Healthcare case studies and stories

UTMB gets insight on areas to target for improvement

UTMB Health significantly enhanced patient care quality and safety through initiatives like 'Journey to Zero' and 'AIDET', leveraging Vizient clinical analytics. These efforts led to a dramatic reduction in infections and improved their Vizient Quality and Accountability ranking from #76 to #4 within two years.

Using data to increase palliative and hospice services usage

One regional health system enhanced palliative and hospice care by collaborating with Vizient consultants, implementing data-driven approaches and clinical dashboards to improve decision-making. These efforts led to a significant 15% improvement in the mortality index, reducing it from 1.13 to 0.91.

Strategic evaluation of advanced energy and smoke evacuation

UNC enlisted the help of Vizient to enhance their product evaluation and contracting processes, which led to stabilized financial value and physician-led clinical consistency for advanced energy and smoke evacuation categories.

Strategic partnership boosts compliance and excellence

Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics partnered with Vizient to standardize operations and enhance patient care across 93 departments. They achieved compliance excellence, readiness for Joint Commission surveys, and improved safety, quality and financial performance through innovative staff training and a culture of continuous improvement.

Aligning sourcing and value analysis teams drives efficiency

One health system’s supply chain services division gained more than $1 million in new value in 6 months after streamlining operations with Vizient.

The CEO of a four-hospital health system recognized the need for a strategic partner to help them achieve near-term strategic growth and return on investment. Archbold Medical Center partnered with us to assess, design and execute a high-performance, rapid impact solution to improve access and drive network optimization, physician engagement, patient retention and strategic growth.

In our partnership with Lake Charles Memorial Health System, we improved patient access, increased referrals and drove volume to strategic service lines and specialties to achieve near-term revenue growth.

The academic healthcare system improves quality scores, finances and culture

Leaders at UCI Health reached out to Vizient for help addressing their case mix index. The team provided process changes and education that transformed productivity and led to a more collaborative approach. As a result, the partnership has expanded to address population health, value-based care and improvements to outpatient clinical documentation.

One health system’s case study highlighting the importance of data integrity in optimizing a healthcare system's supply chain. By prioritizing accurate item data, they aimed to enhance efficiency and achieve their mission. Implementing a data management platform provided stakeholders with necessary information for decision-making, leading to improved supply chain management.

A strategic partnership helped Ballad Health increase value

Ballad Health saves $2.4 million in 2 years by collaborating with Vizient experts to manage pharmacy spend. By leveraging Vizient contracts and aggregation groups to standardize spend, the team found creative solutions and exceeded their cost savings goals.

Benchmarking and collaboration help RUSH reduce readmission rates

Rush University System for Health partners with Vizient in its efforts to reduce readmission rates. RUSH uses the Clinical Data Base to measure their performance and participates in the Performance Improvement Stroke Collaborative and High Utilizer Collaborative. During a 12-month period, the collaborative realized 27 fewer readmissions, avoiding an estimated $694,000 of potential costs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital prevents adverse events by improving hypoglycemia recheck timeliness

The health system recognized an opportunity to improve the timeliness of repeat point-of-care blood glucose testing following hypoglycemic events, then developed a project charter for a process to increase the frequency of hypoglycemia rechecks that was eventually extended across their entire hospital system.

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.

Speed to value: How Providence accelerated its pharmacy management performance

For Ellie Bahou, senior vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Providence, implementing a systemwide pharmacy network was the path to improving Providence’s operational performance. By aligning pharmacy operations across its 53 inpatient and outpatient facilities, the health system saved $8.5 million on drug spend.

Aligning values and expertise at INTEGRIS Health

At INTEGRIS Health, Vizient experts are embedded within the supply chain team and bring industry-leading resources to the table. As a member of both organizations, the partnership supports the healthcare system’s core pillars of excellence and strategy, starting with the supply chain process groundwork, which created a foundation for quick pivots as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded.

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.

UCLA Health streamlined care workflows using Vizient analytics

UCLA Health increases compliance and reduces mortality for patients with sepsis on admission through data-back improvement project.

With CDB implemented, Novant Health used the data to improve its quality and safety performance. New insights revealed points of variation in the system and enabled strategic planning to support a quality improvement culture across the system.

The LENS visual management system increases team engagement

A home health team noticed a decline in the participation of their clinical staff engagement. the health system’s home health division implemented and adopted the Learning and Engagement System (LENS™) visual management system — a solution offered through Vizient Safe and Reliable Healthcare.

Instilling a value analysis team leads to savings

The academic health system partnered with Vizient met with experts ® to tackle large scale financial improvements, including reducing operational costs, improving patient access, growing service lines and modernizing their IT infrastructure.

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.

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Solis Mammography transforms their supply chain generating efficiencies and savings

David Pyle, chief operating officer at Solis Mammography, partnered with Vizient to unite the supply chain process and streamline operations across the organization’s nearly 100 sites of care.

Norman Regional Health System developed its leadership and leveraged a cascading strategy to build a highly reliable organization.

Barnes Jewish Hospital chose to partcipate in an improvement project to reduce mortality by increasing compliance with the SEP-1 bundle in the ED, resulting in a 15% decrese in the mortality index for ED patients.

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.

Vizient APP Advisory Services helps advanced practice providers break down silos

Nebraska Medicine recognized that its advanced practice providers (APPs) needed opportunities for leadership development and wanted to increase APP representation at the executive level. Leveraging lessons learned from a Vizient workshop, Nebraska Medicine leaders launched a program aimed at increasing engagement and connections between APPs and other staff.

Adoption of a surgeon-led initiative delivers $900k in savings and reduces clinical variation

A surgical team at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center used Vizient® Procedural Analytics cohort opportunity data to reduce custom pack usage to improve efficiency and reduce clinical variation.

One academic medical system uses Vizient data as their true North

Quality leaders at a southern-based hospital system use the Vizient Quality & Accountability Scorecard to help to benchmark their facilities against their peers and develop a performance improvement plan. The team uses the Vizient Vulnerability Index™, to identify the three most critical zip codes that have the highest incidence of elevated hemoglobin A1C rates and diabetic lower extremity amputations.