August 9, 2023 – Vizient announced it has published its annual corporate responsibility report detailing its focus on driving positive impacts across three interconnected pillars – people, places, and planet – by leveraging its unique position in the healthcare industry to drive sustainability throughout the healthcare sector.
Notable accomplishments across the people, places and planet pillars in this year’s report include:
- Signed the White House and Health and Human Services Climate Pledge to achieve net zero Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
- Collected waste attributes for all 500 million products contracted with Vizient to advance our environmentally sustainable sourcing offerings.
- Elevated chemical transparency for providers with 98% of contracted suppliers reporting on all medical-surgical products.
- Helped to prevent 27,024 emergency department revisits in 2022 through our Health Equity Performance Improvement Collaborative.
- Formally launched a Community Contracting program to uplift local and diverse suppliers in four U.S. geographies.
- Closed the gender gap around experiences of diversity and inclusion within our organization and made progress toward closing experience gaps for Asian, Black, and Hispanic/Latinx employees.
- Empowered 55% of our employees to volunteer, placing us in the top 5% among industry peers.
- Diverted 142.8 tons of office furniture and supplies from landfill through reusing, recycling, refurbishing, and donating hundreds of items to local nonprofits across Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville and Denver