospitals With Substantial Improvement in Quality and Accountability Study

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Oct 17, 2013, 08:35 ET

CHICAGO, Oct. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC named the 2013 recipients of the Rising Star Award during the UHC Annual Conference 2013 in Atlanta, Ga. The award recognizes significant improvements in ranking in UHC's annual Quality and Accountability Study, which identifies exemplary performance in patient safety, mortality, clinical effectiveness, and equity of care.

The UHC Rising Star winners are:

  • UK HealthCare
  • Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Stanford Hospital & Clinics

"UHC congratulates these hospitals for successfully focusing on health care quality and accountability improvement," said Irene M. Thompson, UHC's president and chief executive officer. "The achievements of the Rising Stars are especially notable because other academic medical centers are also working in earnest to improve patient safety and quality, and thus it has become quite difficult to stand out among more than 100 peer organizations."

The UHC Quality and Accountability Study was designed to help academic medical centers identify structures and practices that are associated with high performance in quality and safety.

About UHC

UHC is an alliance of the nation's leading nonprofit academic medical centers, which are focused on delivering world-class patient care. Formed in 1984 and based in Chicago, Ill, UHC fosters collaboration with and among its 118 academic medical center and 299 affiliated hospital members through its renowned solutions in the areas of performance improvement, comparative data and analytics, supply chain management, strategic research, and public policy. UHC helps its members achieve excellence in quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness. UHC's membership includes the leading nonprofit academic medical centers in the United States. For more information, visit uhc.edu.

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