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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Four Ways Clinical Leaders Can Strengthen Patient Safety Through Suicide Risk and Prevention Safeguards
Tragically, suicide is a serious public health problem that impacts millions of lives each year. Patient safety in health care settings is a core responsibility, and suicide risk and prevention are widely recognized as critical components of patient safety...
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Five Strategies to Implement Now to Support Your Hospital’s Newly Licensed Nurses
Throughout the country, nursing vacancies are at an all-time high. Many hospitals and health care organizations are filling these vacancies by hiring a record number of newly licensed nurses (NLNs). As we navigate nursing workforce challenges, organization...
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The Chicken and the Egg: The Connection Between Health Literacy and Health Equity
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is a long-debated question for which there is not necessarily a right or wrong answer. You cannot have one without the other. So why not consider the chicken and the egg? In health care, a similar analogy can ...
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Three Steps to Navigate the Perfect Storm of Clinical Workforce Shortages
The current workforce shortage may feel familiar, but that doesn’t mean answers are easy or obvious. Navigating the storm requires a comprehensive approach with a long-term mindset around three main components: Recruit, Retain, Reimagine.
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Creating the Optimal Environment for Clinical Team Success
You may have whiplash from the wide array of headlines about the clinical workforce over the past 18 months. It seems like every day we hear of the challenges clinicians face—lack of alignment and engagement with hospital and health system strategy and goa...
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Ensuring a Bright Future: 3 Ways Hospital Leaders Can Create a Culture to Support Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practiceensures thatwe are using the best approaches to care that improve patient outcomes and lower health care costs.With the proper support from health care leaders to create a culture that supports evidence-based practice, the next gener...
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Hospital Adoption of Artificial Intelligence: It’s about the timing and the timing is now
Timing is everything. You have to know just the right time to catch the wave.In my 26+ year career at Vizient, I have evaluated hundreds of new technologies that have been introduced into health care—some were good; some were bad. But I haven’t used words ...
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The Critical Role of the Nurse-Physician Dyad on Patient Safety and Compliance
Patients rely on those taking care of them to communicate and collaborate as they manage their care to help ensure the best possible outcome and quick recovery. The best way to do that is by using a nurse-physician dyad—a leadership model incorporating the...
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Changing the Conversation: Three Considerations to Strengthen Hospital Clinician Engagement and Retention
Back in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, the needs of our nation’s clinical care teams looked much different than they do today. Here are threeprominent considerations, which as part of an organization’s broader workforce strategy, can help she...