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Quality & clinical operations
Pharmacy
Strategies to improve medication safety

By meeting titrated medications regulatory requirements, healthcare organizations not only enhance compliance with medication safety practices but empower nurses to provide high-quality patient care ... read more

Workforce & culture
Quality & clinical operations
The time is now: Addressing the wellbeing of nurse executives

Vizient’s 2024 chief nursing officer wellbeing survey identifies leadership fatigue and secondary trauma as key drivers in burnout and turnover... read more

Financial sustainability
Supply chain
5 ways to improve the RFP process for providers and suppliers

Thoughtful consideration should be given to the RFP process. Here are 5 ways to ensure the best outcome for both providers and suppliers... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Building effective recall teams: A blueprint for hospital safety

Effective recall management — whether involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food, equipment, vehicles or other defective products — are critical to ensuring patient safety... read more

Quality & clinical operations
As-built hospital facility drawings are key to emergency response and operational efficiency

As-built drawings — updated versions of construction documents that illustrate the building as it was actually constructed — for hospitals and healthcare facilities are vital assets that enhance oper... read more

Workforce & culture
Quality & clinical operations
Perspectives of tomorrow’s nursing leaders: Eight trends for newly licensed nurses

Through insights from the 2024 Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ (NRP) Outcomes Report, healthcare leaders should focus on eight key trends for licensed nurses in 2025... read more

Pharmacy
Surveying the landscape of the newest Alzheimer’s disease medications

The controversy surrounding the FDA's recent approvals of medications for Alzheimer’s disease has raised important questions about the medications’ safety and cost, as well as their ability to delive... read more

Profitable growth
The Key Strategic Decisions Health Systems Faced in 2024…And What’s in Store for 2025

It has been an incredibly busy and exciting year for our Strategy & Business Transformation practice at Kaufman Hall. In 2024, we observed hospitals and health systems take steps to reinvigorate thei... read more

Profitable growth
Quality & clinical operations
Payers in 2025: A Case for Optimism, Agency, and Innovation Velocity

The future will favor payers that adapt to changing market circumstances with agency and velocity. Payers will need to make tough choices... read more

Financial sustainability
Company
Profitable growth
Be prepared. Be very prepared.

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