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HealthTrust honors member organizations for excellence, sustainability and innovation HealthTrust has singled out six mem-
Clinical Excellence – Southwest
Clinical Pharmacy Member Support to
ber organizations for supply chain excel-
Health System, Cortez, Colo. for the
improve biosimilar conversions and other
lence, social stewardship, and innovation
health system’s COVID response
key therapeutic areas.
benefitting their patients, stakeholders,
including education campaigns to
and communities.
provide information to rural community
FHFMA, corporate senior vice
members as well as vaccination initiatives
president, ancillary operations
Outstanding Member – Surgery Partners, Brentwood, Tenn. for initiatives to achieve optimal value and performance using HealthTrust contracts and offerings primarily in the areas of neurostimulation, spine and osteobiologics. Over the past 18 months, Surgery Partners’ overall adoption of oncontract supplies, category utilization and strategic sourcing agreements has steadily increased resulting in lower supply expense and achievement of supply chain objectives.
ʯ Rick Salzer, senior vice president,
focused on rural communities.
ʯ Marc Meyer, RPh, BPharm, CIC, FAPIC, director of pharmacy and
chain manager
ʯ Joye Booher, senior director, procurement and supply chain
ʯ Kathy Kilgore, senior analyst of purchasing
ʯ Jessica Rodriguez, senior supply chain manager, Rx
leader outpatient pharmacy
ʯ Lindsay Yeager, RPSGT, CCSH, director of sleep services
PLUS, Brentwood, Tenn. for driving ef™
ficiencies in contract, spend and leveraged savings opportunities.
ʯ Jeff Kimmell, RPh, senior vice president, supply chain; president, PLUS
ʯ Kim Milliken, director, supply chain ʯ Susan Dorsey, associate vice
ʯ Christopher Alvarez, director of patient access
ʯ Hardi Tjhie, CPhT, prior authorization technician specialist
ʯ Kathy Kim, BS, CPhT, prior ʯ Betty Richardson, RPh, clinical pharmacist
ʯ Matthew Lindsay, NR-Paramedic, CCEMTP, director of EMS/ambulance
ʯ Erin Lowrey, CPhT, prior authorization technician specialist
ʯ Angela Rosenblatt, MS, PharmD, Social Stewardship – St. Luke’s Health
BCPS, BCNSP, APh, corporate
System, Boise, Idaho for transitioning
director of pharmacy,
to reusable sterilization containers in re-
ambulatory services
sponse to shortages of Blue Wrap, resulting in reduced waste and cost savings.
ʯ Adrian Wengert, MBA, vice president, supply chain
Innovation Award – LCMC Health, New Orleans, La. for executing a longterm agreement centered on Energy-
ʯ Jason Merrill, senior director, ʯ Kacey Wear, MSN, RN, BSN, CEN, clinical category director
as-a-Service (EaaS) in six regional facilities resulting in cost savings and substantial reduction of the health system’s carbon footprint. Savings
ʯ LaNae Cunningham, manager, sterile processing
from the EaaS arrangement will aid investment in core healthcare initiatives
ʯ Taylor Easterday, MBA Finance, KT, logistics manager
and immediate improvements to better serve the community.
ʯ Sam Roberts, MBA, finance director
ʯ Joseph Thibodeaux, MBA, vice president, chief resource officer
Pharmacy Excellence – Scripps Health,
president, supply chain operations
San Diego, Calif. for early adoption of
ʯ Tracy LaChance, director, supply chain ʯ Dwayne Gunter, president, QHR
a medication central prior authorization
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assistant vice president pharmacy
ʯ Aaron Ginsberg, PharmD, director
authorization technician specialist
supply chain management Operational Excellence – QHR Health,
ʯ Tony Jackson, PharmD, MBA,
of central pharmacy services
infection control
ʯ Kelsey Gilbert, PharmD, pharmacist
procurement and supply chain
ʯ Natalie Gustafson, senior supply
ʯ Lisa Risser, CPA, MBA, FACHE,
initiative and working with HealthTrust
ʯ Stephanie Grant, BBA, CMRP, purchasing director
ʯ Clifford (C.T.) Harlan, senior director of operations
October 2021 | The Journal of Healthcare Contracting
