Premier and alliance member judges included: Jeanie Brown, vice president, Health Enterprises, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mike Bomstad, senior vice president, Child Health Care Corporation of America, Shawnee Mission, Kan.; Susan DeVore, COO, Premier; Tim Berkey, managing principal, Surgical Services, Premier Consulting Solutions; and Mike Alkire, president, Premier Purchasing Partners.

Judges for the Supply Chain Innovation Awards included outside experts Thomas Hughes, executive director, Strategic Marketplace Initiative, Scituate, Mass.; and Rick Dana Barlow, senior editor, Healthcare Purchasing News.


For more information, please 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 51,000-plus 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 www.premierinc.com.

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