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Financial sustainability
The Balance Sheet Bridge
Profitable growth
Care at Home Programs Bolster Everything from Cost Savings to Health Equity to Supplier Innovation — All While Boosting Patient Satisfaction

Health systems must consider increased investment in care-at-home initiatives to safely speed discharge out of the hospital setting and to limit avoidable admissions. 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

Financial sustainability
What Is the Primary Role for Health System Financial Reserves?

Understanding what your resources are, the role your decisions place them in, and then positioning them in a role-responsive way is the most important management initiative for every balance-sheet-ce... read more

Profitable growth
How Many Swings Can You Afford to Get a Hit?

The environment in which higher education is operating is creating the need for new thinking and strategies. Institutions may need to swing big and hope for a home run. read more

Company
Profitable growth
Healthcare’s Wicked Problems

Lately, every CEO I talk with tells me how hard it is to run a healthcare organization in 2023. These are people with long experience, people who over time have pushed the right buttons and pulled th... read more

Data & analytics
Profitable growth
Leveraging network integrity to achieve customer loyalty

When looking for the best customer loyalty strategy for healthcare organizations, using physician outreach teams and network optimization tools can bring the most success in improving patient leakage... read more

Data & analytics
Financial sustainability
The Bumpy Road to Breakeven

In conversations with hospitals and health system leadership across the U.S., most management teams express the same goal: get back to breakeven. For many, the road to breakeven will be bumpy with ga... read more

Financial sustainability
Supply chain
Physician Preference Cards: How a Small Card Can Lead to Big Savings in The Operating Room

It is critical that health systems drive new efficiencies to increase revenue and cost savings and that’s especially true for the OR, which represents both the largest revenue driver for health syste... read more