- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Steps to Improve Supply Utilization With Clinicians
By taking actions that are within your control, you can help your hospital with supply costs, waste reduction, and bolstering human and environmental health.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Lost Too Soon: Learning How to Help Those with Dementia or Other Brain Illness
Living with loved ones who have dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or other brain illness can be a scary time. In honor of National Alzheimer and Brain Awareness Month, Marilyn Sherrill shares her personal experiences to offer hope.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Future Hospital or Hospital of the Future? Incorporating Inclusion and Diversity for Greater Health Equity
Whether incorporating non-Western modalities or championing equitable access to facilities and treatments, the future of healthcare isn’t about retrofitting hospitals — it’s about reimagining their capabilities.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
- Operations & Quality
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.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
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.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
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 systems and the biggest cost center.
- Clinical
Patient Transitions: How Can Healthcare Systems Do Better?
Margaret Rudisill offers perspectives from Vizient’s Improvement Collaborative on how to improve patient transitions of care from a hospital to post-acute care.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Evaluating the Benefits, Drawbacks of Reusable vs. Single-use Endoscopes
It can be tricky for clinicians and supply chain leaders to determine whether (and in what cases) to select reusable or single-use endoscopes – but looking at the clinical, environmental, financial and operational impacts of each can help.
- Clinical
Making the Most of Healthcare Performance Improvement Efforts
Shannon Hale offers insights on how healthcare organizations can best improve their performance improvement processes and the care they provide – on a continuous basis.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
Registered Dietitians Boost Patient Outcomes — and Providers’ Financial Health
An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of treatment — and that’s exactly why RDs play an important role in the continuum of care.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Addressing the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis with Integrated Behavioral Health
There is work underway that will begin to mitigate inpatient demand for pediatric behavioral health services later in the decade and drive steady outpatient growth across multiple sites. This includes the continued integration of behavioral health services...
- Clinical
Prepare Now for the Next Respiratory Season
Respiratory illness season has always been a challenge for healthcare organizations with additional admitted patients who require isolation, respiratory support, and at times intensive care unit beds.
- Clinical
Gravity, Sand and a Financial Reckoning
Did you ever wonder why nautical speed is measured in knots rather than miles or kilometers per hour?
- Clinical
Will 2023 Be the Year That You Fully Embrace Value-Based Care?
Learn why value-based care is a vital part of addressing challenges in the healthcare marketplace and what your organization needs to succeed in 2023.
- Clinical
College Basketball and National Health System Design
In his latest blog posting entitled "College Basketball and National Health System Design” Vizient Research Institute executive director Tom Robertson describes an engaging exercise shared with audiences nationwide during 2022.
- Clinical
Tips for Keeping Kidneys Healthy During the Holidays
Michael McCann and Walter Valliere outline the risk factors of chronic kidney disease and how people can make healthy lifestyle choices during the holidays and year-round to improve renal health.
- Clinical
Seasickness, Service Disparities, and Healthcare Pricing
Reflections on the moral distress of medical providers when faced with the disparities in access to and affordability of lifesaving or life-changing medical services for different patient populations.
- Clinical
Maximizing Value: Establishing a Hospital Clinical Laboratory Utilization Committee
There’s a significant opportunity for today’s hospital laboratory professionals to refocus the value they bring to their organizations beyond maintaining test quality and fulfilling laboratory orders. Establishing a Clinical Laboratory Utilization Committe...
- Clinical
Supporting the Whole Nurse: 3 Ways to Ensure Your Hospital’s Nurse Residency Program is Meeting Nurses’ Needs
Many organizations have committed to helping newly licensed nurses transition from students to professionals via nurse residency programs. These programs offer education to supplement knowledge gaps, but is that enough?
- Clinical
Workplace Violence: Three Ways to Improve Hospital Employees’ Safety
Statistics show that healthcare workers are at an increased risk for violence and that this has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every employee has the right to go to work and be safe. Here are three proven strategies to improve workplace saf...
- Clinical
Let’s Shine a Light on the Fight Against Alzheimer’s Today and Every Day
June 21 marks the summer solstice and the longest day of the year. While you might be tempted to mark the beginning of summer with a cookout or dip in the pool, consider joining the thousands from across the world who will use the longest day to fight the ...
- Clinical
Growth in Digital Technologies Present Opportunities to Improve Access to Behavioral Health Care
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been explosion of digital technologies in the behavioral health space. The growth of these technologies has the potential to transform the care paradigm and increase access to underserved populations, but it’s not with...
- Clinical
To Better Community Health Outcomes, Apply Clinical Expertise to Local Food Pantries
Considering the connection between food insecurity and obesity, it’s imperative that clinicians partner with food pantries tohelp identify high-risk populations and leadimprovements in health outcomes.
- Clinical
Celebrating Nurses and 20 Years of Nurse Residency Program Success
Members of the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program™ came together to network with their peers, share strategies for success and gain new insights on issues that are critical to nursing care in today’s rapidly changing health care environment. Just days aw...