Newswise — Geisinger Health System today announced that it is a winner of the second annual Supply Chain Innovation Award presented by the Premier healthcare alliance.
Geisinger is one of only three of Premier's 2,000 members to receive the award, which recognizes successful innovations that have created new levels of performance and competitive advantage while improving patient care and safely reducing costs.
"This is a great recognition for our entire team," said Deborah Petretich Templeton RPh, MHA, Associate Vice President, Supply Chain Services. "Strong supply chain performance can help improve Geisinger's bottom line, which is key in delivering outstanding healthcare."
Templeton accepted the award at the 2008 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference & Exhibition in Nashville, Tenn. The award ceremony was held on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and featured a special presentation from country music legend Naomi Judd.
"Achieving and sustaining strong supply chain performance is essential to a healthy bottom line, which ensures that the health needs of our community are met," said Premier Purchasing Partners President Mike Alkire. "This award encourages sharing of best practices and breakthrough ideas so all Premier alliance members can accelerate performance in the supply chain."
The Supply Chain Innovation Award also recognizes organizations that have worked with Premier to implement improvement ideas throughout the Premier membership. Winning ideas, such as new products, programs, services, processes and tools, must be in place and already creating value to be considered.
Other winners of the award are Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee (won two awards) and Montefiore Medical Center, New York. For more information, visit: http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/awards/sc-performance-awards/index.jsp.
About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 50,000 other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit http://www.premierinc.com.
About Geisinger Health SystemFounded in 1915, Geisinger Health System (Danville, PA) is one of the nation's largest integrated health services organizations. Serving more than two million residents throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania, the physician-led organization is at the forefront of the country's rapidly emerging electronic health records movement. Geisinger is comprised of two medical center campuses, three hospitals, a 720-member group practice, a not-for-profit health insurance company and the Geisinger Center for Health Research—dedicated to creating innovative new models for patient care, satisfaction and clinical outcomes. For more information, visit http://www.geisinger.org
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