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Quality & Clinical Operations
Embracing a changing workforce: Preparing advanced practice providers for practice is key

As the ratio of advanced practice providers to physicians tightens, it’s crucial that healthcare organizations ready their APPs through transition-to-practice programs as expectations for their perfo... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
True patient safety requires uniting diverse stakeholders

With World Patient Safety Day just around the corner, it feels especially important to highlight some key — and startling — statistics. read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
At the midway point, stronger financial performance continues

Revenue and expense trends and length of stay will be indicators for the months ahead, but for now, good planning and tough decisions are translating into better results. read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Increasing competition in the ambulatory arena offers new partnership opportunities

The transition to value-based care continues. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for example, has set a goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care ... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Emerging infectious diseases: An emergency or an operational pivot?

Every year, we witness new or different emergencies, each presenting unique challenges to healthcare facilities — but how can we tell which is an emerging infectious disease and which is an operation... read more

Data & Analytics
Positioning short-term assets in the current rate environment

Because it’s been so long since we’ve experienced a rate environment that provides for noticeable earnings, the art of generating excess earnings from cash assets may have gone dormant in the minds o... read more

Supply Chain
Are we enemies or allies? The symbiotic relationship between purchasing and accounts payable to drive success

Collaboration between purchasing and accounts payable plays a pivotal role in shaping the financial health and overall efficiency of a healthcare organization. Here, Vizient’s Patrick Marier explores... read more

Supply Chain
The only way to curb climate change is together

Taking part in collaborations is vital not just for the health of our industry but to ensure positive outcomes for people, places and the planet. If your organization is on the fence about committing... read more

Data & Analytics
Turning Ambition into Action: Achieving Health Equity Starts with Better Measurement

A successful health equity strategy starts with better measurement and effective communication. read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Five key strategies to mitigate high-consequence infectious diseases in hospitals

Learn about important action steps hospitals can take to prevent, manage and contain outbreaks of high-consequence infectious diseases such as Ebola, SARS and COVID-19, especially as The Joint Commis... read more