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Profitable growth
Workforce & 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

Financial sustainability
Data & analytics
Workforce & culture
Using Contracting and Clinical Data Collaboratively to Gain Clinical and Executive Support

The key to effectively using supply spend, contract and clinical data is to correctly identify the need and expected result, as well as knowing the available data sources and tools to ensure the desi... read more

Workforce & culture
Quality & clinical operations
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

Workforce & culture
America’s Hospitals Need a Makeover

In an environment unlike anything any of us have experienced, regaining financial equilibrium will require a comprehensive view of our organizations and environment as well as an openness to an outco... read more

Workforce & culture
Future Hospital or Hospital of the Future? Incorporating Inclusion and Diversity for Greater Health Equity

Whether incorporating non-Western modalities or championing equitable access to facilities and treatments, the future of healthcare isn’t about retrofitting hospitals — it’s about reimagining their c... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & 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

Data & analytics
Workforce & culture
Vizient Vulnerability Index™ is a Uniquely Big-Picture Look at Patient Outcomes and the Social Needs That Impact Them

Calculating the increasingly complex equation of ensuring everyone can attain their highest level of health requires an index with robust data integration that allows health inequities to be examined... read more

Workforce & 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

Pharmacy
Workforce & culture
The Domino Effect: Pharmacy Technician Staffing Challenges

The challenges around hiring and retaining quality pharmacy technicians in the workforce today is a fast-growing issue. And the solution is clear... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
Making the Most of Healthcare Performance Improvement Efforts

Shannon Hale offers insights on how healthcare organizations can best improve their performance improvement processes and the care they provide – on a continuous basis... read more