U. health system wins national award for quality

The University of Utah announced Friday that its health-care system has won a national award for quality for an eighth consecutive year.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 conducte