Success Stories
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Learn about how Premier won the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
ASCEND program drives supply chain savings
- With Premier's ASCEND contracts, Baptist Health in Jacksonville is saving on average an additional 15 percent to 17 percent (video)
- Tanner Health System's CNO talks about how ASCEND has helped significantly reduce supply chain costs and drive standardization (video)
- Naperville, IL, hospital's exact match savings exceed $1 million after joining Premier healthcare alliance and its growing ASCEND program
- 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
Unique integration of clinical and supply chain data targets waste
- WI hospitals save $2.2M with guidance from Premier products
- NM hospital identifies $2M in savings with Premier's unique integrated tools
- Integrating Premier products provides information to help reduce blood costs
- Unique Premier advantages help IDN achieve $5M cardiovascular savings
Spend management tools provide actionable data to reduce costs
- Premier healthcare alliance’s new PharmacySpend dashboard allows pharmacy leaders to easily view, explore 4 key performance indicators
- Baptist Health South Florida's use of MySpend™ nets $5.25M in savings
- 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
Collaboration, aggregation enhance savings
- 45-bed PA hospital implements $250,000 in exact-match savings after joining Premier as Bon Secours' affiliate
- Strong partnership with Premier helps Miami Beach's Mount Sinai Medical Center reduce 2010 supply expenses by $1.76 million even with robust growth
- Southern Premier Owners Group, a ‘virtual IDN,’ drives $8M-plus savings; 13 owners have aggregated and standardized their purchasing since 2003
- Working together, five Catholic Contracting Group IDNs save $50M
- Small Iowa hospital saves with Health Enterprises Coop reference lab contract (Video)
- Washington hospital nets $1M+ savings by moving from MedAssets to Premier
- Catholic Healthcare Partners CEO talks about the Premier Catholic Contracting Group's successes (Video)
- Catholic purchasing group affiliation nets $1.5 million exact-match savings
- 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
Contracts provide savings, meet member needs
- WV hospital saves 50 percent on high level disinfection reprocessing with ASCEND contract
- Injectable auto-substitution program helps NC health system save $4+ million on drugs
- Premier's new sourcing to specification (S2S™) program helps Tennessee IDN avoid $100,000 increase with new glove contract
- Premier healthcare alliance's limited-time, Web-based group buy concept provides members exceptional savings for exclusive, limited-time offers
- First-ever Patient Monitoring Supplier Expo is big hit with members, suppliers; enhances member involvement in contracting decisions
- Washington state hospital's move to Hospital Shared Services Association, Premier healthcare alliance brings $1 million in savings with more to come
- Members collect $3.4 million+ savings from no-fuss pharmacy failure-to-supply program
- Members talk about value of pharmacy failure-to-supply program, especially in time of drug shortages (Watch our Failure-to-Suppy Video)
- 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 partner with members in improve performance
- Risk sharing goal to reduce supply expense per CMI adjusted discharge by 1.2% drives savings of $6.5M-plus at Dallas' Methodist Health
- Shared risk partnership with Methodist Health System in Dallas to drive costs savings produces big results: supply chain savings top $6.5 million (video)
- Premier healthcare alliance consultants help Illinois hospitals develop, implement antimicrobial stewardship program; first savings top $800,000
- 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
Clinical specialists provide members special expertise
- Region director, imaging field specialists help Texas hospital save 12 percent on CT scanner purchase
- NC health system eliminates $5.34 million in supply chain costs
Craneware™: Automated solutions for healthcare revenue integrity
- Craneware’s Bill Analyzer helps CA hospital capture $400,000+ cath lab revenue
- Craneware’s Patient Charge Estimator™ helps provide reliable service estimates
- Listen to clients, provide exceptional service fundamental to Craneware’s success
- Craneware helps ME hospital submit clean, compliant claims quickly
Green focus boosts savings; reduces carbon footprint
- Heartland Health's David Jones talk about his organization's efforts to go green and how they were helped by the work of Premier's Energy Task Force (video)
- Missouri health system reduces costs while converting to greener organizational practices; Premier Energy Task Force's efforts help
- Executive Scorecard on the Environment provides Saint Francis Care a “green” baseline snapshot
Foodservice contracting and consulting
- East Alabama Medical Center earns significant rebate by participating in Premier healthcare alliance incentive program with U.S. Foodservice
- 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
Aligned incentives drive savings
- Mercy Hospital Iowa City takes a different approach to managing cardiac rhythm management devices resulting in significant cost savings, efficiencies
- CA IDN, Premier supply utilization assessment savings top $5.3M
Labor management programs help with efficient productivity
- Reducing costs significantly by improving labor management with Premier's OperationsAdvisor® (video)
- Michigan hospital employs labor productivity system based on OperationsAdvisor® to drive savings of more than $4 million
- OperationsAdvisor benchmarks help drive labor savings of $4.3M+ for Tennessee health system
- 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
Partnership for Care Transition
- Partnership for Care Transition Implementation Collaborative members talk about value of collaborative in helping develop own accountable care organizations (video)
- Readiness assessment helps Connecticut hospital get ready for future ACO development
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Readiness assessment helps educate
prepare Pennsylvania health network for ACO developments - Readiness assessment helps Memphis' Methodist Healthcare, doctors prepare for possible ACO
Value analysis tool drives savings
- Premier's ValueAdvisor® product promotes collaboration, enhances value analysis process (video)
- Premier's ValueAdvisor® helps Cleveland's University Hospitals manage revised value analysis process effectively; savings top nearly $9 million
- ValueAdvisor® helps Michigan IDN move to best practice value analysis
Premier Awards
- New Mexico IDN Supply chain leader talks how Premier's SupplyFocus, helped his organization develop benchmarks that lead to positive changes (video)
- Supply chain leader of New Mexico IDN talks about changes that lead to his organization's winning Premier's Supply Chain Innovation Award (video)
- Karen Kiefer, director surgical services, Corporate Supply Chain Management, at Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX, talks about her IDN being a winner of the 2010 Premier Supply Chain Innovation Award (video) (video)
- Lyndon Espiritu, assistant director of dietary at Glen Cove (NY) Hospital, part of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, winner of the Premier 2010 Culinary Creations Contest talks about his winning entry (video)
- North Oaks Health System's director of Material Services, talks about winning the Premier healthcare alliance 2010 Supply Chain Innovation Award (video)