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Bellwether League, Inc. BLF salutes Gartner's Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024

SCHAUMBURG, IL (November 11, 2024) — Bellwether League Foundation™ proudly recognizes and salutes the Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024 as essential partners in the continuing mission to shine a light on supply chain excellence.

Of the 25 making Gartner's esteemed list this year, nearly three-quarters (17) are valued members of the Bellwether Community in that they employ — or have employed — leaders who have earned Bellwether Honoree, Ammer Honoree and/or Future Famer recognition by the Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame™, and/or they represent active sponsorship of BLF itself. This includes esteemed inductees from the Bellwether Classes of 2009 and 2010, one of whom passed in 2020 and the other in 1965.

  • The Bellwether Community members include:
  • AdventHealth
  • Stanford Health Care
  • Bon Secours Mercy Health
  • Banner Health
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • Rush Health
  • BJC HealthCare
  • CommonSpirit Health
  • Ochsner Health System
  • Allina Health
  • Trinity Health
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • UPMC
  • Ascension
  • BayCare Health System
  • HCA Healthcare
  • Vanderbilt Health

Bellwether League Foundation appreciates and respects the achievements, contributions and differences that all 25 Gartner-recognized healthcare systems make and tip our hats to the 17 above in particular.

We invite all 25 to nominate candidates for Bellwether Honoree, Ammer Honoree and Future Famer consideration in 2025. We also extend a very special invitation to the 8 winning systems who may have yet to get to know us to reach out and take us for a test drive.

For more information on how to do that, visit Bellwether League Foundation's website at https://www.bellwetherleague.org and click on the "Awards" and "Nominations" buttons across the top for explanations and instruction.

Deadline for nominations: Monday, February 3, 2025

About Bellwether League Foundation

Bellwether League FoundationTM (BLF) is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization that offers programs to educate, endow and evaluate professionals in healthcare supply chain performance excellence. BLF accomplishes this through its primary operation, the Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of FameTM, its growing philanthropic efforts, which include Collegiate Capstone Projects and scholarships and its various multimedia properties.

The Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame evaluates and validates professionals submitted for consideration in its three award programs: Bellwether Honorees, Ammer Honorees and Future Famers. The Hall of Fame also offers educational and professional development content via the annual Bellwether Leadership Symposium and its "Leaders & Luminaries" multimedia properties of online and printed content.

The Hall of Fame selects deceased, retired and currently active professionals with a minimum of 25 years of exemplary service and leadership performance in supply chain operations that meet its criteria to be recognized publicly as Bellwether Class Honorees.

Future Famers represent supply chain professionals early in their healthcare careers (first 10- 12 years) who do not yet qualify for Bellwether consideration but have contributed meaningfully to the profession and industry.

Honorees who receive the "Dean S. Ammer Award for Healthcare Supply Chain Performance Excellence" represent noteworthy executives and professionals in the middle of their careers who, through their innovative leadership and influential project management experience, best exemplify the practice and spirit of healthcare supply chain performance excellence.

To date, the Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame has inducted 148 innovators, leaders and pioneers in healthcare supply chain management in seven distinct categories: Provider- Based Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Distribution, Group Purchasing, Consulting Services, Academia and Media. The Hall of Fame also has recognized 42 Future Famers and six Ammer Honorees.

BLF's philanthropy efforts support capstone educational and developmental projects, grants and scholarships to college-bound high school students who plan to study supply chain curricula, current college students who major in supply chain-related careers and professionals who pursue continuing education through associations and universities.

BLF salutes its six sustaining sponsors at the Founding/Platinum level — GHX, HealthTrust, Owens & Minor, Premier, Vizient and Wingfoot Media — and more than 21 additional sustaining sponsors at the Gold, Silver and Bronze levels. This is a dedicated group that represents manufacturers, distributors, group purchasing organizations (GPOs), integrated delivery networks (IDNs), consulting firms, associations and media outlets. BLF also appreciates and thanks its devoted corporate and professional donors for their generosity, participation and partnership.

Launched in late July 2007 by a group of influential veterans in the healthcare supply chain industry, Bellwether League Foundation began as a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation that upgraded to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in January 2021.