Vizient Member Networks Spring Meeting – Unlocking Access, Advancing Care - From Measures to Margins

Nashville, TN US
May 5, 2026

This interprofessional capstone session focuses on health system strategies to address access and capacity challenges across the continuum of care. Participants will examine how organizations are redesigning ambulatory, acute, virtual, and home-based care models—leveraging data, technology, workforce redesign, and community partnerships—to better align demand with the appropriate setting of care while maintaining safety, quality, and patient experience. The session emphasizes practical, leader-ready approaches for scaling innovation and sustaining performance amid ongoing operational and financial pressures.

 

Target Audience

  • Healthcare Quality Professionals
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:  

 

 

1.    Describe key drivers of access and capacity constraints and summarize implications for patient experience, safety, quality outcomes, workforce sustainability, and affordability.
2.    Identify at least three scalable strategies to expand capacity across the continuum (e.g., ambulatory redesign, hospital-at-home/home-based care, AI-enabled triage/decision support, community partnerships) and select appropriate use cases based on patient and system needs.
3.    Outline governance and measurement approaches that support reliable, high-quality care across evolving sites of care, including monitoring of outcomes, safety, and patient experience.
 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 1.50 General CE - Attendance
Course opens: 
05/05/2026
Course expires: 
07/04/2026
Event starts: 
05/05/2026 - 10:30am CDT
Event ends: 
05/05/2026 - 12:00pm CDT
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Loews Hotel
2100 West End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
United States

First Name

Last Name

 

Credentials

Title

Employer/Company

From Measure to Margins – 1.50 contact hours

Shephali

Wulff

Speaker/Presenter

DO

Chief Quality Officer

SSM Health

Victor

Radina

Speaker/Presenter

 

Chief Development Officer

SSM Health

Gregg

Mylin

Speaker/Presenter

 

System VP Managed Care and Payer Strategy

SSM Health

Christen

Hunt

Speaker/Presenter

DNP, MBA, FNP-C, CPNP-AC

Senior Vice President, Clinical Consulting

Kaufman Hall

Brian

Ball

Speaker/Presenter

 

Senior Vice President, Consulting

Kaufman Hall

Planners


Sarah Tharp, MBA, MSN, RN, CPHQ
Senior Network Director
Vizient, Inc.

David Levine, MD, FACEP
SVP & Chief Medical Officer
Vizient, Inc.

Rebecca Easterwood
Sr. CE Programs Manager              
Vizient, Inc.
 
Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP
Director, Continuing Education       
Vizient, Inc.
 

DISCLOSURE
As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
 
Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
 
 
 
Statement of Content Validity
 
Vizient, Inc. educational activities are intended to assist healthcare teams advance their professional responsibilities in accordance with the definition of continuing education. It is the policy of Vizient, Inc. to review and ensure that all content and recommendations for patient care within accredited CE is evidenced-based, based on current science and clinical reasoning while ensuring the content is fair and balanced. All recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Vizient, Inc. does not permit accredited continuing education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
 
Disclaimer
The education provided through this activity is for continuing education purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty/presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vizient, Inc.
Disclosure Statements
 
Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships
 
None of the planners, faculty, or others in a position to control content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
 

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 
 
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive a maximum of 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
 
 
 
 
Designation Statement(s)
 

Nurses (CNE)

This activity is designated for 1.50 contact hours.
 
 
Physicians (CME)
 
Vizient, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Healthcare Quality Professionals (CPHQ)
 
This activity is approved by NAHQ® for 1.50 CPHQ CE credits.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals (General CE Credit)
 
Vizient, Inc. will award all other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity a Certificate of Participation. Various state license boards and credentialing bodies accept certificates of participation from accredited CE activities to meet CE requirements for license renewals and re-certification. It is the responsibility of the participant to contact their state licensing board and/or certifying body for verification on credit eligibility reciprocity.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 ANCC
  • 1.50 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
  • 1.50 General CE - Attendance
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