Share your environmental success stories with Premier
Gain additional recognition
This is to alert you to a new Premier Web site dedicated to showcasing success stories in the area of environmental or "green" initiatives, or programs that contribute to a safer and healthier environment, with particular emphasis on Premier members and contracted suppliers. So, we are asking you to provide us with a short summary of an environmental success story (examples below).
Your opportunity for recognition
These success stories will be housed within the Premier Safety Institute Web site, which receives more than 3.5 million hits per year. Selected articles also will be referenced in Premier's GreenLink electronic newsletter, subscribed to by more than 8,000 professionals from across the country. Both the Premier Safety Institute Web site and GreenLink newsletter are accessible by Premier members and the general public. Premier will also publish selected stories in our member-only Premier Purchasing News (ePPN) and other member and field force briefings.
This invitation for success stories is being extended to both Premier members and our contracted suppliers in anticipation of collaboration. We also welcome stories from members about successful environmental initiatives that may not involve specific products.
Examples of topics for success stories could include:
- Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) program or implementation;
- Waste reduction (solid, hazardous, medical);
- Toxicity elimination (e.g., mercury);
- Energy efficiency;
- Water savings;
- Indoor air pollution reduction;
- Recycling;
- Healthy foods;
- E-waste (computers, electronics) recycling or reduction;
- Green cleaning programs;
- Green building initiatives; and
- Pharmaceutical waste management.
Program summaries/success stories should include all of the following:
- Name of the member healthcare organization, city and state;
- Goals of the program or initiative;
- If applicable, ways in which Premier's contracted suppliers or their product or service assisted a member in meeting those goals;
- Key implementation steps;
- Key metrics (how success was measured);
- Results, such as the amount of reduction; overall cost avoidance or savings; summary description of the program's success; or, if applicable, product usage;
- Examples of any obstacles and how they were overcome and/or recommendations for others embarking on this initiative;
- Contact information for readers to include in the story, including:
- Supplier name, Web site, contact person, and relevant Premier contract number.
- Member contact person(s) from the healthcare organization, including the internal program "champion" (who may be interviewed by Premier for follow-up information) and if applicable, additional member contacts willing to be listed in the article. Permission must be obtained from the member to include mention of the name of healthcare organization or staff member.
Success story submission guidelines
Premier would prefer an original summary of the success story. However, if an article has already been published on the Internet or in a journal article or newsletter, please provide the URL where the article resides, or an electronic copy of the article (.doc or .pdf). Follow these guidelines for article submission:
- Summary may be submitted in the form of a Word document and must be no longer than 1,500 words.
- In lieu of an original summary or as an addendum, you may also submit electronic versions of (or URL links to) prepared content such as articles, newsletters, or white papers that have been published (providing reprint permission is obtained prior to submission).
- Individual documents (e.g., Word or PDF) sent via e-mail should be no larger than 3 MB and total size of any one e-mail should not exceed 4 MB.
- The substance of original summaries or previously published articles must be predominantly about work with a Premier healthcare organization and if applicable, about Premier contracted products or services.
- Explicit permission should be obtained from Premier members when they are mentioned in the success story. If a member chooses not be mentioned, the healthcare organization may be mentioned generically (e.g., a "350-bed community hospital in the Midwest").
- For background purposes, please include relevant Premier contract number(s). Confidential, member-only contract information, non-Premier hospital names, and names of other GPOs will not be included in articles.
- Premier reserves the right to edit submissions, assimilate information, and publish those that are deemed appropriate as an environmental success story.
To submit articles and other information (e-mail or facsimile preferred), send to:
Premier's EPP Program - Safety Institute
E-mail: EPP_Program@premierinc.com
Fax: 704.424.9004
Phone: 704.733.2006
2320 Cascade Pointe Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28208
We look forward to receiving your success stories.
Sincerely,
Gina Pugliese
Vice President,
Safety Institute, Premier, Inc.
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