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Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
Building a Successful Strategy to Embrace Advanced Practice Providers

To celebrate National Advanced Practice Providers Week (APPs), Vizient AVP of Clinical Team Insights Christen Hunt outlines the steps necessary to build a successful APP workforce strategy... read more

Workforce management and culture
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now

Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But figh... read more

Workforce management and culture
Clinical operations and quality
Looking Ahead at Workforce Needs to Care for the Patient of the Future

Caring for the patient of the future requires building a workforce with the right mix of skills, roles and functions to tackle the growing list of drivers upending healthcare. These include an increa... read more

Financial sustainability
Workforce management and culture
Back to “Rule”: Key Inpatient Prospective Payment System Policies Affecting Hospitals

As healthcare providers prepare for FY 2024, Vizient’s Emily Jones and Jenna Stern outline what hospitals need to know about the FY 2024 IPPS final rule changes... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
Workforce management and culture
Benefits of Launching Direct-to-Employer Services to Your Health System Employees

Advantages to testing Direct-to-Employer offerings internally provide healthcare organizations valuable, transferable insights on process, structures, implementation and scalability that will build t... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
Workforce management and culture
Struggles with Direct-to-Employer Engagement and What Health Systems Can Learn from the Pockets of Success

While some health systems have struggled to fully adopt direct-to-employer opportunities, Joe Maher shares insights from those who are finding success... read more

Workforce management and culture
Clinical operations and quality
Health Systems Can’t Afford to Neglect New Nurses

Workforce shortages and increased workloads have led to burnout and high turnover among healthcare staff, especially nurses. As Vizient CEO Byron Jobe writes, nurse retention programs are a proven wa... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
Eight Key Elements for Successful Nurse Residency Programs

Dana Garcher offers leading tactics for implementing nursing transition to practice programs, the most effective engagement and retention tools for healthcare’s newest nurses... read more

Workforce management and culture
Is the Traditional Hospital Strategy Aging Out?

All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever... read more