June 2023

Vizient gains better understanding about the service line structures of member organizations through recent survey.

With the increasing shift of treatment from inpatient to outpatient settings, come questions about which medications can safely be used at alternate sites of care facilities. The new Vizient Pharmacy Site of Care Database can help answer those questions.

The 2023 Impact of Change Forecast projects hospital capacity challenges into the next decade, while pharmaceutical and technological advancements will continue to push care delivery, including bariatric surgery, to outpatient status and sites.

When a healthcare organization’s workplace culture is toxic, patient safety is at risk. But via LENS, a web-based tool with real-time communication, hospitals have found the power to bring high reliability concepts to life and shape organizational culture.

Using her superpower — overcoming adversity — former OB-GYN hospitalist and physician advisor Dr. Renée Allen guides healthcare systems through workforce and financial challenges with care transition, optimization and denials management solutions.

From better utilizing Advanced Provider Providers to enabling the newest nurses entering the field, Vizient is focused on creating strategies to help hospitals attract, support and retain staff through insights and collaborative networking.

Vizient Executive Principals Michael Leonard and Allan Frankel began their career as anesthesiologists, but tragic circumstances changed their lives in ways they hadn’t anticipated. Now, they help hospitals improve patient care through high reliability.