Ambulatory isn’t an extension. It's the future of your enterprise.

Care will continue to move beyond hospital walls. Health systems need structures designed to capture ambulatory growth, protect margins and drive results.

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Build your ambulatory enterprise

Ambulatory care is now the primary driver of health system growth. Yet many organizations remain structured around inpatient care, limiting their ability to scale effectively.

Building an ambulatory-forward enterprise requires more than expansion. It demands alignment across governance, operations and performance. Vizient brings together data, expertise and operational discipline so health systems can unlock growth, strengthen margins and compete with confidence.

In practice

Proven approaches across health systems

Backed by Vizient insights, health systems are transforming ambulatory into a coordinated enterprise—delivering measurable gains in growth, efficiency, and financial outcomes.

Governance and enterprise alignment

Aligned governance, strategy, and access to accelerate growth and improve systemwide performance.

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Ambulatory as core growth strategy

Shifted ambulatory from a feeder system to a core strategy, accelerating growth and strengthening market position.

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Access and capacity optimization

Used access metrics to expand capacity, improve throughput, and drive.

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Ambulatory care by itself is inherently lower cost. For leaders, the opportunity lies in building capacity, forming partnerships, and delivering meaningful patient experiences that earn loyalty and trust.

Ambulatory intelligence backed by scale

Vizient’s data, insight and Networks reach turn ambulatory strategy into measurable results.

1.1B

Outpatient encounters analyzed annually

Comprehensive ambulatory data enables precise decisions on growth, access, and performance.

$390B+

Annual spend visibility

Line-item analytics across supply and pharmacy spend strengthen cost control and margin performance.

17,000+

Healthcare leaders in Vizient Networks

Peer collaboration and shared insight accelerate enterprise transformation across ambulatory systems.

Access

Turn access into a growth engine

Elevate access beyond scheduling. Vizient optimizes capacity, coordinates demand across the enterprise, and expands reach to drive new patient volume and strengthen continuity of care.

Operations

Scale operations with consistency

Fragmented operations limit performance at scale. Vizient brings structure and standardization across ambulatory sites, improving throughput, reducing variation, and enabling consistency across the enterprise.

Spend

Strengthen margin with greater control

Ambulatory spend is often decentralized and difficult to manage. Vizient delivers visibility into cost drivers and variation, helping health systems optimize supply and pharmacy spend while protecting and improving margins.

Workforce and Quality

Support workforce stability

Sustained outcomes depend on a stable workforce and consistent quality. Vizient aligns staffing models, improves provider experience, and maintains high standards of care across the ambulatory enterprise.

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See your organization's performance in perspective

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