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The first healthcare GPO was established in 1910 by the Hospital Bureau of New York. For many decades, healthcare GPOs grew slowly in number, to only 10 in 1962. Medicare and Medicaid stimulated growth in the number of GPOs to 40 in 1974. That number tripled between 1974 and 1977.
Vizient Inc., based in Irving, Texas, is a corporation that serves over 5,000 not-for-profit health system members and their affiliates, including 1,360 acute care hospitals. Founded in 2016, it is a successor company to VHA, Inc. , founded in 1977 as a network of not-for-profit health care organizations working in clinical, financial, and ...
Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) [3] Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Community Health Accreditation Program(CHAP) DNV GL Healthcare; Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) [4] Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [5] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP)
MedAssets, Inc. was an American healthcare performance improvement company. It provided products and services to 4,400 hospitals and 122,000 non-acute healthcare providers. [3] The Alpharetta, Georgia based company had 15 offices across the United States.
Premier, Inc. is an American healthcare company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.The company is listed on New York Stock Exchange (Nasdaq: PINC) Class A. . In the early 2000s, Premier was a hospital buying group, pooling healthcare purchases to reduce prices.
Leonard Abramson, founder and former chief executive officer of U.S. Healthcare [9] Angela Braly, president and chief executive officer of WellPoint from 2007 to 2012 [10] Phil Bredesen, founder and former chief executive officer of HealthAmerica Corporation, [11] as well as the founder and first chairman of Coventry Health Care [12]
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) is a United States-based non-profit health care accrediting organization. It represents an alternative to the Joint Commission and CHAP, The Community Health Accreditation Program .
CVS Caremark was founded as MedPartners, Inc. in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama by several local businessmen as a physician practice management (PPM) company. [1] HealthSouth, New Enterprise Associates, and Richard M. Scrushy stepped in to provide the company with early financial backing.