Amerinet Announces Achievement Award Winners

Written by Staff | April 21, 2010

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Amerinet, a leading healthcare group purchasing organization, announced the winners of its second annual Amerinet Healthcare Achievement Awards, which honor Amerinet members that excel in reducing healthcare costs and improving healthcare quality, according to an Amerinet news release.
"These awards recognize and celebrate members who are innovators, collaborators and leaders," Todd Ebert, Amerinet president and CEO, said in the release. "Utilizing Amerinet's diverse portfolio of contract services and solutions, these nominees successfully meet the challenges of the healthcare industry and deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care."

The awards recognize superior performance in the areas of financial and operational improvements, quality and patient care delivery, supply chain and data management and community impact.

Facility categories include acute-care facilities under 300 beds, acute-care facilities over 300 beds, IDNs and critical access hospitals. In the alternate care sector, categories included surgery centers, long-term care facilities, physician offices and clinics. All entries were evaluated on a rigorous set of criteria by a panel of expert judges.

The 18 winners will be honored at the 2010 Amerinet Member Conference in Nashville, Tenn., on May 18.

The honorees in each category are as follows:

Community Impact and/or Innovation
• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Pittsburgh
• Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles, Wash.
• Wetzel County Hospital, New Martinsville, W.Va.

Financial and Operational Improvement
• Cape Cod Healthcare, Inc., Hyannis, Mass.
• Southern Mono Healthcare District, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

Quality/Patient Care Delivery and/or Patient Satisfaction
• ACMH Hospital, Kittanning, Pa.
• Adena Health/Adena Rehabilitation and Wellness Center, Chillicothe, Ohio
• Grande Ronde Hospital, La Grande, Ore.
• Illinois State University, Normal, Ill.
• Lakeview Village, Lenexa, Kan.
• Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital & Clinics, Prairie du Sac, Wis.
• St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.

Supply Chain/Data Management or Supply Cost Efficiencies
• Harrison Medical Center, Bremerton, Wash.
• Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
• Northern Arizona Healthcare, Flagstaff, Ariz.
• United General Hospital, Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
• Virginia Regional Medical Center, Virginia, Minn.


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