To choose the winners for the 2024 Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award, ECRI reviewed data from more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems, which spent more than $74 billion for supplies and capital last year.
The metrics included utilization of the procurement lifestyle, such as budgeting, benchmarking, technology assessment and strategic development; as well as spend management and market analytics efforts for capital medical devices, supplies, physician preference items, service contracts and reagents.
The winners:
- Appalachian Regional Healthcare (Lexington, Ky.)
- Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis)
- Inova Health System (Falls Church, Va.)
- Owensboro (Ky.) Health Regional Hospital
- Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- St. Joseph’s Healthcare System (Paterson, N.J.)
- Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
- United Health Services Hospitals-Binghamton (N.Y.)
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
- University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals (Galveston, Texas)
- University of Utah Hospital (Salt Lake City)
