PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Seagate Alliance LLC, an owner of Premier is now more than 15 years old with its beginnings in the early 1990's when a group of hospital and nursing home executives saw the need to join a national group purchasing company. Seagate has become one of the largest owners of Premier, with purchasing volume approaching $250 million. Given the fact that Premier has become the largest GPO in the nation, Seagate members now enjoy the nation’s most favorable pricing advantages for virtually everything they purchase from soup to MRI machines. In order to further maximize the benefits of our national partner, Seagate, along with two other Premier owners, Rochester General Health System in Rochester, New York, and Vantage Healthcare in Meadville, Pennsylvania, have banded together to form the Great Lakes Purchasing Collaborative. While each of these Premier owner organizations maintains their own revenue streams and corporate structures, by forming the GLPC we are able to aggregate our volumes and negotiate with vendors as if our collective members were one integrated delivery network, allowing us to achieve even better pricing and/or terms and conditions for our collective members than we could on our own, resulting in even more costs being driven out of our member organizations.

Seagate’s experienced staff ensure that our members maximize every opportunity afforded through our regional and national partnerships. These specialists stand ready to serve you as you strive to reduce costs, gain efficiencies and improve quality in a very challenging environment.

We would welcome a call from any health care or health care related provider, or any college or school, regardless of your location, if you would like to determine whether a relationship with Seagate and Premier would assist you in any way. We would be happy to provide you with a no cost, no obligation analysis of our programs, contract pricing, and services.

In 2008 fifty-four more organizations became members and are noted in our annual report. To learn more about what happened in 2008 at Seagate and our related “family of companies” organizations, please take a look at our 2008 Annual Report by clicking on the link below, and then consider giving us a call to see how we might help your organization improve your bottom line. We look forward to hearing from you.