Click below to read full endorsement letters from hospitals and health care providers (PDFs).
More Hospital and Health Organization Endorsements:
“As a result of the engagement, I have a better knowledge of the GPO roles and how we can utilize our GPO as a resource to help control our costs.”
Rick Brunswick, Director of Materials Management, Smith Clinic
“Our GPO once again demonstrated that they were willing to put in the effort required to analyze all data necessary and to deliver savings based on their aggressive supplier agreements. Our hospital was able to save more than $1.3 million in 2008 and is well on the way to meeting 2009 targets.”
John Volanto, Vice President of Support Services and Chief Information Officer, Nyack Hospital
“It’s difficult in the materials management field because sometimes you are the only person who does your job at a facility. It’s nice to have somewhere to learn more about your field and have connections with other professionals who do the same thing. Our GPO’s education program on materials management initiatives was very educational, and there was great interaction with your peers and representatives from our GPO. It was very beneficial to collaborate with other people in materials management.”
Stacey Van’t Hof, Materials Manager, Grand Valley Surgical Center, Grand Rapids, Mich.
“Using our GPO tools has shown not only discrepancies in costs but also those suppliers and manufacturers who provide us with the best prices and services.”
Cari Scordo, Purchasing Manager, Lexington (Ky.) Clinic
“We’ve worked with our GPO for years, and they continue to deliver value in so many forms.”
Mina Ubbing, CEO, Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster, Ohio
“Catholic Health Initiatives has been extremely pleased with the contract savings that have been achieved by our organization through the use of GPO contracts in the areas of supplies, services, pharmaceuticals and physician preference items. For our 2008, fiscal year (July – June) we have documented $9.7 million in savings from our use of GPO contracts.”
Phil Mears, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Catholic Health Initiatives
Click below to read full endorsement letters from Suppliers (PDFs).
More Supplier Endorsements:
West-Com
“Today, West-Com is widely recognized in the field of developing and installing nurse call systems for hospitals, bringing technological advancements to hospitals across the nation. The company owes this success to a group purchasing organization (GPO) that has helped it grow. Thanks in part to the business generated by the relationship with our GPO, West-Com has been able to consistently improve its products at various educational and industry workshops, acquire additional contracts with our GPO’s member facilities, enhance its distribution network and increase the size of its workforce by adding more regional sales managers and factory distributors…Each year since signing our GPO contract, West-Com has grown and expanded our GPO business opportunities.”
Mrs. Denise Peters, West-Com General Manager
Clinical Innovations
“Clinical Innovations recognized that by working with our GPO, it could expand its reach and make its quality products [unique medical devices that help improve health outcomes for pregnant women and their infants] accessible to even more hospitals.”
“By partnering with our GPO, Clinical Innovations’ network of hospitals grew wider. Clinical Innovations also gained access to top worldwide medical distributors, who possessed the ability to get its products to areas of the world where they are most needed.
" Since Clinical Innovations began working with our GPO, the company has been on an impressive annual growth track. Our GPO contracts include 17 of the company’s products. With these 17 products covered by our GPO, Clinical Innovations continues to record increased revenue as well as company growth, enabling reinvestment into research and development for new technologies and expanded employment.”
LSL Industries
“As a result of these contracts [with our GPO], LSL [offering hospitals OR basin kits & laceration trays, surgical sponges, skin scrub trays, urologicals - irrigation trays and IV start kits/central line kits] has been able to offer GPO members savings of anywhere from 10 percent to 25 percent. Methodist Hospital of Dallas, Texas, and the Aurora Healthcare System in Milwaukee are prime examples of hospitals that have benefited from these savings.”
“Our GPO contracts have made a real difference for LSL and its workforce. Our employee base is derived primarily from the low income groups within our local community. As a direct result of the contracts they have been awarded by our GPO, LSL has hired more than a dozen additional employees from these low-income areas. The company is also looking to expand its operations. As an organization, we have been able to grow from a 10,000-foot manufacturing facility to an 80,000-foot facility.”
Ash Luthra, President of LSL Industries, Inc
Medrad
“Our GPO's field team maximized the utility of awarded contracts so efficiently that MEDRAD experienced growth levels of almost 300 percent during its first year as a GPO supplier. [MEDRAD’s innovative medical imaging devices and services diagnose and treat critical health concerns and conditions.] Our GPO is in the upper echelon of GPOs in terms of driving the utilization of its contracts and actively engaging its hospital shareholders to maximize all their contracts. Business nearly doubled during the second year as a GPO supplier and increased an additional 60 percent during its third year…Our GPO has really taken the leading edge in the industry by investing in technology which increases operational efficiency.”
Greg Guarino, the National Account Manager at MEDRAD
Monaghan
“Since the company began working with our GPO, it has had multiple opportunities to introduce new products to GPO member hospitals in need of top-quality asthma care devices. Our GPO has been a valuable business partner and has allowed a company of Monaghan’s size advantageous access to GPO members.”
“Additionally, the partnership with our GPO has allowed member hospitals the ability to utilize the support of many specialized sales representatives who distribute Monaghan products, essentially increasing the company’s sales team by almost two hundred individuals. There is absolutely no question that our contract and partnership with our GPO has helped us maintain and grow our business.”
Jon Schoeler, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Monaghan
RD Plastics
“Since it began working with our GPO, RD Plastics has grown significantly. [Today, RD Plastics has more than 200 million bags in inventory, including biohazard zips, security seals and a patented Snap-N-Fill zip lock dispensing system.] Through the support of our GPO, RD Plastics now has annual sales of over $800,000 with GPO member facilities-a 60 percent increase from when the company started working with our GPO. This increase has allowed RD Plastics to grow significantly as an organization, including the addition of several more product lines.”
“Our GPO has always been ethical and treated our business with as much care as they would any other, regardless of our size.”
Jeff Loveless, Company Executive
Sage Products
“With our GPO’s help, Sage was able to share information with hospitals across the country and explain how its products [focused on patient bathing, oral care and preoperative skin preparation that were designed to address risk factors for various types of hospital-acquired infections] could help facilities safely reduce healthcare costs while improving the quality of care.”
“By helping facilities decrease hospital-acquired infections, Sage estimates that its products have saved hospitals hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars every year. With its commitment to helping hospitals safely reduce costs while improving care, our GPO actively works to provide the latest information, tools and resources for hospitals to improve patient care delivery. By partnering with Sage in its awareness-building efforts, our GPO helps its 1,700 member hospitals understand the importance of infection prevention in reducing all-around care costs.
“We’re proud to work together with our GPO to educate healthcare providers on the importance of prevention, which in turn reduces costs and improves quality of care.”
Kym Affinito, Vice President of Marketing
TZ Medical Profile
“…as a recognized leader in the cardiac and critical care device industry, TZ Medical owes a lot to our GPO hospital members and support staff.”
“Our GPO contract managers never have treated us like a small company and have allowed us to take on as much as we could. We continue to be dealt with in a manner that addresses our products – their quality, compatibility and competitive pricing – rather than our company’s size and public/private status.”
“After receiving its first contract with our GPO, the company gradually expanded its network and began working with other GPOs. Through its increased customer reach from these GPO relationships; TZ Medical has grown its annual revenues by close to 30 percent since 2003. This growth has allowed the company to increase their clinical and support staff, and to contribute funds to hospital education efforts as well as new technology development.”
Valerie Meyer, TZ Medical’s National Contracts Manager
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