Strategic partnerships drive disciplined growth decisions
Health systems cannot treat partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions as isolated transactions.
The market is rewarding discipline, not volume
In a market where megadeals have slowed and margins remain tight, leaders need stronger early-stage judgment, clearer valuation logic and a more practical path from transaction intent to integrated performance.
Vizient helps leaders evaluate, execute, and integrate strategic deals with the market intelligence, financial rigor, and healthcare advisory depth required to strengthen market position and build resilience under pressure.
In practice
What better partnership strategy makes possible
Build partnerships that endure
Intentional planning, alignment validation, and durable structures transform partnerships from fragile agreements into lasting strategic value.
Achieve sustainable integration
Trust-based integration transforms fragmented organizations into unified systems that consistently deliver value through clarity, accountability, and purposeful alignment.
Health system M&A activity today is being driven by necessity and choice: necessity driven by distress, and choice by the desire to proactively reposition an organization.
Deal complexity demands strategic discipline
Deal value rises while megadeals decline and distressed assets reshape the market, making partnership strategy essential for sustainable integration success.
U.S. overall healthcare deal value
Estimated for 2024-2025
Decline in megadeals
In 2025, transactions that occurred often involved distressed assets, with deal revenue falling nearly half year-over-year and megadeals over $1 billion declining more than 60%.
PRODUCTS
The capabilities behind the solution
Strategic M&A advisory
Evaluate and structure transactions with healthcare-specific strategic guidance rather than generic deal logic.
Partnership strategy consulting
Build partnerships that are driven by solid strategic and financial principles.
Vizient Networks
20+ function-based executive networks that connect you with your peers for best-practice sharing, networking and solving real world problems.
Strategy Intelligence
Use market and service line intelligence to evaluate where partnerships and investments create the strongest strategic return.
Expertise
Transform complexity into confident decisions
Bring advisory expertise, market intelligence, and financial discipline into early transaction choices so leaders move forward with more confidence and less guesswork.
Strategy
Treat integration as a strategic capability
Integration is not just a post-close task. It is an ongoing discipline that creates alignment, transparency, and accountability whenever organizations need to unlock greater value together.
Data
Invest where growth creates the strongest return
Use market demand, service line analytics, and financial insight to identify where partnerships, ambulatory expansion, or acquisitions create durable advantage.
Assess your organization
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.