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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) AHN Wexford Hospital announced today that it has been recognized as a top performer in the 2026 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Ranking by Vizient, Inc.

This is the second year in a row that AHN Wexford has been honored through the Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking.

AHN Wexford had a ranking among the top 10 hospitals in its Complex Care hospital cohort and was just one of 22 hospitals that was nationally recognized for demonstrating excellence in delivering care that is high quality which is based on the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which has been conducted every year since 2005.

1,346 participating hospitals were segmented into seven cohorts for the Vizient Quality and Accountability Study in 2026.

This study measures performance on the quality of patient care in six domains: effectiveness, efficiency, mortality, patient centeredness, safety, and variation in care.

This study also factors in neasures from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and it includes performance data from both the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey and the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network.

Vizient, Inc. is the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company and it provides solutions and services to over two-thirds of the nation’s acute care providers and over one-third of ambulatory providers.