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Premier healthcare alliance recognizes nation's top hospitals for achieving superior supply expense performance
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (June 17, 2009) – The Premier healthcare alliance's Purchasing Partners division today recognized 26 alliance members as winners of its second annual Supply Chain Excellence Award. Premier honored the winners – selected from its more than 2,100 eligible hospitals nationwide – at the 2009 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.
Premier's Supply Chain Excellence Award is given to the nation's top hospitals achieving superior supply expense performance as measured by Premier's recently upgraded SupplyFocus™, the industry's largest comparative database of operational and supply chain cost information for acute care hospitals. Winners were identified using four industry standard supply expense ratios and a case-mix-index-based peer grouping methodology to ensure that organizations of diverse sizes and complexity were considered equally.
"The Supply Chain Excellence Award celebrates the successes of our top performers while encouraging the sharing of best practices and breakthrough ideas to the benefit of the Premier alliance," said Mike Alkire, president of Premier Purchasing Partners. "The award supports the alliance and its efforts to improve the quality and cost of the care it offers."
To be eligible, each organization had to submit four quarters of calendar 2008 data to SupplyFocus by April 30, 2009. With 40 indicators measuring and trending performance in cost and operations, SupplyFocus enables hospitals to compare supply expense performance to that of similar facilities and easily identify improvement opportunities.
2009 Supply Chain Excellence winners are:
- Bayfront Medical Center of Florida
- Bon Secours Community Hospital of New York
- Cabell Huntington Hospital Inc. of West Virginia
- Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital of New Mexico
- Detroit Medical Center of Michigan
- Detroit Receiving & University Health Center of Michigan
- DMC Surgery Hospital of Michigan
- Espanola General Hospital of New Mexico
- Genesis Medical Center - De Witt Campus of Iowa
- Greene Memorial Hospital Inc. of Ohio
- Henry Ford Health System of Michigan
- Henry Ford Hospital of Michigan
- Hutzel Hospital of Michigan
- Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital of Kentucky
- Mercy Hospital - Western Hills of Ohio
- Mercy Hospital Fairfield of Ohio
- Northridge Hospital Medical Center – Roscoe of California
- Page Hospital of Arizona
- Sinai-Grace Hospital of Michigan
- Socorro General Hospital of New Mexico
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare of Kentucky
- St. Elizabeth Medical Center Grant Co. of Kentucky
- St. Mary's Medical Center of Campbell County of Tennessee
- Union Hospital of Maryland
- University of Louisville Hospital of Kentucky
- Weirton Medical Center of West Virginia
For more information, please visit: https://premierinc.com/about/news/awards/index.jsp.
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals
and 80,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead
the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals,
health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nation's most
comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and
operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping
deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked with the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National
Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in
Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in
Washington.
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