Evolve to Excel

December 18, 2013

VUMC positioned to meet challenges ahead: Balser

“The downsizing effort is over.” With those words, Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, announced Wednesday that workforce reduction efforts announced in September at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are completed.

By Bill Snyder
Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
November 7, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Oftentimes, holding firm to core principles and values anchors us and assures long-term success during periods of rapid change.

By VUMC News and Communications
Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
September 19, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

We are — at our core — a place that cares about people. That caring attitude is reflected in how we “are” with one another, and also with our patients and students.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 29, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

Over the last several weeks, my comments about our cost reduction efforts have been extensive, and as a result, very public.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 29, 2013

Gathering highlights proposed E2E changes

As part of the Evolve to Excel (E2E) operational change initiative, senior leadership from across Vanderbilt University Medical Center gathered last week for an intensive, daylong session to carefully evaluate proposals for operational change brought forth from throughout the organization.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 15, 2013

Creativity helps spur VUMC operational savings

As Vanderbilt University Medical Center navigates large-scale operational change through Evolve to Excel (E2E) a number of creative and substantive cost savings initiatives have already been identified. The Medical Center’s first priority remains to achieve savings through efforts that focus on costs associated with supplies and other non-labor expenses.

By John Howser
August 9, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

By VUMC News and Communications
August 8, 2013

Advisory council brought up to speed on E2E

The way David Posch, CEO of Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics, described the health care industry’s current landscape to members of the Patient and Family Advisory Council at the group’s August meeting Tuesday night was by quoting the opening line of Charles Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities” — “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
By Nancy Humphrey
August 1, 2013

E2E update: VUMC operational efficiency effort making strides

Evolve to Excel (E2E), a comprehensive initiative designed to strengthen operational practices throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center to ensure long-term success of the organization, is moving ahead.
By Nancy Humphrey
July 18, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs

By Doug Campbell
June 20, 2013

Initiative to enhance operational practices

With a desire toward process improvement that will result in lasting change, and in response to ongoing financial pressures from declining reimbursements for the treatment of Medicare and Medicaid patients along with reductions to federal research funding due to the nation’s ballooning deficit, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is embarking on a comprehensive program designed to sharpen operational practices throughout the institution to better meet the economic realities facing the future of health care delivery and research.
By John Howser