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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. https://premierinc.com. Stay connected with Premier on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.