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Workforce & Culture
Nurturing success: Retaining strategies for newly licensed nurses

In a recent focus group, the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program team uncovered themes that contribute to high levels of support and professional satisfaction, most notably providing stable transiti... read more

Financial Sustainability
8 (mostly easy) ways to reduce your medical gas spend

As health systems continue to navigate tight margins and seek ways to transform variable expenses, there are some quick wins to be found. Step No. 1? Understand your product supply agreement. read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Four ways to address ligature risks in patient rooms and beyond

Ligature risk mitigation requires collaboration among stakeholders and adherence to best practices, including comprehensive risk assessments, implementing design solutions, staff training, and ongoin... read more

Pharmacy
Workforce & Culture
A chief pharmacy officer in your C-suite: Vital to health system success

Margins are tight everywhere in healthcare, but a hospital’s pharmacy department has a strong capacity to bring value — especially if that organization has an established chief pharmacy officer as pa... read more

Profitable Growth
Data & Analytics
How do you compare? Leverage data to optimize your payer positioning and value-based care performance

Vizient’s Tawnya Bosko outlines five strategies for how healthcare providers can use claims, clinical data and benchmarking services to maximize their potential with payers by navigating blind spots ... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Tap into these four strategies to improve hospital water quality

To ensure patient safety, water quality is key. And there are four main strategies that can help achieve that goal: regular water quality testing, water treatment and technologies, equipment maintena... read more

Workforce & Culture
Profitable Growth
Think like tech: Lessons for healthcare organizations

Is your healthcare organization keeping up with the pace of change? In a world of digital disruption, it's time to think like tech companies and embrace innovative strategies. Explore further insight... read more

Profitable Growth
Value-based care disruptors: What can health systems learn from their successes and failures?

By paying attention to how value-based care disruptors are changing the healthcare landscape, system leaders can adapt to their own strategies to share in the reward of increased patient quality care... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Improving patient safety: Early recognition and a timely response to clinical deterioration

Vizient’s Tammy Williams shares recommendations on how healthcare organizations can improve patient safety with timely response to clinical deterioration. read more

Profitable Growth
One size does not fit all: The power of customer segmentation

In today’s highly competitive healthcare landscape, companies that embrace tailored segmentation approaches have witnessed significant gains in sales efficiency and profitability. read more