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February 2010
- Premier healthcare alliance launches value analysis solution to help hospitals better connect staff, achieve quality improvements and cost savings (2/25/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in March (2/24/10)
- Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast selects Premier healthcare alliance quality improvement solution to improve patient care, reduce costs (2/17/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance helps members achieve record savings of more than $1 billion in 2009 (2/10/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in February (2/3/10)
- Banner Health expands Premier healthcare alliance relationship to include Web-based labor benchmarking solution (2/2/10)
January 2010
- Prenatal health initiative wins national award for improving health outcomes of mothers and babies (1/27/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance taking critical next steps toward supply chain data standardization to drive quality and efficiency improvements (1/26/10)
- Participants in Premier Insurance Management Services sponsored Excess Workers' Compensation program divide up $1,363,052 (1/25/10)
- St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network reduces carbon footprint with purchase of renewable energy, avoids more than $1 million in electricity costs (1/21/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance expert to discuss national quality and cost improvement collaborative at HFMA winter conference (1/20/10)
- Premier healthcare alliance board appoints new members to committees dedicated to hospital quality and cost improvement, healthcare transparency and advocacy (1/19/10)
- Hospitals to utilize Premier healthcare alliance Web-based automated surveillance solution, Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) to increase patient safety, reduce costs (1/13/10)
- St. Anthony's Medical Center in St Louis achieves one-third of expected $9 million savings goal in first year of membership in Premier healthcare alliance (1/11/10)
- Haywood Regional Medical Center generates more than $3.6 million in savings in six months with Premier healthcare alliance labor management solution (1/7/10)
- Missouri delivery system achieves more than $3.3 million in savings with Premier healthcare alliance, drives performance in cardiovascular services (1/6/10)
December 2009
- Participants in Premier Insurance Management Services sponsored Fidelity & Fiduciary Liability program divide up more than $104,000 (12/29/09)
- Oregon public employees to have wider access to lower-priced prescription drugs through OPDP, Wellpartner affiliation with the Premier healthcare alliance (12/21/09)
- Kentucky hospital achieves supply chain savings through Premier healthcare alliance's ASCEND program, MySpend spend management solution (12/14/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance names Craig McKasson chief financial officer (12/11/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services introduces leading healthcare dependent eligibility audit program to 2,200 hospital members of the Premier healthcare alliance (12/8/09)
- Hand hygiene saves lives: Enlisting patients as partners - Premier media briefing (12/7/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance, hospital experts to discuss successes in QUEST nationwide hospital collaborative at IHI National Forum (12/3/09)
November 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance announces new foodservice distribution contract that offers significant saving opportunities to its members (11/18/09)
- More than 30 hospitals join expansion of Premier healthcare alliance QUEST® collaborative (11/12/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events (11/11/09)
- US Department of Defense recognizes Premier healthcare alliance expert for efforts to improve patient safety, reduce healthcare costs through data standardization (11/10/09)
- More than 1,000 Premier healthcare alliance employees donate 4,000 hours participating in volunteer activities with Hands On Charlotte (11/5/09)
- Modern Healthcare names Premier healthcare alliance among top 10 Best Places to Work in Healthcare (11/2/09)
October 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance introduces program to better align hospitals and physicians to improve quality and patient outcomes, control costs and increase profitability (10/28/09)
- St. Joseph's/Candler Health System expands Premier healthcare alliance affiliation to include Web-based infection tracking solution (10/26/09)
- Nationwide hospital collaborative saves more than 8,000 lives and $577 million in costs in one year (10/21/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services introduces property risk management program designed to help hospitals reduce cost, improve coverage, minimize losses and deliver superior claims services (10/19/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance relocates corporate headquarters to Charlotte, N.C. (10/14/09)
- Seven new suppliers added to Premier healthcare alliance program that supports growth of diverse and small business enterprises (10/12/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in October (10/7/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services introduces program to assess hospital performance and collaboration in clinical risk management, quality and safety (10/1/09)
September 2009
- St. Francis Medical Center selects Premier healthcare alliance Web-based infection tracking solution to increase patient safety, reduce costs (9/28/09)
- Monongalia Health System expands Premier healthcare alliance affiliation to include Web-based infection tracking solution (9/23/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance Continuum of Care division adds 9,500 new members representing $1 billion in purchasing spend (9/21/09)
- Inflation rates for healthcare supplies unchanged since March, projected to remain stable through 2010, according to Premier healthcare alliance analysis (9/17/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in September (9/16/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance to offer members mobile technology to improve obstetric safety, communication (9/14/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance ASCEND program helps hospitals, healthcare systems reduce supply expenses (9/10/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance names industry leader head of Healthcare Informatics division driving clinical, quality and operational improvement (9/4/09)
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System expands participation in Premier's LaborConnect™ program through Concerro™ shift management system (9/1/09)
August 2009
- Hospitals save more than $74 million through Premier healthcare alliance's group buy program (8/27/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance enhances quality benchmarking and regulatory reporting solution to include RAC capabilities and Practitioner Profiling (8/25/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance expert to discuss safe injection practices and improving patient safety at Joint Commission infection control conference (8/19/09)
- Model hospital value-based purchasing program continues to improve patient outcomes (8/17/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance launches new pharmacy contracts for 10,500 generic drugs, priced to save members $60 million to $70 million a year over current spend (8/12/09)
- Medicare value-based purchasing project shows any hospital can achieve positive results, regardless of size, location or patient-payer mix (8/6/09)
July 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance executive named 2009 chief financial officer of the year by San Diego Business Journal (7/27/09)
- Hospitals participating in Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST project share achieved successes in harm avoidance, surviving sepsis (7/23/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services introduces professional liability insurance program (7/20/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance introduces foodservice quality and safety standards (7/13/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance adds eight new hospital supply categories to help members achieve exceptional savings (7/8/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance adds new suppliers to program supporting growth of diverse and small business enterprises (7/7/09)
- St. Helena Hospital food service executive wins Premier Culinary Creations Award (7/2/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance creates catalog to identify devices and equipment specifically designated for pediatric patients (7/1/09)
June 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance enhances RAC capabilities to help hospitals achieve maximum revenue retention (6/30/09)
- Foodservice directors named 2009 Premier Illuminating Excellence Award winners (6/24/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance honors healthcare system, contracted supplier for efforts to promote diversity in supply chain process (6/23/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance recognizes nation's top hospitals for commitment to high-quality patient care, operational efficiency (6/17/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance recognizes nation's top hospitals for achieving superior supply expense performance (6/17/09)
- Three members win third annual Premier healthcare alliance Supply Chain Innovation Award (6/17/09)
- Premier honors contracted suppliers whose performance demonstrates operational excellence (6/17/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services honors hospitals for reducing liability, enhancing quality of care (6/17/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance to offer new services to help alliance member hospitals improve capital equipment sourcing, selection and procurement (6/16/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance to highlight suppliers dedicated to healthcare quality and efficiency improvement, innovation (6/16/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance, GNYHA Ventures identify more than $317 billion in hospital cost savings (6/15/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance enhances solution to help hospitals control costs through supply cost benchmarking, comparative analysis (6/11/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance acquires Phase 2 Consulting to expand its performance improvement offerings to its member hospitals nationwide (6/2/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in June (6/1/09)
May 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance names industry expert to lead QUEST quality and cost improvement collaborative (5/21/09)
- Premier Insurance Management Services announces new captive management offerings to help organizations with captives control costs, reduce risk and improve patient safety (5/19/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance receives national recognition for environmental excellence for seventh consecutive year (5/19/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance to expand participation in initiative to eliminate preventable birth injuries (5/14/09)
- Participants in Premier Insurance Management Services sponsored Fidelity & Fiduciary Liability program divide up more than $119,000 (5/13/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance achieves record growth, helps members save more than $780 million in 2008 (5/12/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance enhances labor management solution used by hospitals to increase patient safety, reduce costs (5/6/09)
April 2009
- S.C. hospital expects year one savings of $1 million by joining Premier healthcare alliance and the WNC Health Network (4/30/09)
- Akron, Ohio healthcare system saves $1.1+ million using Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (4/23/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance launches national search for leading community health programs (4/16/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance named one of 2009's "World's Most Ethical Companies" by Ethisphere Institute for second year in a row (4/14/09)
- Nearly 80 hospitals, healthcare systems part of Premier healthcare alliance ASCEND™ program to improve supply chain efficiency (4/8/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in April (4/2/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance releases economic outlook, inflation estimates through August 2009 (4/1/09)
March 2009
- Hospital experts to discuss cost savings through energy efficiency, new purchasing strategies (3/31/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance enhances Web-based infection tracking solution used by hospitals to increase patient safety, reduce costs (3/30/09)
- Yale University dining services to use Premier healthcare alliance’s unique foodservice solutions (3/26/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance to expand participation in cost and quality improvement collaborative, launches QUEST 2009 (3/18/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance names DeVore president and chief executive officer (3/13/09)
- Premier listed as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (3/12/09)
- Carolinas HealthCare System executive named to Premier healthcare alliance committee dedicated to healthcare cost improvement (3/11/09)
- Webcast to address hospital prevention, treatment of venous thromboembolism, deep vein thrombosis (3/10/09)
- North Carolina hospital saves $300,000 in four months using Premier healthcare alliance spend management tool (3/5/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in March (3/2/09)
February 2009
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in February (2/9/09)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center selects Premier’s Web-based infection tracking solution (2/5/09)
- South Carolina hospitals look to eliminate preventable infections, safely reduce cost of care (2/4/09)
- Webcasts to feature discussions on preventing HAIs and pressure ulcers, implementing anticoagulation programs to meet The Joint Commission requirements (2/2/09)
January 2009
- Orlando-based health initiative wins national award for HIV prevention and continuum of care to individuals (1/28/09)
- Participants in Premier Insurance Management Services sponsored Excess Workers’ Compensation program divide up nearly $680,000 (1/27/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance partners with Concerro (formerly BidShift) to offer online shift management systems (1/22/09)
- Webcast to feature lessons learned from top-performing hospital in Premier healthcare alliance QUEST collaborative (1/20/09)
- Hospitals join new Premier healthcare alliance program to accelerate, sustain supply chain savings, process improvements (1/15/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance Board appoints members to committees dedicated to improving quality, safely reducing costs and promoting social responsibility (1/13/09)
- CHIPS Purchasing joins Premier healthcare alliance through affiliation with Colonial Regional Alliance (1/9/09)
- Premier healthcare alliance experts to present at national events in January (1/7/09)
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