- Operations & Quality
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now
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 fighting back is the hospital job of the moment.
- Clinical
- Data & Analytics
- Operations & Quality
Looking Ahead at Workforce Needs to Care for the Patient of the Future
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 increasingly older and more diverse population, navigating the ...
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Back to “Rule”: Key Inpatient Prospective Payment System Policies Affecting Hospitals
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.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Benefits of Launching Direct-to-Employer Services to Your Health System Employees
Advantages to testing Direct-to-Employer offerings internally provide healthcare organizations valuable, transferable insights on process, structures, implementation and scalability that will build toward external success.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Struggles with Direct-to-Employer Engagement and What Health Systems Can Learn from the Pockets of Success
While some health systems have struggled to fully adopt direct-to-employer opportunities, Joe Maher shares insights from those who are finding success.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Sustainability is Key to Healthcare Performance Improvement
Through recent longitudinal insights on mortality, readmission and length of stay, Vizient’s Performance Improvement Program team shares successful strategies and lessons learned to help healthcare organizations achieve lasting improvements.
- Operations & Quality
- Clinical
Helping Mothers Navigate Postpartum Depression: Interventions for Healthcare Organizations
In support of the health and wellbeing of mothers, Christina Driskill with Vizient’s Patient Safety Organization offers interventions that organizations can implement to create a healthy environment and support postpartum moms.
- Operations & Quality
Health Systems Can’t Afford to Neglect New Nurses
Workforce shortages and increased workloads have led to burnout and high turnover among healthcare staff, especially nurses. As Vizient CEO Byron Jobe writes, nurse retention programs are a proven way for providers to improve turnover rates and reduce cost...
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Making Care Primary Model Overview
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces multi-state initiative to support primary care practices with varying levels of value-based care experience.
- Operations & Quality
America’s Hospitals Need a Makeover
In an environment unlike anything any of us have experienced, regaining financial equilibrium will require a comprehensive view of our organizations and environment as well as an openness to an outcome in which we do things very differently.
- 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.
- Operations & Quality
Healthcare’s Wicked Problems
Ken Kaufman frames some of healthcare’s wicked problems and discusses how they affect various stakeholders.
- 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.
- Operations & Quality
Is the Traditional Hospital Strategy Aging Out?
All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever.
- Operations & Quality
Improving Your Hospital Profile with National Quality Scorecards
A perspective on why hospital public and private quality ratings are important and steps to improve both public perception and patient outcomes.
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Three Years In – and the End of the PHE Declaration is in Sight
After three years of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency determination, Emily Jones outlines what healthcare providers need to know about deadlines, flexibilities, and the path ahead.
- Operations & Quality
Why Start Now? Care at Home Provides Value Beyond Cost Savings
As healthcare organizations consider care at home options, Brianna Motley explains the value of starting with less complex types of care.
- Operations & Quality
Health Heavy Omnibus Bill Closes Out 117th Congress While the 118th Congress Faces Uncertain Future and Possible Gridlock
Steve Rixen outlines the biggest impact on healthcare providers of the recent passing of the $1.7 trillion omnibus.
- Operations & Quality
Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Flexibilities Changes
Emily Jones details recent final rulings by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to updates to the Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System.
- Operations & Quality
Three Steps to Maximize Effective Strategy Deployment in your Healthcare Organization
Leveraging insights from the Japanese strategic planning method known as “Hoshin Kanri,” here are three steps to maximize the effectiveness of strategy deployment in your healthcare organization.
- Operations & Quality
Empathetic and Effective Response to Sentinel Events and Root Cause Analysis
Vizient’s Patient Safety Organization (PSO) recently convened experts across the nation to identify leading practices to support an empathetic, effective and sustainable hospital response after a sentinel event.
- Operations & Quality
Look Beyond MSSP Policy Changes for Long-term Success in Value-Based Care
CMS changes to the largest alternative payment model, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, mean new considerations for value-based care strategies.
- Operations & Quality
Divided Government in Washington? Political Fights Ahead, but Areas of Agreement Not Impossible to Imagine
A look at what to expect in the November elections, and what it may mean for providers and health policy in the next Congress.