Web-Based Contract Catalog offers 100% transparency on every contract for rapid access to contract detail, line item pricing, terms and conditions and availability. 

• Leveraging the size of the aggregate and unified buying power of the clients
• Aligning clinical consensus to deliver quality products for optimal financial value

• RHA delivers industry leading value for providers and patients they serve through unique sourcing strategies that proactively aligns clinical input and sound business principles to deliver sustainable cost reductions.
• Member choice for participation in Rural Health Alliance Regional Contracts, Vizient/Provista National Contracts, and Local Vanderbilt Contracts.

• Assess your operations using data and a consultative approach
• Advise you on a tailored action plan based upon your goals
• Implement best practices and solutions for financial, operational, and clinical improvement
• Sustain improvement through technology tools and process improvement strategies

•  ECRI’s mission is to research the best approaches for safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness in healthcare, ultimately enabling your organization to improve patient care. ECRI is dedicated to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best, all to enable you to improve patient care.
• Identifies additional savings where a supplier quotes a price higher than our contracted rate.

Vizient is the nation’s largest member-owned health care services company. Backed by network-powered insights in the critical areas of clinical, operational and supply chain performance, Vizient™ empowers members to deliver exceptional, cost-effective care at every turn. Together with our members, we are fueling new business models and new approaches to care—all through the power of brilliant connectivity. With more than $100 billion in purchasing power and 90% product coverage, we’re connecting customers with top contracts from the nation’s leading suppliers. Vizient is the largest GPO in the industry.  By offering the most competitive contract portfolio for supplies and services, along with actionable analytics and expert advisory services, we are able to deliver significant return on members’ investments in operational and supply chain efficiency. Learn more about Vizient by visiting their website.

Provista is a part of Vizient.  Vizient focuses on acute care facilities and Provista has a complete focus in the non-acute market. Provista is working with 160,000+ customer’s around the continuum of care.  Provista saved the average customer 13.7% in 2015 through 1,735+ contracts by aggregating and leveraging $100 billion in combined purchasing power. Learn more about Provista by visiting their website.

RHA partnered with Vanderbilt Supply Chain System Collaborative in 2015 to provide deep contractual discounts to RHA members.  Members have access to Vanderbilt's contract portfolio on a contract by contract basis. 

VSCSC allows a focused and joint approach to lowering overall supply, pharmaceutical, and purchased service expense through contracting to promote lower health costs and high quality care within our communities.  Vanderbilt drives value by reducing costs through aggregation of volumes on physician preference items or commodity items where the local market can drive commitment.

Learn more about Vanderbilt by clicking here.

The Rural Health Alliance has always been and continues to be committed to being a member driven program, driving not only cost savings but also networking opportunities. There are a number of Advisory Committees in place to help service the RHA membership. These Purchase Advisory Committees (PAC), comprised of committed RHA members, currently help direct the program in the areas Dietary, Laboratory, Materials Management, Pharmacy and Radiology. All primary members are invited to participate in the committee process and you are encouraged to contact RHA if you have any questions!

Group Buy purchasing events will deliver substantial cost savings on capital expenditures above and beyond our standard contract portfolio. The Group Buy and Bulk Buy purchasing events aggregate a large quality of similar, medical device items into a single sourcing event.

Group Buys are hosted four events per year/quarterly planned savings.

Bulk Buy is a special one time negotiated price enhancement that is beneficial to our customers.

Quote Review:  

• Identifies additional savings where a supplier quotes a price higher than our contracted rate; Identifies incorrect terms and conditions
• Review allows members to determine if they want to move forward with cutting a PO or ask for amendments.

ECRI Institute:

• ECRI’s mission is to research the best approaches for safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness in healthcare, ultimately enabling your organization to improve patient care. ECRI is dedicated to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best, all to enable you to improve patient care.

• To leverage committed volume to obtain best-in-industry pricing and value in commodity-type categories.
• Commit in advance of the final award to utilize the qualified supplier that puts the best proposal on the table.
• Committed volume of Vizient customers provides the negotiating leverage to drive best pricing in the market.

• Hospitals are among the most expensive institutions to build and maintain. In the era of value-based care, only build more space after applying market intelligence and discovering more capacity in your existing space.  Capital and Medical Equipment Planning looks at an entire space, optimizes the layout and ensures the right equipment is sourced as cost-effectively as possible.
• Savings of 5-10% through standardization on materials, equipment and services in maintenance repair and operations.  Fee for service model.