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ECRI Announces 2025 Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award Winners

On October 7, 2025, ECRI, a respected nonprofit organization dedicated to patient safety, announced the winners of its prestigious Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award. This annual recognition celebrates U.S. healthcare organizations that exemplify excellence in supply chain management, focusing on overall spend management and integrating best practices into their processes.

Tim Browne, ECRI's Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions, emphasized that excellence in supply chain management transcends mere cost reduction; it involves collaboration, standardization, and informed decision-making. Award-winning organizations have displayed an ability to streamline vendor consolidations for increased efficiency, mitigate infection risks through evidence-based selection of products, and achieve substantial savings through effective benchmarking strategies. These achievements illustrate how well-managed supply chains can serve as powerful strategic assets in healthcare.

The honorees for ECRI’s 2025 Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award include:

• - Broward Health – Fort Lauderdale, FL
• - Chesapeake Regional Medical Center – Chesapeake, VA
• - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – Columbus, OH
• - Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center – Pomona, CA
• - The Queen's Health Systems – Honolulu, HI
• - Stanford Medicine Supply Chain – Palo Alto, CA
• - United Health Services Hospitals, Inc. – Binghamton, NY
• - University Hospital – Newark, NJ
• - UChicago Medicine – Chicago, IL
• - University of Missouri Health Care – Columbia, MO
• - Nicklaus Children's Health System – Miami, FL
• - VCU Health – Richmond, VA

This year marks the fourteenth edition of these awards, showcasing members of ECRI's supply chain service portfolio who exhibit exemplary usage of services throughout the procurement lifecycle, including budgeting, benchmarking, technology assessments, and strategic planning. During the selection process, ECRI assessed each candidate's spend management and market analytics efforts related to capital medical devices, supplies, physician preference items, service contracts, and reagents.

Stuart Morris-Hipkins, ECRI’s Chief Solutions Officer, noted the crucial role strategic supply chain management plays in enhancing patient care. The demonstrated success of these organizations affirms that data-driven decisions not only generate significant savings, but also empower clinical teams to devote their attention to what truly matters – patient care.

ECRI’s initiatives have uncovered over $13 billion in potential savings opportunities annually by utilizing combined datasets focused on capital and supply. In the past year alone, ECRI analyzed nearly $86 billion in supply and capital expenditures, supporting the ongoing needs of over 4,000 U.S. hospitals, health systems, surgical centers, and medical groups participating in the organization’s sourcing and supply chain programs.

ECRI continues to advance its mission by providing integrated technology decision support solutions aimed at reducing clinical expenditures while improving patient outcomes for healthcare organizations of all sizes and types. For more information about ECRI's services, individuals can reach out via email at [email protected] or by calling (610) 825-6000, ext. 5891.

About ECRI

Founded over fifty-five years ago, ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness across all healthcare settings. Renowned for its commitment to technology evaluation and safety, ECRI enjoys the respect of healthcare leaders and agencies globally. ECRI uniquely conducts independent medical device evaluations at its labs located in North America and the Asia Pacific region, and is recognized as an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In recent years, ECRI has expanded its influence by acquiring organizations like The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and The Just Culture Company to address significant issues in healthcare, including medication errors and workplace culture transformations. Learn more about their impactful work by visiting www.ecri.org.