How Premier Helps Hospitals

Premier's ultimate goal is to transform American healthcare in ways that make it safer, more efficient and more effective. Premier devotes resources to help our member hospitals achieve these goals by:

• Safely reducing the cost of medical care

Through Premier's supply chain programs and services, we provide purchasing efficiency and expertise that time- and budget-constrained hospitals may not achieve on their own. By contracting on behalf of our 1,700 members' collective buying needs, we make volume purchases and deliver the highest quality products at significantly reduced prices.

• Sharing nationwide healthcare knowledge locally

Premier offers continuous learning forums, publications and Web-enabled seminars for clinicians and other experts to share new strategies, best practices and lessons learned on patient-care issues. Our members use our network to expand their knowledge of issues such as unique device identification, perinatal care, pay-for-performance, environmentally preferable purchasing and more.

• Strengthening performance

We provide comprehensive online tools that allow hospitals to measure, benchmark and report on their clinical performance. Premier also provides full-time consulting services designed to help hospitals improve their patient satisfaction rates, departmental productivity and financial performance.