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Maryland healthcare system saves $5M with Premier healthcare alliance labor management solution

 Industry News Release March 11, 2010
Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, of Frederick, Md. achieved more than $5 million in labor cost savings with the Premier healthcare alliance through the use of LaborConnect, Premier’s labor management program.
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Premier healthcare alliance launches value analysis solution for hospitals

 Industry News Release February 25, 2010
The Premier healthcare alliance has introduced a new value analysis solution to help hospitals effectively evaluate product and treatment options to improve quality and safety while reducing costs.
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Premier announces new agreements for hospital cribs, bassinets and youth beds

 Industry News Release February 22, 2010
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for cribs, bassinets and youth beds have been awarded to Homewood Health Care Products Inc. of Dublin, Ohio; and NK Medical Products Inc. of Clarence, N.Y.
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North Carolina medical center selects Premier healthcare alliance quality improvement solution

 Industry News Release February 17, 2010
The Premier healthcare alliance today announced that Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast of Concord, N.C., selected Premier’s QualityAdvisor solution to improve delivery of patient care and safely reduce costly avoidable patient events.
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Premier healthcare alliance sees member savings

 Industry News Release February 10, 2010
The Premier healthcare alliance generated member savings of more than $1 billion in its fiscal 2009, while the alliance grew to more than 2,300 not-for-profit hospitals and 64,000-plus other healthcare sites.
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VHA Regional Network helps New England hospitals save over $1M on medications

 Industry News Release February 03, 2010
Working with VHA Inc., the national healthcare network, and its regional office near Boston, 11 hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts hired a consultant to coordinate their efforts to cut pharmacy costs, without compromising patient care.
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Premier inks electronic payables agreement with PNC Bank National Association

 Industry News Release February 01, 2010
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced a new agreement for purchasing cards and electronic payables has been awarded to PNC Bank National Association of Lutherville, Md.
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Premier member hospitals now able to leverage synchronized data

 Industry News Release January 27, 2010
As the healthcare industry moves towards universal data standards to improve patient safety and reduce supply chain costs, 60 healthcare suppliers working with the Premier healthcare alliance have successfully synchronized standardized product data as of December 31, 2009.
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Premier offers Congress its ideas for healthcare reform

 Healthcare Finance News Staff January 13, 2010
Premier healthcare alliance, which encompasses 2,300 not-for profit hospitals and health systems and more than 63,000 other healthcare organizations, addressed healthcare reform in a letter to Congressional leadership Jan. 12.
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Companion Life Insurance acquires Summit Reinsurance

 Chelsey Ledue January 13, 2010
Columbia, S.C.-based Companion Life Insurance has purchased Indiana-based Summit Reinsurance Services, a re-insurer of HMOs and insurance companies and managing general underwriter of stop loss coverage for employer health plans.
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St. Louis medical center reportedly saves $3M in first year with Premier alliance

 Chelsey Ledue January 12, 2010
Officials at St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis’ largest free-standing hospital, say they saved $3 million in the hospital's first year with the Premier healthcare alliance.
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Small changes help Premier's QUEST hospitals save $577M

 Bernie Monegain January 11, 2010
Hospital executives taking part in the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST program say they saved $577 million last year by making small changes.
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Vendor Notebook - TransUnion buys MedData

 Eric Wicklund January 11, 2010
TransUnion has acquired MedData, a Charlotte, N.C.-based provider of healthcare insurance information and data solutions for hospitals, physician practices and major healthcare insurance companies.
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Vendor Notebook - Meta Health Technology wins software contract with Premier member hospitals

Eric Wicklund November 25, 2009
Meta Health Technology has been awarded a 36-month contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, to provide Premier's more than 2,200 member hospitals and 63,0000 additional healthcare sites with access to pre-negotiated pricing and terms for Meta's patient chart abstracting and electronic physician query software.
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To blunt nurse shortage, hospitals must address nurse turnover

 Patty Enrado November 24, 2009
With 100,000 nursing positions currently unfilled and the shortage expected to climb to 340,000 nurses by 2020, healthcare systems need a strategy to reduce nurse turnover.
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Premier announces new transcription services agreements

 Industry News Release November 13, 2009
Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for transcription services.
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More than 30 hospitals join expansion of Premier healthcare alliance QUEST collaborative

 Industry News Release November 12, 2009
More than 30 hospitals have joined the expansion of the Premier healthcare alliance "QUEST: High Performing Hospitals" collaborative.
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Premier initiative keeps focus on the bottom line

 Bernie Monegain October 29, 2009
The Premier healthcare alliance has launched a new program designed to help hospitals and health systems control costs and increase profitability while also improving patient care.
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Premier healthcare alliance adds seven new suppliers

 Industry News Release October 13, 2009
The Premier healthcare alliance has announced that seven new hospital supplier agreements have been launched in its supplier diversity program aimed at increasing the number of small, diverse and regional enterprises doing business with members of the Premier alliance.
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Virginia medical center adopts Web-based infection tracking tool

 Industry News Release September 29, 2009
Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center of Midlothian, Va., has selected Premier’s SafetySurveillor Web-based infection tracking and antimicrobial utilization tool.
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