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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.
In 1998, Mike Weiss and Paul Danzinger were approached by inventor Thomas J. Shaw, who had trouble selling an auto-retractable and single-use syringe (Safety Syringe) because Premier, Inc. and Novation, two largest healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the United States, refused to adopt his new, more expensive, safer syringes.
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 ...
Premier Health is a medical network of three hospitals and two major health centers in the Dayton region. Premier Health, which employs 14,000 workers, is the second-largest employer in the Dayton region and ninth-largest employer in Ohio. [2] They contribute about $2 billion a year in positive economic impact. [3] Hospitals included in the ...
A new bill on its way to President Biden's desk will boost the Social Security benefits for thousands of retired cops, firefighters, teachers and public servants in Texas.
By August 2014, MedAssets had become the largest GPO in the United States. [6] The company became publicly traded in 2007. [ 7 ] MedAssets expanded its services over time and offerings included cost and clinical resource management, purchasing and revenue cycle solutions, change management consulting, and data-driven analytic software.
Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center is a 266 [1]-licensed bed acute care facility located in Rockville, Maryland. Shady Grove Medical Center provides a range of health services to the community such as high-risk obstetrical care, cardiac and vascular care, oncology services, orthopedic care, surgical services and pediatric care.