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Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of Fame opens nominations for 2025 award classes

SCHAUMBURG, IL (November 11, 2024) — Bellwether League FoundationTM and its Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Hall of FameTM invites nominations for its Future Famers, Ammer Honoree and Bellwether Classes of 2025.

Future Famer recognition features all-stars within the first dozen years of their careers, shining a spotlight on some of the innovative and progressive projects they implement that make a difference within their organizations, and within the profession and industry.

Ammer Honoree recognition honors entrepreneurial executives and professionals in the middle of their careers that showcase their skills and talents through innovative leadership and influential project management experience.

Bellwether recognition salutes the entire careers of innovative and pioneering leaders in the healthcare supply chain whose efforts and achievements have left an indelible mark of exemplary performance and quality service on their organizations and the industry.

Visit BLF online at https://www.bellwetherleague.org/nominations.php to download the official 2025 nomination forms for Future Famer, Ammer Honoree and Bellwether recognition. You also can access the assessment criteria the Board of Directors uses and watch a video highlighting the process.

The submission deadline for Future Famer, Ammer Honoree and Bellwether Honoree nominations:
Monday, February 3, 2025.

Mark your calendars: The 18th Annual Bellwether League Foundation Induction & Recognition Event (BLFIRE18), is scheduled for Monday, October 6, 2025, at a college yet to be determined.

For photos and videos of BLFIRE17 last month at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, click on the following links: https://www.bellwetherleague.org/sliders/gallery.php and https://www.bellwetherleague.org/sliders/videos.php.

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.