GHX Honors “Best 50” Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence in 2016

Top performing providers out of more than 4,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada honored for operational performance and driving down costs through the supply chain

Louisville, CO — Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has announced its annual list of the healthcare provider organizations being recognized as the 2016 GHX “Best 50” Supply Chains in North America for their work in improving operational performance and driving down costs through supply chain automation. The recipients will be honored at the 17^th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, April 24-26, 2017 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Md.

To select the Best 50, GHX looked at the performance of more than 4,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada connected to the GHX electronic trading exchange. GHX identified the 50 healthcare organizations that scored highest in areas such as maximizing document automation, Exchange utilization and trading partner connections during the 2016 calendar year. This year’s Best 50 list includes 51 organizations due to a tie between two providers.

"This is the ninth year that we have honored the provider organizations that set a very high bar for supply chain excellence," said Bruce Johnson, President & CEO, GHX. "This is a terrific accomplishment and reflects the outstanding work these supply chain, finance and materials management teams have undertaken to help their organizations maximize automation and efficiency. The work they are doing serves as a great example, showing the strategic value of supply chain to tackle costs, remove waste, drive efficiency, and in so doing, help deliver quality patient care and support hospitals’ move towards value based payments."

The 2016 GHX Best 50 customers are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Allina Health System
Baptist Health Systems, Inc.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center
Bon Secours Health System
Catholic Health System WNY
Community Regional Medical Center
Crouse Health Hospital
El Camino Hospital - Mountain View Campus
Fairview Health Services
Freeman Health System
Group Health Cooperative
Hackensack Meridian Health
Harris Health System
HealthEast Care System
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Mary Washington Hospital
Medical University Hospital Authority
Medstar Health
Memorial Hermann Health System
MultiCare Health System
NorthBay Healthcare
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Parkview Medical Center
Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Riverside Health System
Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System
Seattle Children's Hospital
Sharp HealthCare
Southwest General Health Center
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center
Stanford Health Care
The University of Chicago Medical Center
Tufts Medical Center
UC Health - CO
UCLA Healthcare
UF Health
United Health Services Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
University of Virginia Hospital System
UW Medicine – Harborview Medical Center
UW Medicine – University of Washington Medical Center
UW Medicine – Valley Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Wayne Memorial Hospital
Westchester Medical Center
Yale-New Haven Health Services

About GHX

Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) drives costs out of healthcare with cloud-based supply chain management technology and services in order to help enable better patient care and savings by maximizing automation, efficiency, and accuracy of business processes. GHX offers healthcare providers and suppliers an open and neutral electronic trading exchange that delivers procurement and accounts payable automation, contract and inventory management, vendor credentialing and management, business intelligence, and other supply chain-related tools and services. For more information, visit www.ghx.com and The Healthcare Hub.