The Premier healthcare alliance's Purchasing Partners division last week recognized 18 alliance members as winners of its second annual Supply Chain Excellence Award. Premier honored the winners - selected from its more than 2,000 eligible hospitals nationwide - at the 2008 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference&Exhibition in Nashville, Tenn. Premier's Supply Chain Excellence Award is given to the nation's top hospitals achieving superior supply expense performance as measured by Premier's recently upgraded SupplyFocusTM, the industry's largest comparative database of operational and supply chain cost information for acute care hospitals. Winners were identified using four industry standard supply expense ratios and a case-mix-index-based peer grouping methodology to ensure that organizations of diverse sizes and complexity...
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