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Quality & clinical operations
Spotlight on maternal health

As maternity care deserts grow and mortality rises, providers, suppliers and nonprofits across the healthcare ecosystem are working to ensure better outcomes for mothers and their babies. read more

Financial sustainability
Uncertainty Regarding Covenant Compliance Continues

Responses to Kaufman Hall’s 2023 “State of Healthcare Performance Improvement” report indicate ongoing concern regarding covenant challenges in 2024. Organizations need to understand the causes of co... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
Courageous Conversations: Fostering Meaningful Dialogue About Quality End-of-Life Care

Vizient’s Nicole Spatafora, assistant vice president, performance improvement programs, offers key takeaways for healthcare organizations when conversing with patients about palliative care. read more

Supply chain
Safety in Numbers: Strategies for PPE Inventory Management

How can health systems take a “Goldilocks” approach to PPE, ensuring they don’t have too much or too little – but rather, a “just right” amount that strikes a balance between financial and clinical r... read more

Workforce & culture
The power of strategic healthcare partnerships

In today's healthcare landscape, tight margins, disruptors and new digital tools require organizations to take a new approach. Vizient CEO Byron Jobe shares how successful health systems leverage str... read more

Supply chain
Workforce & culture
Enabling Successful Working Relationships Between Clinical Value Analysis and Purchasing Operations

The value of investing in relationships and combining strengths cannot be overstated when it comes to balance and collaboration in the healthcare supply chain, says Vizient’s Sam Weech. read more

Workforce & culture
Promoting Chief Nurse Executives’ Self-care Improves Overall Staff Wellbeing

Healthcare organizations can create larger workforce impacts by ensuring wellness starts at the top with proactive management of psychological hazards and job remodeling to encourage chief nurse exec... read more

Workforce & culture
Four Reasons Healthcare Organizations Should Implement Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

As electric vehicle adoption continues to rise, hospitals can benefit from implementing EV charging infrastructure in many ways — financially, in their green initiatives, through data-driven insights... read more

Supply chain
Data & analytics
New assurance score introduces much-needed transparency into the supply chain

An industry first for healthcare, the score is built on Vizient’s risk assessment principles and allows providers and suppliers to leverage data in a more predictive, proactive way. read more

Quality & clinical operations
Understanding Options for Breast Reconstruction

More than 100,000 women undergo breast reconstruction surgery each year. It’s a deeply personal decision, and one that requires an understanding of the various options and what’s involved in each. read more