ROi is Named an "Elite 18" Supply Chain to Watch

In its November 2011 issue, Healthcare Purchasing News has recognized ROi as one of the "Elite 18" Supply Chains to watch. The publication stated that it has "decided to expand its exclusive annual celebrations of supply chain operations beyond the three renowned titles we bestow: The HPN Supply Chain Department of the Year Award in the late summer, the HPN Sterile Processing and Distribution Department of the Year Award in late spring and the HPN supply chain-focused CEO S.U.R.E. awards in January. We wanted to shine a spotlight, albeit briefly, on those organizations achieving noteworthy, if not remarkable, self-reported results, by highlighting some of their accomplishments and goals in an easy-to-read, educational and entertaining format."

Here is what the publication said about ROi:

"To populate a Supply Chain Operations Worth Watching list you'd be hard-pressed to leave out two prominent organizations. This is the other one. If you're looking for a poster child on how to work with your GPO to learn how to function as your own GPO and then venture out on your own without tacitly tarnishing that or any GPO while promoting the benefits of group purchasing, self-contracting and self-distribution as mutually exclusive functions, then look no further than Mercy's Resource Optimization and Innovation (ROi) group. Not only does ROi have its hands on the pulse of its healthcare facility members in terms of supply chain excellence, but it has developed revenue-generating and financially sustaining enterprises to balance its focus on system-wide expense management and efficient operations. While this only represents part of why it's worth watching this organization, witness its dedicated, focused and rapid response to the destruction of one of its hospitals in tornado-stricken Joplin, MO (read more in the January 2012 edition of HPN) as but one anecdote that demonstrates its customer focus and service delivery."

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