1. Facing the pressures similar to those of large hospitals and health systems, rural hospitals, like you, are looking
to reduce its supply chain spend and standardize products. Premier’s partnership with NRHA gives you access to
Premier’s GPO contract portfolio. Take cost out of your organization, improve safety and support clinical processes.
WHY PREMIER?
Premier understands and addresses your pain points and priorities. Serving as a partner in simplifying supply chain
decisions and practices, so you can focus on improving rural healthcare delivery.
Partner with Premier to reduce supply chain expense
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OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
Make healthcare supply chain efficient
and effective
Deliver continuous improvement in cost and
quality today and enable success in new
healthcare delivery/payment models
Integrate data and collective knowledge to
deliver trusted insights and drive continuous
performance improvement

2. @PremierHA
About Premier
Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading
healthcare improvement company, uniting an
alliance of approximately 3,600 U.S. hospitals
and 120,000 other providers to transform
healthcare. With integrated data and analytics,
collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and
advisory and other services, Premier enables
better care and outcomes at a lower cost.
Premier, a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award recipient, 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.
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CREATING VALUE TOGETHER
Engaging with Premier links you with a geographic sponsor giving you
access to our services and offerings including:
Supply Chain Advisor™ (SCA) – Access the complete contract portfolio,
catalog and price activation tools and customized reports.
SupplyFocus™ – Track your supply chain expenses and benchmark your
supply chain performance against more than 800 acute care hospitals.
Quickly and easily identify cost saving opportunities.
Pharmacy Spend Advisor – Perform a detailed analysis of your pharmacy
spend and run ad hoc/customized reporting with PharmacySpend™.
Reporting capabilities include:
• Price verification for base and tier priced products
• Price parity
• Trending analysis
• Wholesaler price load confirmation
MySpend™ - Analyze your total spend and find savings opportunities using
your extracted MMIS transaction data. MySpend allows you to:
• Monitor contract utilization and compliance
• Benchmark pricing by contract, facility and product
• Analyze spending patterns by facility, department or cost center
• Evaluate different contracting options
PremierConnect® Communities – Connect and interact with more than half
of the nation’s hospitals and 100,000 care sites within the PremierConnect
platform. Share best practices, clinical, financial and outcomes data with
providers nationwide.
• PremierConnect for NRHA
• PremierConnect for critical access hospitals
Economic Outlook – Joining the alliance gives you access to Premier’s
flagship publication. It highlights emerging economic and industry trends
impacting our membership and shaping the healthcare landscape.
Trust we understand your needs. Trust we can deliver on what we promise.
Trust our goals are aligned. Support the health of rural communities
nationwide with Premier as your partner.