Insights

It’s been two decades since Vizient launched its Quality & Accountability Study, which empowers hospitals to improve patient outcomes and achieve lasting performance... read more

With extension of the 2017 tax cuts identified as a key priority for the incoming Trump administration, offsetting expense actions will be needed to avoid increasing the federal deficit. Hospital lea... read more

Recent efforts to contemporize primary care have proven that the best intentions, the smartest ideas, and a lot of money are no guarantee of commercial success. Corporate America has found primary ca... read more

A servant leader needs to be intellectually curious and strive to learn more from their employees as they lead. Every moment spent with caregivers and colleagues is a learning and a teaching moment... read more

A new conversation about founder mode vs. management mode is challenging conventional thinking about leadership styles and organizational structures. In a new blog, Ken Kaufman defines the characteri... read more

Daily Dispatch, Day 4: That’s a wrap! Summit concludes on a reflective — and hopeful — note... read more

A shift in meaning of the term “brat” during the summer of 2024 marks a fundamental change in the notion of how to communicate with the public. This shift offers lessons that often contradict some of... read more

Hospitals face enormously complex operational challenges every day. The advanced analytics used by large commercial businesses can offer solutions that improve revenue, lower expenses, and enhance pa... read more

The Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Learn about the impact the program has made on nurses and the nursing profession and check out the interactive timeline t... read more

The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means ... read more

With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of s... read more

The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticate... read more