August 2, 2022 – Vizient announced it has acquired Safe & Reliable Healthcare, a leading provider of high reliability services, with more than a decade of proven experience in transforming cultures to create resilience, enhance workforce engagement and accountability, and help healthcare organizations deliver consistently safer and more reliable patient care.
Through this acquisition, Vizient has integrated the expertise and offerings of both organizations to create the most comprehensive high reliability offering in the industry that will continue under the name Vizient Safe and Reliable Healthcare. This positions Vizient as the partner of choice in transforming healthcare organizations by eliminating variation while improving quality and culture.
The Vizient Safe and Reliable Healthcare solution is grounded in our Framework for High Reliability Healthcare, an actionable roadmap for organizations based on their high reliability aspirations and maturity progression. The Framework helps transform cultures by developing leaders and teams, building improvement and sustainability infrastructures, and driving measurable clinical, operational and cultural improvement.
With our integrated approach, providers benefit from:
- High reliability consulting and Academy training designed to advance high reliability principles and system concepts among healthcare leaders and the workforce at large.
- SCORETM, an integrated culture survey measuring safety, resiliency and burnout. SCORE is statistically validated, a Tier-1 Leapfrog survey and satisfies Magnet requirements. SCORE contains unparalleled culture data points for analysis against clinical and operational measures.
- Learning and Engagement System (LENSTM), an electronic visual management and communication platform, giving leaders and front-line workers voice, visibility and ownership into performance towards goals, issues tracking and resolution and celebration of achievements.
- A comprehensive approach to building system-wide sustainable improvement infrastructures through management systems to achieve and sustain performance goals.
- Integrating SCORE data with Vizient’s industry-leading repository of clinical and operational data to generate unique insights into the correlations between culture and outcomes.