Success Stories
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ASCEND program drives supply chain savings
- ASCEND® savings are substantial for Ingalls Health System in Illinois
- St. Anthony's supply chain director praises savings with ASCEND (Video)
- Premier’s ASCEND, MySpend help KY hospital drive needed supply chain savings
- St Louis hospital achieves one-third of $9M savings goal in first year with Premier
Clinical and spend management products and tools
- Baptist Health South Florida's use of MySpend™ nets $5.25M in savings
- NM hospital identifies $2M in savings with Premier's unique integrated tools
- Integrating Premier products provides information to help reduce blood costs
- Premier tools help hospital engage surgeons to save 1.3M on implants
- NC hospital saves $1.3M moving to Premier from another GPO
- The pharmacy at Florida’s Moffitt Cancer Center realizes monthly savings
- Kentucky healthcare system saves $1 million in first year
- North Carolina hospital saves $2+ million in first year
- Mississippi Baptist reduces supply chain expense by $10 million in one year
- Child Health Corporation of America owner hospitals save $4.5M
Contracts provide savings, meet member needs
- MS system reduces can liner expense by 50 percent using national contract
- Fairview Health System, 22 affiliates save more than $1.1 million with group buys
- Kentucky hospital decreases supply costs $1.7 million even as services grow
- Pennsylvania hospital’s purchasing reorganization and access to contracts saves $700,000+
- Medical nutrition contracts (including enteral feeding formulas and devices) bring savings
- Chicago hospital’s “exact match savings” top $500,000
- Tele-RDs increase contract compliance at rural Washington hospital
Construction and facilities portfolios
- Iowa co-op, Premier construction contracts, contractor teamwork drive $150K savings
- Ohio hospital posts $1.1 million savings in new hospital construction
Consultants help members achieve new successes
- Unique Premier advantages help IDN achieve $5M cardiovascular savings
- Pharmacy execution validated; nearly $2M in potential savings
- Perinatal collaborative showing encouraging results at 16 hospitals
- Experts help TN IDN realize $2.7M in supply chain savings
- Tufts Medical Center identifies nearly $5 million in nonlabor savings in only 14 months
- Missouri integrated delivery system sets sights on top decile cardiovascular performance with top quartile costs
- SC medical center save $5 million with LaborConnect™ and performance partner
- NC health system eliminates $5.34 million in supply chain costs
- Baptist Healthcare System in Kentucky engagement identifies potential pharmacy savings
- Comprehensive consulting approach drives $4.5M in cardiology savings at MN hospital
Environmental efforts show dividends
Foodservice contracting and consulting
- Premier helps NJ hospital take back food service with significant savings
- Colorado State likes Premier smoothie concept; natural fruit, sweeteners
- NC retirement community saves $141K using Premier's foodservice program
- Consultants help University of Louisville’s University Hospital improve quality and save big
- Foodservice program leads way toward healthier eating alternative
Formal collaboration spurs fast savings
- Yankee Alliance Cardiovascular Breakthrough Series savings top $4 million
- SSM Health Care hospital finds $2.3 million opportunity through enhanced revenue-supply chain cost link
- Mercy Iowa City’s Cath Lab saves $240,000+ in supply costs
- New physician dialogue helps Georgia hospitals save in orthopedics, neurosurgery
Incentives aligned with members drive savings
- CA IDN, Premier supply utilization assessment savings top $5.3M
- Catholic Healthcare Partners saves $16.8 million
- Outsourcing supply chain executive helps align incentives for McLaren Health
Labor management programs help with efficient productivity
- New Mexico system realizes $10 million in labor saving with Premier’s OperationsAdvisor® in 2009; expects savings of $7 million more in 2010
- Maryland healthcare system saves more than $5 million using Premier labor management program with direction from Performance Partner
- Western N.C. hospital saves more than $3.6 million in six months with LaborConnectTM
- OperationsAdvisor® helps Chicago IDN save $21-plus million improving productivity by 350 FTEs with enhanced labor management
- Midwest IDN to save $2.6 million through improved human resource management
- Labor management program saves health system $5 million
- Catholic health system saves $125 million; performance partners play key role
- Kentucky Baptist hospitals reduce labor expense nearly $70 million
- Catholic Healthcare Partners generates $56 million in savings
Regional collaboration enhances results
- Illinois Purchasing Collaborative drives savings of $9 million-plus since 2007
- HEc, Premier partner to drive big savings for members in Iowa
- Committee service prompts decision to expand affiliate program at JRMC
- Five-NC-hospital collaborative conducts successful first-ever joint board retreat
- National Capital Area Shared Services Increases affiliates after joining Premier
- Food product standardization savings soon to top $1 million
- South Carolina medical center expects year one savings of $1 million
- 55 hospitals in three states save $46 million through WNC Health Network
- Savings approach $7 million for Southern Premier Owners Group
- Yankee Alliance helps Anna Jaques Hospital achieve profitability after 7 years of losses
Supplier Diversity
Value analysis tool drives savings
- ValueAdvisor® helps Michigan IDN move to best practice value analysis
- Midwest system automates value analysis process