Vizient members:
View our latest COVID-19 updates
Our COVID-19 member resources provide the latest clinical, surgical and pharmacy supply updates, including information from the Vizient Disaster Response team, suppliers, regulatory agencies and industry organizations.
Navigate technology used during the COVID-19 pandemic
TechFlash Reports provide a concise summary of the available clinical evidence, with additional discussion on the technology significance, current practice and alternatives, patient selection criteria, financial issues and recommendations.
Developed by our performance management subject matter experts, reports related to technology essential to treating COVID-19 patients are made available to the public. Additional reports are available exclusively to participants of Vizient Member Networks.
COVID-19 resources
Guidance
- Clinical workforce well-being playbook: Leading through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond
- Guide for hospitals to federal Opening Up America Again guidelines
- Guidance to the OSHA COVID-19 Interim Enforcement Response Plan
- COVID-19 supply projections: Planning for reduction, reuse and reprocessing
- Strategic National Stockpile: State-by-state resource
- Pharmacy Field Hospital Toolkit
- Evaluation of COVID-19 Emergency Blanket Waivers for healthcare providers
- Minimum required nursing documentation
- Hospital Alternative Care Sites for Inpatient Surge Capacity Algorithm
- COVID-19 Continuous Patient Readiness Plan: Disaster Preparedness
- Pharmacy Practice Considerations
- Guidance for Triage of Non-Emergent Surgical Procedures
- CMS guide to telemedicine for providers including CPT codes and 1135 waiver instructions
- AMA Senior Physician COVID-19 Guidebook
- COVID-19 emergency coding information
- COVID-19 Guidance for Converting ASCs to Hospitals
- COVID-19 FAQ: N95 Mask Reprocessing for ASP and Steris
Medical societies
- SHEA Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Resources
- Society for Critical Care Medicine COVID-19 resources
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Nurses Association COVID-19 resources
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- Association of Women's Health, Obsteric and Neonatal Nurses
Supplier resources
Training resources
Member-provided resources
Literature and research sources
Vizient has published clinical resources to provide information and increase public health awareness about COVID-19. Current information is disseminated from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These resources provide guidance to assist with effective prevention and further spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: COVID-19
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: Face masks and filtering facepiece respirators
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: Decontamination methods for filtering facepiece respirators
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: Decontamination Systems EUA Updates
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: Personal Protective Equipment EUA Updates
Vizient Clinical Resource Guide: Guide to isolation and surgical gown selection
At the forefront of pediatric innovation
The Vizient Pediatric Tech Watch delivers information on novel pediatric technologies, devices and pharmaceuticals. This issue covers a variety of topics, such as:
- Lung protective technologies for the O.R.
- Virtual reality for pediatric cardiology
- Effects of COVID-19 on children and pregnant women
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS)
- Trump Administration Issues Second Round of Sweeping Changes to Support U.S. Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic
- CMS reevaluates Accelerated Payment Program and suspends Advance Payment Program
- CMS COVID-19 Conference Call Notes (March 12, 2020)
- Actions to address spread of coronavirus including suspension of survey activities
- Key Protective Mask Guidance for Healthcare Workers
- Medicaid federal resources for states
- Press release: Sweeping regulatory changes to help U.S. healthcare system address COVID-19 patient surge
- Vice President's letter to hospital administrators about reporting and data sharing
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Diagnostic Test Hotline- For test developers and labs who have questions about the EUA process or spot shortages of testing supplies. Contact our toll-free line 24 hours a day: 1-888-INFO-FDA, choose option *
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Supply Update
- NIOSH-Approved Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators for Use in Health Care Settings During Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
- Letter of Authorization: NIOSH-Approved Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators for Use in Health Care Settings During Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
- FDA and CDC take action to increase access to respirators and N95 masks for health care personnel
- FDA Policy for Compounding of Hand Sanitizers During COVID-19
U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services (HHS)
- HHS Announces Additional Payments to High Impact Hospitals
- N95 Respirators to Support Healthcare Workers in COVID-19 Outbreaks
- Secretary Azar letter to governors to maximize health care workforce
- Guidance to states to extend capacity of health care workforce
- CARES Provider Relief Fund Attestation
- HHS Extends Deadline for Attestation, Acceptance of Terms and Conditions for Provider Relief Fund Payments to 45 Days
- COVID-19 treatment guidelines from the National Institutes of Health
The Joint Commission (JC)
Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA)
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
CDC Emergency Operations Center: (770) 488-7100
- Personal Protective Equipment Burn Rate Calculator
- Assessment Tool: Hospital Preparedness for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients
- Healthcare Professional Preparedness Checklist For Transport and Arrival of Patients Potentially Infected with COVID-19
- What you need to know about Keeping Workplace, Homes, Schools, or Commercial Establishments Safe
- CDC specimen submission form
- Human Infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Person Under Investigation (PUI) and Case Report Form
- Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings
- Strategic National Stockpile Information
- NHSN Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity Module
- Alternate Care and Isolation Sites
- Interim Guidance for Implementing Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers Who May Have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19
- Interim Considerations for Infection Prevention and Control of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Inpatient Obstetric Healthcare Settings
- Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Emerging practices
Vizient is committed to ongoing research of Vizient members’ emerging practices and other related updates to federal and regulatory guidelines in support of efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. As new information surfaces, updates will be provided.
The CDC has recommended strategies for hospitals to optimize their supply of N95 masks stratified by the severity of their shortage. Read more about it in the Emerging Practice Summary: Reprocessing of N95 masks during severe shortages.
Learn about the Novaplus Enhanced Supply Program to improve supply resiliency.