Performance depends on the workforce behind it. Optimize both.
High workforce performance requires disciplined alignment of staffing, productivity, leadership, and care team design across the enterprise.
Strengthen workforce strategy across your enterprise
Health systems today are expected to expand access, improve productivity, and sustain workforce stability, all while labor constraints and financial pressure intensify. But when staffing, provider deployment, leadership development, and retention efforts lack coordination, capacity suffers, productivity declines, and labor investments underperform.
Vizient combines data, expertise, and strategic insight to optimize workforce performance across the enterprise—strengthening capacity, improving productivity, and increasing the return on every labor investment.
In practice
How leading systems improve workforce effectiveness
Workforce productivity and operational design
Sustainable workforce productivity starts with redesigning systems — not reducing the people working within them.
Leadership design and workforce stability
Strengthen labor stability by redesigning leadership structures, supporting frontline managers, and aligning workforce strategy to retention, quality, and long-term performance.
Nurse development and workforce resilience
Evidence-based residency and leadership programs build competence, lower turnover, and deliver measurable financial returns.
The most significant constraint on healthcare performance today is not capital, technology, or demand—it is workforce stability.
Talent and labor insights backed by scale
Vizient combines analytics, benchmarking, and development programs to improve workforce strategy and execution across the enterprise.
Operational Data Base participants
Comparative workforce and operational benchmarks help leaders identify staffing variances, productivity gaps, and performance improvement opportunities.
Organizations in the Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program
Structured development programs accelerate workforce readiness and strengthen retention from day one.
Organizations using SCORE engagement and culture assessments
Workforce engagement and culture insights help organizations build stronger leadership, retention, and team performance.
Care Reliability
Deliver reliable care, every shift
Labor Economics
Protect margin from labor risk
Labor is a health system’s largest and most volatile expense. Vizient brings data-driven insight to benchmark workforce spend, reduce reliance on contract labor, and align staffing strategies with financial performance—protecting margins without compromising care quality.
Talent Advantage
Compete for talent with a long-term advantage
Workforce performance starts before day one. Vizient helps organizations anticipate workforce shifts, strengthen recruitment and retention strategies, and invest in workforce readiness—turning talent from a constraint into a sustained competitive advantage.
Assess your organization
See your organization's performance in perspective
See how you compare and where to focus next.
Solutions
The solutions that strengthen every dimension of workforce performance
Care team capacity optimization
Expand care team capacity with smarter design.
Leadership and culture effectiveness
Transform culture into competitive advantage.
Nurse workforce optimization
Stabilize nurse retention and engagement.
Physician productivity and alignment
Align physician enterprise performance with strategy.
Workforce retention and engagement
Connect workforce strategy to measurable performance.