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Three Things Board Members Should Know When Attending Rating Agency Meetings
December 6, 2023

How can board members play a helpful role in rating agency meetings if they are invited to attend? Here are three ways in which board members can add value to the rating presentation... read more

Workforce management and culture
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Letting Go of Past Prized Practices: Making Meaningful Change in Healthcare
November 30, 2023

To address the struggles in healthcare, healthcare organizations must be willing to shift their mindset, challenge the status quo of old practices and embrace meaningful change... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
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Courageous Conversations: Fostering Meaningful Dialogue About Quality End-of-Life Care
November 3, 2023

Vizient’s Nicole Spatafora, assistant vice president, performance improvement programs, offers key takeaways for healthcare organizations when conversing with patients about palliative care... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
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Promoting Chief Nurse Executives’ Self-care Improves Overall Staff Wellbeing
October 27, 2023

Healthcare organizations can create larger workforce impacts by ensuring wellness starts at the top with proactive management of psychological hazards and job remodeling to encourage chief nurse exec... read more

Workforce management and culture
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Building a Successful Strategy to Embrace Advanced Practice Providers
September 25, 2023

To celebrate National Advanced Practice Providers Week (APPs), Vizient AVP of Clinical Team Insights Christen Hunt outlines the steps necessary to build a successful APP workforce strategy... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
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Patient at the center: Pursuit of unparalleled safety, quality, service and innovation in healthcare
September 20, 2023

Houston Methodist Baytown CEO shares his organization’s journey in their targeted improvements — using Vizient’s Quality and Accountable Study as a North Star — to rise from No. 104 to No. 2 in the r... read more

Workforce management and culture
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High reliability – what is it and where do we go from here?
September 18, 2023

Vizient Executive Principal Allan Frankel discusses high reliability—what it is and how Vizient can help healthcare providers on their journey—in a recent interview with Healthcare Innovation at the ... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Workforce management and culture
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Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now
September 8, 2023

Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But figh... read more

Workforce management and culture
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Looking Ahead at Workforce Needs to Care for the Patient of the Future
August 25, 2023

Caring for the patient of the future requires building a workforce with the right mix of skills, roles and functions to tackle the growing list of drivers upending healthcare. These include an increa... read more

Workforce management and culture
Clinical operations and quality
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Back to “Rule”: Key Inpatient Prospective Payment System Policies Affecting Hospitals
August 24, 2023

As healthcare providers prepare for FY 2024, Vizient’s Emily Jones and Jenna Stern outline what hospitals need to know about the FY 2024 IPPS final rule changes... read more

Financial sustainability
Workforce management and culture
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Benefits of Launching Direct-to-Employer Services to Your Health System Employees
August 22, 2023

Advantages to testing Direct-to-Employer offerings internally provide healthcare organizations valuable, transferable insights on process, structures, implementation and scalability that will build t... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
Workforce management and culture