Baton Rouge General Nationally Recognized for Supply Chain Excellence

BATON ROUGE, La. – Baton Rouge General (BRG) is a winner of the Premier healthcare alliance’s Supply Chain Excellence Award. The award recognizes exceptional management of hospital supplies and resources. BRG is one of only 14 Premier members to receive the award this year.

“Never has it been more important to be responsible stewards of health care resources than over the past year, when pandemic-related supply issues affected industries across the board,” said Kendall Johnson, chief financial officer at BRG. “This award exemplifies the tireless work by our team to make sure we had the supplies and resources we needed to take care of patients and provide the highest quality care.”

Supply expense performance is measured by Premier’s SupplyFocus®, the industry’s largest comparative database of operational and supply chain cost information for acute care hospitals. Winners were identified using four industry standard supply expense ratios and a case-mix-index-based peer grouping methodology to ensure that organizations of diverse sizes and complexity were considered equally.

Premier Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,100 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 200,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare.

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About Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Baton Rouge General Medical Center is the area’s first community hospital with over 600 licensed beds between three campuses. Baton Rouge General opened its doors in 1900, and has provided the Greater Baton Rouge community with high-quality healthcare for generations. An accredited teaching hospital since 1991, Baton Rouge General is affiliated with several medical school programs, and offers other medical education programs, including a School of Nursing, School of Radiologic Technology, Family Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. For more information, visit BRGeneral.org, find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/BatonRougeGeneral and follow us on Twitter @BRGeneral and Instagram @batonrougegeneral.

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