Staritas Recognizes 12 Healthcare Organizations with 2026 Supply Chain Excellence Award

BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Award recipients demonstrate the growing strategic role of data and market intelligence in healthcare purchasing decisions.

Staritas, a healthcare supply chain intelligence company, today announced the recipients of its 2026 Supply Chain Excellence Award, recognizing healthcare organizations demonstrating strong performance in supply chain management and the use of data, benchmarking and market intelligence to improve decision-making.

This recognition comes as hospitals face continued pressure from rising supply, technology and operating costs, making supply chain expertise and access to market intelligence increasingly critical to identifying savings opportunities and informing strategic purchasing decisions.

The 2026 recipients include health systems and hospitals across 10 states:

• Bon Secours Mercy Health — Blue Ash, Ohio
• Bronson Healthcare — Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Inova — Fairfax, Virginia
• Jackson Health System — Miami, Florida
• Montefiore Einstein— Bronx, New York
• MU Healthcare — University of Missouri — Columbia, Missouri
• Northeast Georgia Health System — Gainesville, Georgia
• The Queen’s Health Systems — Honolulu, Hawaii
• United Health Services Hospitals, Inc. — Binghamton, New York
• Universal Health Services — King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
• VCU Health — Richmond, Virginia
• WakeMed Health & Hospitals — Raleigh, NC

“Healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to control costs without compromising the resources clinicians and patients depend on,” said Emmet O’Gara, Chief Executive Officer of Staritas. “This year’s recipients demonstrate how leading supply chain organizations are responding by bringing greater rigor, visibility and insight to decisions that can have a meaningful impact across the enterprise.”

The award recognizes organizations that demonstrate effective use of market intelligence and benchmarking to identify savings opportunities, evaluate purchasing decisions and improve spend management across multiple supply and capital categories.

Finding Opportunity Beyond Price

Healthcare supply chain teams influence decisions that extend well beyond negotiating the price of individual products. From capital equipment and purchased services to physician preference items, utilization and standardization, supply chain leaders have an opportunity to influence not only acquisition cost, but also operational performance and the allocation of healthcare resources.

The Staritas Supply Chain Excellence Award recognizes this broader impact across medical supplies, capital equipment, physician preference items, service contracts and reagents.

“What stands out about this year’s recipients is how they turn intelligence into action,” said Stuart Morris-Hipkins, Chief Operating Officer of Staritas. “They are looking across categories, questioning variation, and using market evidence to focus their teams on the opportunities that can have the greatest impact.”

About Staritas

Staritas helps healthcare supply chain leaders around the world make more informed decisions so they can understand market trends and better manage all aspects of their supply chain. With Staritas, they can see all the options with the largest independent source of supply and capital data, seize the opportunities with access to deep industry expertise, and achieve their organizational goals. That’s why nearly 90% of the top U.S. hospitals and health systems trust our five decades of expertise for their most important supply chain and recall management decisions. And it’s how our clients identify up to $13 billion in potential savings opportunities every year. Staritas. Make every choice clear. Learn more at www.staritas.com.

Samantha DiPino
Staritas
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sdipino@staritas.com
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