Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching - Retired.

Healthcare Purchasing News recognizes and salutes those teams of professionals who seem to go beyond the call of duty to make a difference and succeed as tangible examples for others to follow.

What makes a supply chain op worth watching? What they’re doing and why they matter in the areas of cost-cutting, efficiency-driven, clinically motivated and patient-centric concepts, ideas, activities and outcomes. While these categories may seem rather cut-and-dry statistically, we use anecdotal, unscientific and completely subjective methods to choose organizations, motivated by self-reported innovative thinking and work.

2021 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Lebanon, NH
• Dignity Health, San Francisco 
• HonorHealth, Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ
• Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA
• Jackson Health System, Miami 
• M Health Fairview, Minneapolis 
• OhioHealth, Columbus, OH
• St. Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA 
• UPMC, Pittsburgh
• University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City

2020 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Lebanon, NH 
• Dignity Health, San Francisco 
• HonorHealth, Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ 
• Inova Health System, Falls Church, VA 
• Jackson Health System, Miami  
• M Health Fairview, Minneapolis   
• OhioHealth, Columbus, OH 
• St. Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA 
• UPMC, Pittsburgh 
• University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City 

2019 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Ascension Health, St. Louis, MO
• Aspirus Inc., Wausau, WI
• Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ
• Avera Health, Sioux Falls, SD
• Baptist Health Medical Center, Little Rock, AR
• Charleston Area Medical Center/CAMC Health System, Charleston, WV
• Departments of Defense, Philadelphia and Veterans Affairs, Washington (DoD/DVA)
• Freeman Health System, Joplin, MO
• Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, CT
• Hunterdon Healthcare System, Flemington, NJ
• The University of Kansas Health System, Kansas City, KS

2018 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• CaroMont Health, Gastonia, NC
• Centura Health, Centennial, CO
• Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ
• Indiana University Health, Indianapolis
• Mount Sinai Health System, New York
• Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, IN
• Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, WA
• Tower Health, Reading, PA
• UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC
• University of Chicago Medicine
• The University of Vermont Health Network, Burlington, VT

2017 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
• Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston,MA
• Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY
• Novant Health, Winston-Salem, NC
• OSF Healthcare, Peoria, IL
• Ochsner Health, Baton Rouge, LA
• Sanford Health, Fargo-Sioux Falls, SD
• Scripps Health, San Diego, CA

2016 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, IL
• Ardent Health Services, Nashville, TN
• AtlantiCare, Atlantic City, NJ
• BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, MO
• St. Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, MO
• Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX
• Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

2015 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• Denver Health, Denver, CO
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOL), Baton Rouge, LA
• HCA Supply Chain Services, Nashville, TN
• Legacy Health, Portland, OR
• Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, SC
• Mercy Hospital Joplin, Joplin, MO
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
• Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Chicago, IL
• Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA
• St. Francis Hospital Medical Center, Hartford, CT

2014 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Adventist HealthCare, Gaithersburg, MD
• Agnesian HelathCare, Fond du Lac, WI
• Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, MA
• Ellis Medicine, Schenectady, NY
• Integris Health, Oklahoma City, OK
• Loma Linda (CA) University Medical Center
• North Texas Medical Center, Gainesville, TX
• St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima, OH
• UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
• Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Glendale WI

2013 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• CHE-Trinity Health, Livonia, MI
• The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• CHRISTUS Health, Dallas
• Continuum Health Partners, New York
• Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City
• Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY
• SCL Health System, Denver
• South County Hospital, Wakefield, RI
• SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
• University Health System, San Antonio, TX
• William Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI

2012 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Banner Health, Phoenix
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
• Concord (NH) Hospital
• Edward Hospital & Health Services, Naperville, IL
• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Pine Bluff, AR
• Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas
• St. Luke’s Health System, Boise, ID
• Scottsdale (AZ) Health
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia PA
• UAB University Hospital, Birmingham, AL
• University of Chicago Hospitals & Healthcare

2011 Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching:

• Broward Health, Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
• Fletcher Allen Healthcare, Burlington, VT
• Froedtert Health, Milwaukee
• Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
• Greenville (SC) Health System
• Lancaster (PA) General Health
• LeeSar, Fort Myers, FL
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• McLeod Health, Florence, SC
• Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston
• Mercy/Resource Optimization and Innovation, Chesterfield, MO
• Mountain States Health Alliance, Johnson City, TN
• The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
• Orlando (FL) Health
• Piedmont Health, Atlanta
• University of Pittsburgh (PA) Medical Center
• WellStar Health System, Marietta, GA