THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Time: 5:30 Wine and Cheese / 6:15 Speaker / 7:30 Connections at Capital Grille
Location: Law Offices of McGuire Woods (201 N Tryon St, 30th Floor)
Cost: $20 per guest; Free for members
Registration: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT - email Grace Hayes at grace@hbscharlotte.com to get on the waiting list
Hear Susan DeVore talk about views from industry leaders, Premier’s leadership role in reform and how the power of collaboration can help us transform healthcare together.
About Premier, Inc.:
Serving more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals and 63,000-plus other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Nearly 200 hospitals and health systems created and entirely own the Premier alliance. Premier’s core purpose is “To improve the health of communities.”
About Susan DeVore:
Susan D. DeVore is President and CEO of Premier Inc. Prior to her role as President and CEO, DeVore was Chief Operating Officer of Premier, leading Premier's four business units – Premier Purchasing Partners, LP; Healthcare Informatics; Premier Consulting Solutions; and Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. Prior to serving as COO of Premier, DeVore was President of Premier Purchasing Partners, which provides group purchasing and supply chain services, technologies and solutions to Premier's member hospitals and other providers. She led the purchasing division to its position as a leading GPO in the industry, with more than 2,200 members and $33 billion in purchasing volume.
DeVore has vast healthcare experience encompassing a wide variety of skills in strategy, large-scale operations transformation, quality improvement and financial management. Her leadership was instrumental in Premier's recognition as a 2006 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the 2007 Charlotte Ethics in Business Award.
She spent more than 20 years with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) as a senior healthcare industry management practice leader and member of the executive committee for the North American consulting organization. She also led high tech, manufacturing and other business units of CGEY, giving her a broad understanding of business issues and solutions across multiple industries. Those experiences, coupled with her prior experience in hospital finance, bring proven skills in leading, managing and understanding healthcare strategy, quality, operations and finance.
DeVore has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and to the magazine's list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare. She was a recipient of the 2007 Top 25 Women in Business by the Charlotte Business Journal. She also is also a member of the board of HGPII (Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative), of which Premier is a member. And she serves on the board of Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), of which Premier is an owner. GHX provides an open and neutral electronic trading exchange to improve the procurement-to-payment process in the healthcare supply chain.
DeVore is involved in the Charlotte community as a Member of the Master of Health Administration Healthcare Management Advisory Board in the Department of Public Health Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and serves on the board of the Arts & Science Council.
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When: Tuesday, 01/12/10 at 5:30pm | iCal
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| McGuire Woods, 30th Floor
201 N. Tryon St.
Charlotte, NC 28202
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Look Who's Coming:
Eileen Friars Gary Green Tim Johnson Mike Hill Jeffery Nigh Charles Powell Nancy Ridenhour Hilburn Shelton Robert Tyndall , Brookwood Associates Russell Bryan , Brookwood Associates Eric Henderson , Brookwood Associates Veechwin Li Gary Kabot Mark Weber , DARTON GROUP Guest of Mark Weber Nancy McNelis Paul Duffy , PricewaterhouseCoopers Travis Justice , PricewaterhouseCoopers Ana Pryor James Allison , Johnston Allison & Hord Darrell Shealy , Johnston, Allison & Hord Julie Szeker , Johnston, Allison & Hord ... a total of 23 guests. Note: to opt out from this list please sign in, go to My Account and change your preferences under My RSVPs.
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