GHX Honors "Best 50" Healthcare Providers for Commitment to Supply Chain Excellence

LOUISVILLE, Colo., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For their work in improving operational performance and reducing costs through supply chain automation, GHX is honoring 50 healthcare provider organizations with its 2011 GHX Best 50 Customer awards. The award recipients will be honored at the 2012 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, which is takes place May 7-9, 2012, in Orlando.

To select the Best 50, GHX looked across the landscape of more than 3,900 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada currently connected to the GHX electronic trading exchange and identified top performers on a number of key metrics, such as purchasing and invoice volume, exception rates, exchange utilization and trading partner connections. GHX then chose the 50 healthcare organizations that scored highest across all of these categories during the 2011 calendar year.

The 2011 GHX Best 50 Customers are as follows:

• Akron General Health System
• Allina Hospitals & Clinics
• Baptist Health - Jacksonville
• Bon Secours Health System
• Centra Health
• Central DuPage Health
• Centura Health
• Children's of Alabama
• Community Health Network
• Crouse Hospital
• Edward Hospital & Health Services
• El Camino Hospital
• Fairview Health Services
• Harris County Hospital District
• HealthPartners
• Lahey Clinic
• Mary Washington Healthcare
• MedStar Health
• Memorial Health Services
• NorthBay Healthcare
• Northeast Georgia Health System
• Overlake Hospital Medical Center
• Parkview Medical Center
• Partners HealthCare System
• Phoenix Children's Hospital
• Piedmont Hospital
• Premier Health Partners
• Presbyterian Healthcare Services
• Princeton Community Hospital
• Rockingham Memorial Hospital
• Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System
• Scottsdale Healthcare
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Shands HealthCare
• Shands Jacksonville
• Sisters of Charity - Providence Hospitals
• South Shore Hospital
• Southwest General Health Center
• Sparrow Health System
• St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center
• St. Joseph's/Candler
• Tufts Medical Center
• UCSF Medical Center
• University of Colorado Hospital
• University of Maryland Medical System
• Valley Medical Center
• ValleyCare Health System
• Virginia Mason Medical Center
• Wayne Memorial
• WellSpan Health

"With supply chain costs on a trajectory to supersede labor costs as early as 2022 for some hospitals, the supply chain is an area in critical need of reform," said Bruce Johnson, GHX president and CEO. "This year's Best 50 honors those GHX provider members that recognize the important role that the supply chain plays in the financial health of their organizations and are making meaningful changes to improve its performance."

The GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit is the largest healthcare event that brings together both the buy and sell sides of the healthcare supply chain to learn, share and discuss new ways to improve the business of healthcare and reduce costs. To view the complete agenda for the Summit or to register, visit www.ghx.com/supplychainsummit.

About GHX

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare technology and services company, helps reduce the cost of doing business in healthcare by enabling better supply chain management. GHX makes it easier for hospitals, other healthcare providers and the suppliers that do business with them to drive cost and inefficiency out of their processes. Working with GHX, the healthcare organizations that make up the GHX Global Network are on track to save $5 billion by 2014—savings that can be invested in such things as hiring more nurses, providing care to uninsured children or developing new medical products. GHX is owned by organizations on both the buy and sell side of the healthcare supply chain, including some of the largest companies in the world. Find GHX on the Web, on Twitter @GHX_LLC and on Facebook @GHX.

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