IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient, Inc. continues its work to assist minority business owners by again collaborating with the Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance (HSDA), Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College (Tuck) and Novant Health to offer Building a High-Performing Minority Business. This executive training program is specifically designed for owners of minority owned businesses in the health care industry. The program will be held November 13–18, 2016 at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
“The health care supply chain has unique complexities that can be daunting even for larger suppliers. For minority-owned suppliers, who possess the needed product or service expertise but tend to be smaller in scale, the challenge is often greater. This executive training program helps minority business owners better understand the industry and levels the playing field,” said Mark Cartwright, senior director of supplier diversity at Vizient. “This is our third year collaborating to provide this program, and we are excited to enable the education, training and the important network connections to help them be successful.”
The program’s curriculum has been designed by Tuck, Novant Health, Vizient and HSDA to increase the participant’s skills in the areas of:
- Strategy development and implementation
- Analysis of financial statements
- Managing the “customer asset”
- Refining the management structure
- Assessing operations
As part of Vizient’s support of Building a High-Performing Minority Business, and its overall commitment to increasing the level of diversity among suppliers in the health care industry, the company is offering partial scholarships in conjunction with the HSDA for the five day program. Those applicants interested in a scholarship should indicate such when registering for the program. Program registrations are being accepted now and the application is accessible here.
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the country, provides innovative data-driven solutions, expertise and collaborative opportunities that lead to improved patient outcomes and lower costs. Vizient serves a diverse membership and customer base which includes academic medical centers, pediatric facilities, community hospitals, integrated health delivery networks and non-acute health care providers and represents almost $100 billion in annual purchasing volume. The Vizient brand identity represents the integration of VHA Inc., University HealthSystem Consortium and Novation, which combined in 2015, as well as the recently acquired MedAssets’ Spend and Clinical Resource Management (SCM) segment, which includes Sg2. In 2016, Vizient received a World’s Most Ethical Company designation from the Ethisphere Institute. Vizient headquarters is based in Irving, Texas, with locations in Chicago and other cities across the United States. Please visit www.vizientinc.com as well as our newsroom, blog, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube pages for more information about the company.
