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Data & Analytics
The Power of an Enterprise-wide, Data-driven Strategy

Health systems and providers continue to face ongoing challenges associated with delivering high-quality, cost-effective care while balancing decreasing reimbursements and new value-based payment mod... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Evaluating your Block Schedule: Dive Right In

Managing, let alone changing, your organization’s block schedule might feel as intimidating as the thought of diving with sharks. But don’t let it scare you; the benefits far exceed the risks. It’s t... read more

Supply Chain
Narrowing the Divide: How a Medical Director of Supply Chain Helps Bridge Gap Between Physicians and Supply Chain, Supporting Hospitals’ Value-Based Care Strategies

A growing number of hospitals and health systems are taking the critical step of engaging physicians in evaluating preference items to a new level by establishing a medical director of supply chain. ... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Addressing Social Determinants of Health During COVID-19 and Beyond: How to Find Your Organization’s Fit

We have seen the significant effects of COVID-19 on our country’s most vulnerable populations, amplifying existing health disparities. We have also seen hospitals and health systems continue and expa... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Preparing for an Offsite Accreditation Survey: Strategies for Success

The growing use of virtual technology during the COVID-19 pandemic is not just confined to advances in patient care via telemedicine. Companies also pivoted to virtual options to conduct business, in... read more

Supply Chain
Is Just in Time Just in Trouble?

During COVID-19, you’ve lived the stories and heard of others—hospitals reprocessed supplies marked “single use only.” Personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks and gloves were in extremely s... read more

Supply Chain
“Managing Up” in Health Care Supply Chain

Whether you are a new employee or a seasoned professional with a new boss, taking time to consider three elements of "managing up" can help you establish trust and create an optimal working... read more

Data & Analytics
CMS Updates its Star Ratings: A Simpler Methodological Approach Provides Clarity Needed to Drive Change
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by Beth Godsey, MSPA, MBA

Whether you are a hospital administrator, a physician, a nurse, or other member of your hospital’s family,you know well the true north of our daily purpose is to provide quality health care to patien... read more

Quality & Clinical Operations
Leadership Rounding: Shifting to a Tracer Approach for Regulatory Compliance

Are you a clinical leader, new accreditation professional or someone who is tired of performing the traditional “audit” to evaluate regulatory compliance? There has to be a better way, right? There i... read more

Supply Chain
Four Ways Hospital Supply Chain Leaders Can Get the Most Value from their GPO in the Facilities and Construction Space

As hospital supply chain departments evolve, they likely will have driven out most all operating expenses in the traditional spend categories. To continue to achieve the savings target supply chain d... read more