Workforce Optimization

To deliver quality health care with a continued focus on patient outcomes, health care organizations need to maximize their staff efficiency. Labor alone can account for more than half of a health care organization’s operating costs. This becomes more complicated with nursing shortages and fluctuations in patient volumes and acuity. Providers may be unable to strategically align their staff and can often resort to paying overtime and other costly measures while adding stress to already strained resources.

Vizient® teams have deep expertise in health care workforce consulting. We harness best practices, advanced workforce management technologies and expert consulting so our members can better manage core staff scheduling, contract labor, vendors, credentials and billing.

Contract Labor Management

Vizient Contract Labor Management is a vendor-neutral management service that acts as a third party with nursing and clinical staffing agency vendors on contracting and managing contingent labor savings, efficiencies and quality to health care providers.

Our comprehensive program is built on four pillars:

• Strategic sourcing
• Market management
• Technology and analytics
• Dedicated services

Our goal is to safeguard ideal staffing levels, maintain optimal patient care and provide members with best practices around temporary labor usage for sustainable competitive rates and terms for our members. Advanced reporting capabilities and performance benchmarks help members improve oversight and recognize improvement opportunities.

Labor Cost Consulting is our healthcare workforce solution that can help reduce labor spend as much as 7 percent by applying a systematic approach to collecting data, mapping and analyzing processes, benchmarking best practices, removing limiting conditions, and designing and implementing the perfect process. We drive toward an optimized care model, based on a balanced workload, by matching staffing with workload, redesigning processes and ensuring the model is sustainable.

Shift Optimizer

To help maximize the efficiency of your full-time staff, our web-based technology helps to maintain appropriate and cost-effective clinical staffing. Shift Optimizer addresses fluctuations in needs, improves productivity and reduces liability risks, ultimately helping improve care models. Our technology provides time-saving ways to enhance workplace productivity. Shift Optimizer helps you manage your clinical workforce more effectively by arming your front-line leaders, such as charge nurses, with the information they need to make staffing decisions, and providing real-time visibility into productivity performance.