PURPOSE
The UT-HIP Quality Collaborative is the systemwide group of Chief Quality Officers and other quality leaders from the eight health and medical institutions within the UT System.
WHY VIZIENT?
Vizient’s Clinical Database (CDB) provides UT System institutions with a trusted, nationally validated framework for measuring and improving quality. As the leading benchmarking platform for academic medical centers—representing 97% of AMCs, over 69% of acute care hospitals, and more than 35% of the ambulatory market.
Vizient delivers monthly, risk-adjusted insights on mortality, length of stay, readmissions, hospital-acquired conditions, cost, and efficiency. By comparing performance within tailored peer cohorts and tracking progress over time, UT System hospitals gain a fair, accurate view of where they excel and where opportunities for improvement exist.
Vizient’s annual national rankings and awards further recognize excellence and support our systemwide commitment to delivering high-quality, high-value care.
STRATEGIC GOALS
Advance Excellence in Quality and Value Across the UT System
Drive continuous improvement in the quality, safety, and value of care delivered to patients by aligning shared priorities, strengthening performance, and elevating systemwide standards. Topics
Promote Shared Learning and Best Practices
Facilitate open, ongoing exchange of insights, innovations, and lessons learned to accelerate improvement and reduce unwarranted variation across institutions.
Foster Systemwide Collaboration to Improve Patient Outcomes
Build a unified community of clinicians, analysts, and leaders who work together across UT System institutions to identify opportunities, solve challenges, and advance high-impact quality initiatives. The primary audience for the Quality Collaborative calls are Quality and Safety personnel across our participating institutions, including Chief Quality Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Quality Directors and Analysts. Additionally, we also invite Physician/ Surgical, Nursing, Pharmacy, Patient Satisfaction, Infection prevention leaders and personnel to attend to relevant calls.
VIZIENT QUALITY COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
UT Health Intelligence Platform:
- Dr. Robert Murphy, MD, Associate Dean for Applied Informatics and Associate Professor, UT Health Science Center at Houston
- Timothy Kraeter, Director of Clinical Performance Improvement, UT Health Science Center at Houston
- Quamishia ShuRon Green, Executive Director, UT Health Science Center at Houston
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Dr. William Daniel, Vice President and Chief Medical and Quality Officer (CQO)
- Ashley Holroyd, Associate Vice President, Quality and Operational Excellence
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Dr. Bela Patel, Vice Dean of Healthcare Quality and Division Director for Critical Care Medicine at the McGovern Medical School; Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center
- Jean McBride, Director Process Quality and Improvement, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Dr. Gulshan Sharma, Senior Vice President, Chief Medical and Clinical Innovation Officer
- Mara Hehli, Director of Quality and Patient Safety
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Dr. Bryan Alsip, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
- Dr. Juan Garza, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality and Health Informatics Officer
- Brian Lewis, Vice President, Quality and Clinical Outcomes
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
- Dr. Aditi Rao, Director of Quality and Patient Safety
The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center
- Dr. John Yoder, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Informatics Officer
- Kate Starnes, Vice President of Health Operations
- Dr. Zane Robertson, Director of Quality Management
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Jose Rivera, Chief Admin Quality Officer
- Nicole Skinner, Executive Director, Quality Programs
Harris Health System
- Dr. Joseph Kunisch, Vice President of Quality Programs
- Dr. Kunal Sharma, Vice Chief of Staff for Quality at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital
- Hortincia Renee Williams, Director of Quality
Parkland Health
- Dr. Michael Lane, Chief Quality and Safety Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer
- Gretchen Blake, Vice President of Quality, Infection Prevention, Analytics and Performance Improvement
- Sri Adusumilli, Director of Clinical Quality and Safety Analytics
