Sustaining high performance starts with creating a culture of reliability where teams are engaged and supported in striving to continuously improve operations and care delivery
Operational effectiveness is key to providing high quality care. Without having a culture that supports continuous improvement initiatives, opportunities to improve patient care may be missed and departmental efforts may be siloed. Vizient works alongside service line, pharmacy and health system leaders to streamline operations systemwide.
A large academic health system aligns their diverse medical facilities to improve care delivery
Aligning cost and quality strategies systemwide for market growth
Initially each facility maintained services and analytics used to guide goal planning and performance improvement independently. After expanding their use of the Vizient clinical and operational analytics, advisory and group purchasing organization services the health system quickly generated efficiencies and savings.
Identify systemwide quality improvement priorities by unifying disparate clinical data
Novant Health enhances systemwide quality control
Implementing a single data source across its 15 medical centers gave facility and system leaders the insights needed to implement and sustain quality improvements.
Nurse residency program increases nurse retention by improving transition to practice
NYC Health + Hospitals takes a comprehensive approach to support first-year nurses
NYC Health + Hospitals partnered with Vizient to implement residency program addressing high nurse turnover rates. The program aimed to provide the clinical and emotional support from leadership that new nurses needed. By scaling up the program, the health system retained more nurses and reduced turnover rates, resulting in significant cost savings and improved patient care. The success of the program has even attracted nurses from outside to join the system.
Collaboration, leadership and data improve patient care
UCLA Health’s leadership ensures continuous, sustained improvement
UCLA Health has a unified trio of leaders who have been guiding the organization to repeated successes in their journey of continuous, sustained improvement since 2014. This trio relies on a framework to facilitate positive change called MOVERS which taps into their organizational culture unifies their teams around a systemwide quality improvement effort.
Evolving a healthcare strategic partnership
Using data and repeatable processes to drive savings
Baptist Memorial Health Care partnered with Vizient beyond its original GPO contract to a total performance management agreement. The health system is on track to achieve the goal of $73 million in cost savings and added revenue across workforce, pharmacy, supply chain and purchased services opportunities.
A data-driven approach to capacity management
A data-driven approach to capacity management
Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California embarked on a multiyear initiative to optimize the movement of patients through its facilities; known simply as patient flow. Thanks to staff-wide commitment — and with the valued assistance of Vizient data and analytics tools — the length of hospital stays has been significantly reduced.
Forward-thinking leadership prevents shortages of critical drugs and medical supplies
Ochsner Health accesses critical supplies and medications during the pandemic
Under the leadership of Debbie Simonson, system vice president of pharmacy services, Ochsner Health has built-in resiliency into its supply chain to weather disruptions. Simonson and the Ochsner team had a plan in place for accessing these medications to meet exploding demand.
Optimizing healthcare staffing leads to $6.9 million in savings and higher productivity
A large health system partners with Vizient to improve contracting staffing processes and drive efficiency
One large health system uses Vizient technology and expertise to achieve labor efficiencies across multiple sites of care by identifying ideal staffing ratios, standardizing rates, improving productivity and reducing contract labor expenses.
Finding more hours in the day at Yuma Regional Medical Center
Caring for a unique population, Yuma Regional Medical Center faced extra pressure to maximize its use of time. Can a process take fewer hours and still lead to better results?
New clinical pathway for hip fractures streamlines processes and improves care across 12 hospitals
Sentara Healthcare improves care quality and hospital flow for patients with hip fractures
Sentara Healthcare developed a new clinical pathway to streamline hip fracture care that achieves four primary goals: Get the patient into surgery as quickly as possible, focus on early mobility and ambulating, reduce dependence on opioids and discharge patients to the appropriate care setting.
Yale New Haven Health System leads a successful supplier transition during COVID-19
Transforming its supply chain and transitioning suppliers in the pandemic
Lori Lee, senior vice president of clinical operations, took the helm of Yale New Haven Health System's supply chain and began a distributor transition during the height of COVID with Vizient leading the RFP process.
How leaders at an academic medical center system use data to advance health equity
A data-driven approach to rise above health inequity
A large academic health system was working to create a more inclusive culture by providing education and training on diversity, equity and inclusion and appointing a vice president and chief health equity officer to advance health equity. The new leader participated in the Vizient Health Equity Strategy Accelerator and collaborated with peers from health systems around the country.
Many successes, one common thread.
All of the success stories you see here were made possible by our relentless drive to provide unique insights, innovation, bring innovation and build collaboration. It’s The Vizient Difference. And it’s the shortest distance to healthier healthcare.
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