Improve care delivery across the care continuum
Data analytics, technology and innovative governance models can help providers deliver superior care to patients beyond the four walls of the hospital.
UNC Health’s process for preference item evaluation
Strategic evaluation of advanced energy and smoke evacuation
UNC enlisted the help of Vizient to enhance their product evaluation and contracting processes, which led to stabilized financial value and physician-led clinical consistency for advanced energy and smoke evacuation categories.
Dartmouth Health achieves flawless Joint Commission Survey
Strategic partnership boosts compliance and excellence
Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics partnered with Vizient to standardize operations and enhance patient care across 93 departments. They achieved compliance excellence, readiness for Joint Commission surveys, and improved safety, quality and financial performance through innovative staff training and a culture of continuous improvement.
Embracing a cross-department partnership between the CMO and CFO
The academic healthcare system improves quality scores, finances and culture
Leaders at UCI Health reached out to Vizient for help addressing their case mix index. The team provided process changes and education that transformed productivity and led to a more collaborative approach. As a result, the partnership has expanded to address population health, value-based care and improvements to outpatient clinical documentation.
RUSH reduces readmission rates by applying collaboration, leading strategies and analytics
Benchmarking and collaboration help RUSH reduce readmission rates
Rush University System for Health partners with Vizient in its efforts to reduce readmission rates. RUSH uses the Clinical Data Base to measure their performance and participates in the Performance Improvement Stroke Collaborative and High Utilizer Collaborative. During a 12-month period, the collaborative realized 27 fewer readmissions, avoiding an estimated $694,000 of potential costs.
Yale New Haven Health System leads a successful supplier transition during COVID-19
Transforming its supply chain and transitioning suppliers in the pandemic
Lori Lee, senior vice president of clinical operations, took the helm of Yale New Haven Health System's supply chain and began a distributor transition during the height of COVID with Vizient leading the RFP process.
Forward-thinking leadership prevents shortages of critical drugs and medical supplies
Ochsner Health accesses critical supplies and medications during the pandemic
Under the leadership of Debbie Simonson, system vice president of pharmacy services, Ochsner Health has built-in resiliency into its supply chain to weather disruptions. Simonson and the Ochsner team had a plan in place for accessing these medications to meet exploding demand.
Identify systemwide quality improvement priorities by unifying disparate clinical data
Novant Health enhances systemwide quality control
Implementing a single data source across its 15 medical centers gave facility and system leaders the insights needed to implement and sustain quality improvements.
A large academic health system aligns their diverse medical facilities to improve care delivery
Aligning cost and quality strategies systemwide for market growth
Initially each facility maintained services and analytics used to guide goal planning and performance improvement independently. After expanding their use of the Vizient clinical and operational analytics, advisory and group purchasing organization services the health system quickly generated efficiencies and savings.
Nurse residency program increases nurse retention by improving transition to practice
NYC Health + Hospitals takes a comprehensive approach to support first-year nurses
NYC Health + Hospitals partnered with Vizient to implement residency program addressing high nurse turnover rates. The program aimed to provide the clinical and emotional support from leadership that new nurses needed. By scaling up the program, the health system retained more nurses and reduced turnover rates, resulting in significant cost savings and improved patient care. The success of the program has even attracted nurses from outside to join the system.
Collaboration, leadership and data improve patient care
UCLA Health’s leadership ensures continuous, sustained improvement
UCLA Health has a unified trio of leaders who have been guiding the organization to repeated successes in their journey of continuous, sustained improvement since 2014. This trio relies on a framework to facilitate positive change called MOVERS which taps into their organizational culture unifies their teams around a systemwide quality improvement effort.
Evolving a healthcare strategic partnership
Using data and repeatable processes to drive savings
Baptist Memorial Health Care partnered with Vizient beyond its original GPO contract to a total performance management agreement. The health system is on track to achieve the goal of $73 million in cost savings and added revenue across workforce, pharmacy, supply chain and purchased services opportunities.
A data-driven approach to capacity management
A data-driven approach to capacity management
Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California embarked on a multiyear initiative to optimize the movement of patients through its facilities; known simply as patient flow. Thanks to staff-wide commitment — and with the valued assistance of Vizient data and analytics tools — the length of hospital stays has been significantly reduced.
New clinical pathway for hip fractures streamlines processes and improves care across 12 hospitals
Sentara Healthcare improves care quality and hospital flow for patients with hip fractures
Sentara Healthcare developed a new clinical pathway to streamline hip fracture care that achieves four primary goals: Get the patient into surgery as quickly as possible, focus on early mobility and ambulating, reduce dependence on opioids and discharge patients to the appropriate care setting.
How leaders at an academic medical center system use data to advance health equity
A data-driven approach to rise above health inequity
A large academic health system was working to create a more inclusive culture by providing education and training on diversity, equity and inclusion and appointing a vice president and chief health equity officer to advance health equity. The new leader participated in the Vizient Health Equity Strategy Accelerator and collaborated with peers from health systems around the country.
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We brought together CEOs from five health systems to share how they build a first-class culture by focusing on benchmarking, systemness, innovation and health equity.
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