The Global Healthcare Exchange revealed March 14 its list of the top 50 supply chains among hospitals and health systems.
To create the ranking, GHX evaluated metrics including purchasing volume, exception rates, exchange utilization and the number of trading partner connections in 2022. More than 4,100 organizations, which annually processed more than 10,000 purchase orders, were considered for the ranking.
The organization has published this list every year since 2015, but after this ranking, it will sunset the award because "times have changed and so have the metrics," GHX said, as medical supply chains become more automated. It will refresh the best 50 list with a "perfect order" distinction award in early 2024.
Here are the top 50, which GHX announced in alphabetical order:
1. Allina Health (Minneapolis)
2. Aspirus Health (Wausau, Wis.)
3. Baptist Health (Little Rock, Ark.)
4. Blanchard Valley Health System (Findlay, Ohio)
5. Catholic Health (Buffalo, N.Y.)
6. Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
7. Children's of Alabama (Birmingham)
8. Community Hospital of the Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula
9. El Camino Health (Mountain View, Calif.)
10. Greater Baltimore Medical Center
11. Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.)
12. Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, Pa.)
13. Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health
14. Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
15. MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.)
16. Mercy (Chesterfield, Mo.)
17. MetroHealth System (Cleveland)
18. Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
19. Mohawk Medbuy Corp. (Burlington, Ontario)
20. MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.)
21. NYC Health + Hospitals
22. NYU Langone Health (New York City)
23. Parkland Health (Dallas)
24. Riverside Health System (Newport News, Va.)
25. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
26. RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.)
27. San Antonio Regional Hospital (Upland, Calif.)
28. Scripps Health (San Diego)
29. Seattle Children's
30. St. Luke's Health System (Boise, Idaho)
31. Summa Health (Akron, Ohio)
32. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital
33. TMC Health (Tucson, Ariz.)
34. Trinity Health Corporation (Livonia, Mich.)
35. UAB Medicine Enterprise (Birmingham, Ala.)
36. UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
37. UC Irvine Health
38. UC San Diego Health
39. UCLA Health
40. UCSF Health (San Francisco)
41. UF Health Shands (Gainesville, Fla.)
42. UNC Health (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
43. United Health Services (Binghamton, N.Y.)
44. University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City)
45. UVA Health (Charlottesville, Va.)
46. UW Medicine-Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
47. UW Medicine-University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
48. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
49. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (Seattle)
50. Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health