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Ochsner Clinic Foundation Receives MedAssets' Humanitarian Award for Hurricane Relief Efforts
Ochsner Clinic Foundation Receives MedAssets' Humanitarian Award for Hurricane Relief Efforts
Published 05-12-05
Submitted by MedAssets
The award was presented during MedAssets Annual Meeting in Las Vegas to recognize Ochsner for its diligent efforts in gathering and transporting supplies and generators to Baptist Hospital where the staff was working without water, electricity or an outbound phone system.
A phone call to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola was one of many Warner Thomas, president and COO at Ochsner Clinic Foundation, and his management team placed that evening to hospitals along the hurricane's path. Relief efforts for Baptist Hospital began immediately with Ochsner employees and vendor Owens & Minor locating supplies and arranging transportation of the items by tractor-trailer to Pensacola. Baptist Hospital was operating on generators the next day.
"As healthcare providers, we're apt at handling crisis situations and working together to save lives," said Thomas. "We luckily escaped the destruction and knew if we found ourselves in a similar situation we would want people to reach out to help us."
"We admire Ochsner Clinic Foundation's determination and resourcefulness in providing aid to a fellow healthcare provider," said John Bardis, chairman, president, CEO of MedAssets. "Locating the scarce supplies and maneuvering through treacherous conditions, exemplifies the exceptional effort and commitment the Outstanding Humanitarian Award was created to recognize."
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Ochsner Clinic Foundation is a not-for-profit, fully integrated health care delivery system, with a 478-bed acute care hospital and a 71-bed sub-acute facility (Ochsner Clinic Foundation Elmwood Medical Center), employing over 600 physicians in 70 medical specialties. Ochsner offers services in 26 clinics located throughout Southeast Louisiana.
About MedAssets
MedAssets, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, improves healthcare providers' margin and cash flow through revenue cycle and supply chain initiatives. As a strategic business partner, MedAssets can replace multiple vendors and decrease supply costs by 3-10 % and increase net patient revenue by 1-3 %. Proprietary information technology is used to work with and improve existing IT assets and work processes. MedAssets, through its revenue cycle subsidiary MedAssets Net Revenue Systems, provides best-of-breed revenue solutions including strategic pricing, pre-bill charge capturing, and ongoing chargemaster management tools, all of which have been Peer Reviewed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. In addition, MedAssets offers the only technology enabled system that links supply cost data with charge data to ensure accurate charges and defendable markups for all patient identifiable supplies, including costly medical devices. MedAssets, through its supply chain subsidiary MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, operates the fastest growing group purchasing organization and supply chain services company in the U.S. and builds customized solutions encompassing procurement of common medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, physician preference supplies, food and nutrition items, and capital equipment. For more information about MedAssets go to www.medassets.com or contact Gary Johnson, vice president of Marketing and Marketing Services, 100 North Point Center East, Suite 200, Alpharetta, GA 30022.
