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The Health Alliance's Dennis Robb Wins 2008 Corris Boyd Leadership and Diversity Award From Federation of American Hospitals

Posted on: Monday, 3 March 2008, 09:01 CST

Dennis Robb, senior vice president, supply chain management, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, was recently awarded the 2008 Corris Boyd Leadership and Diversity Award from The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH). Robb was nominated for the award by DeAnna Herrin, senior vice president, contracting services, and David Klumpe, senior vice president, enterprise accounts, Broadlane.

The Corris Boyd Leadership and Diversity Award was established by FAH to pay tribute to the late Corris Boyd and honor a company or individual who has made an outstanding contribution in fostering leadership and supplier diversity in the healthcare industry.

"When Ken Hanover, CEO of the Health Alliance, set a goal to increase supplier diversity and economic inclusion, he chose Dennis as the executive sponsor to lead the initiative," said Ruby Kern, vice president, enterprise accounts, Broadlane. "Dennis' charge was to increase diverse supplier spending from $5 million to $23 million, but first he needed the appropriate infrastructure. One of the first things he did was work with Broadlane to create a process for tracking and strategic implementation of the initiative."

In 10 months, The Health Alliance reached and exceeded the $23 million target with certified diverse suppliers and was recognized with awards from the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. The number of diverse suppliers grew 360 percent over a year.

"We are very proud of our economic inclusion program and the tremendous growth it has experienced over the past several years," said Gloria Haffer, Esq., board chair of The Health Alliance. "Our achievements are directly related to the leadership and talent Dennis Robb brought to this initiative. He skillfully fostered an environment of cooperation, inclusion and commitment throughout the system that took us to new heights in supplier diversity. We congratulate Dennis on this outstanding recognition and thank him for his leadership of this initiative, which has given back more than $43 million to our community in two years."

"The Health Alliance is a model client, and we support their commitment to supplier diversity," said Herrin. "Dennis' priority has always been seeking diverse suppliers, and he has such a passion for this initiative. There is nobody more deserving of this award."

About FAH and Corris Boyd

The Federation of American Hospitals is the national representative of investor-owned or managed hospitals and health systems. Their members include general community and teaching hospitals in urban and rural areas as well as rehabilitation, long-term acute care, cancer and psychiatric hospitals.

Before his untimely death from leukemia in December 2005, Corris Boyd was vice president for supply chain optimization at Triad Hospitals, Inc. and served as executive vice president of supplier diversity for the HealthTrust Purchasing Group. He was previously a member of the leadership team for the HCA Pacific Group and an assistant vice president with HCA in Nashville. Corris also served on the Federation of American Hospitals' Exposition Advisory Board for many years and was a former chairman of the committee. He committed his life to diversity and excellence in healthcare. He believed that leadership development is crucial to success and was devoted to the success of minority- and women-owned business enterprises.

About The Health Alliance

The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, which includes the University, Jewish and Fort Hamilton hospitals, Drake Center, West Chester Medical Center and the physicians of Alliance Primary Care, continues to be Cincinnati's largest healthcare provider and recently expanded its physician practice by acquiring Greater Cincinnati Associated Physicians. The Health Alliance, which employs 7,800 people, has been recognized for its progressive supplier diversity and disability services programs. For more information on the Health Alliance, visit www.health-alliance.com.

About Broadlane

Broadlane, a leading supply chain services company that provides technology-oriented business solutions to improve the financial and operational performance of thousands of acute care hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, physician practices and other healthcare providers throughout the United States. Broadlane provides comprehensive supply chain services including:

High-powered national & custom contracting

Innovative Procurement Services & technology

Informatics -- benchmarking, analytics and reporting

Deep clinical & operational expertise

High-touch client service

Broadlane's clients include leading providers such as Advocate Health Care, Ascension Health, CHRISTUS Health, Continuum Health Partners, Kaiser Permanente, Kindred Healthcare, MedCath Corporation, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Tenet Healthcare, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, US Oncology, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, UMass Memorial Health Care and William Beaumont Hospitals.

The company is headquartered in Dallas with offices in California, Houston, New York and Ohio. For more information, visit www.broadlane.com

You can download an image of Dennis Robb here: http://www.broadlane.com/media_library/Robb_Dennis.jpg

Source: Business Wire

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