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Newswise — CLEVELAND–University Hospitals (UH) pharmacy leadership team has received the 2024 High-Value Pharmacy Award from Premier, Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, for its demonstrated exceptional leadership and success in creating a pharmacy organization that delivers differentiated value for patients. The High-Value Pharmacy Award recognizes superior performance and operations from across Premier’s membership of more than 4,350 hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers and organizations.  

The team’s recognized efforts include:

• Implementing a standard process for opportunity identification, savings monitoring, and contracting
• Publishing in peer-reviewed journals on biosimilar savings and strategy best practices (Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2022;79:268-275. )
• Serving as a founding member of the wholesaler distribution review with Premier’s SURPASS® program, which is designed to drive additional value through purchasing volume and commitment.
• Developing a standard evaluation process of 503b vendors
• Leveraging Premier’s Service Line Analytics (SLA) technology for utilization benchmarking
• UH pharmacy leaders engaging in Premier committees and sharing experiences and best practices with other Premier members.

“Congratulations to the UH pharmacy leadership team for their exceptional performance that led to this recognition,” said UH Chief Operating Officer Paul R. Hinchey, MD. “Implementing standardized processes and identifying and applying best practices within their field helps to ensure our continued success in providing high quality healthcare to our patients.”

The 2024 High-Value Pharmacy Award was formally presented to the UH pharmacy leadership team on July 25 at Premier’s 2024 Breakthroughs Conference & Exhibition.  

The UH pharmacy leadership team highlighted in this award includes: Michael Carlin, Matthew McGuire, Jacalyn Rogers, James Reissig, Alexsandra Nilges, Bridget Gegorski and Indrani Kar.

“Enhancing pharmacy operations is essential to an organization’s ability to serve its patients and community,” said Jessica Daley, Chief Pharmacy Officer at Premier. “We celebrate the University Hospitals pharmacy leadership team’s efforts as well as its commitment to share best practices with the broader Premier alliance.”  

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About University Hospitals / Cleveland, Ohio
Founded in 1866, University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of more than 20 hospitals (including five joint ventures), more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200 physician offices in 16 counties throughout northern Ohio. The system’s flagship quaternary care, academic medical center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Oxford University, Taiwan University and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. The main campus also includes the UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the nation; UH MacDonald Women's Hospital, Ohio's only hospital for women; and UH Seidman Cancer Center, part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. UH is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and research programs in the nation, with more than 3,000 active clinical trials and research studies underway. UH Cleveland Medical Center is perennially among the highest performers in national ranking surveys, including “America’s Best Hospitals” from U.S. News & World Report. UH is also home to 19 Clinical Care Delivery and Research Institutes. UH is one of the largest employers in Northeast Ohio with more than 30,000 employees. Follow UH on , and . For more information, visit .

About Premier, Inc.
Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,350 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on ; as well as , , , ,  a²Ô»å  for more information about the company.