Hospitals are performing better on quality and safety metrics than they did pre-pandemic, despite seeing sicker patients—and more of them. That's according to a new report from the AHA and Vizient. The organizations analyzed data from Vizient's Clinical Data Base, which contains information from more than 1,300 hospitals and collects data on more than 10 million inpatients and 180 million outpatients each year. In the first quarter of this year, hospitalized patients—despite facing more acute, complex health issues—had a survival rate more than 20% higher than anticipated based on the severity of their conditions compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, per the report. Between April 2023 and March 2024, the analysis found 200,000 patients who survived health episodes that likely would have been fatal in 2019.