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Premier honors contracted suppliers whose performance exceeds member expectations
Fifteen companies receive Premier’s Pinnacle Award, 54 companies receive Performance Award recognition
Charlotte, N.C. (June 16, 2008) – The Premier healthcare alliance’s Purchasing Partners division last week recognized the winners of its third annual Pinnacle Award and Performance Award at the 2008 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference & Exhibition in Nashville, Tenn.
Premier’s Pinnacle and Performance Awards applaud the efforts of contracted suppliers in meeting or exceeding member healthcare organization service expectations. In selecting recipients, satisfaction and performance data are collected and scored over four successive calendar quarters. Feedback is provided during regular supplier business line reviews. Contracted suppliers scoring 95 percent or higher earn the Pinnacle Award; organizations scoring between 85 to 94 percent earn the Performance Award.
Premier Purchasing Partners President Mike Alkire said, “Premier’s Pinnacle and Performance Awards honor the select few suppliers that understand the importance of beneficial collaboration and striving for performance excellence. These companies are the standard bearers for all Premier contracted suppliers. We proudly honor these pacesetters as we work together to improve healthcare in our communities.”
The 15 2008 Pinnacle Award winners are Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.; Continental Mills; Edwards Life Sciences Corporation; The J.M. Smucker Company; Knouse Foods, Inc.; Ricoh Americas Corporation; Nihon Kohden America, Inc.; Rochester Meat Company; Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics; Steelcase, Inc.; AVID Medical, Inc.; Biotronic Inc.; Fisher HealthCare, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific; Medrad, Inc.; and Zoll Medical Corporation.
The following 54 suppliers received the Performance Award in 2008:
3M Company
Aesculap, Inc.
Ambu Inc.
Atrium Medical Corporation
Belimed, Inc.
Cardiva Medical, Inc.
Children’s Medical Ventures
ConMed Corporation
Covidien
Covidien Imaging Solutions (formerly Mallinckrodt)
The Dannon Company
Datascope – Patient Monitoring Division
Draeger Medical
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, Inc.
GE Healthcare Clinical Systems
Hill-Rom Company, Inc.
Hover Tech International
Instrumentation Laboratory (Werfen Group)
Iris Diagnostics
Kimberly-Clark Health Care
Knoll, Inc.
Lantheus Medical Imaging
Lumenis, Inc.
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Medical Action Industries, Inc.
Medline Industries, Inc.
Monoghan Medical Corporation
Nemschoff
North American Scientific
Olympus America
Orthofix, Inc.
Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc.
Philips Healthcare
Possis Medical, Inc.
Precept Medical Products, Inc.
Professional Hospital Supply
Rauland-Borg Corporation
Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation
Rochester Medical Corporation
Sage Products, Inc.
Interline Brands/Sexauer
Sizewise
Skytron
Spacelabs Healthcare
Sunoptic Technologies
Sysmex America, Inc.
Trident Seafood Corporation
TZ Medical, Inc.
Unisource Worldwide, Inc.
U.S. Foodservice
Vascutek USA, Inc.
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Welch Allyn
For more information, please visit: www.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 2,400 U.S. hospitals
and nearly 70,000 other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality,
cost-effective care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, 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 works 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 offices in San Diego, Philadelphia and
Washington.
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