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Affiliate Program History

The Adventist Health Affiliate Program was established in 1999 to provide value to California healthcare organizations, especially rural, community-based hospitals. Because Adventist Health’s GPO contracted spend exceeded $1 billion, it was able to qualify for higher tiers and often negotiated even better, enhanced tiers for its owned facilities. The lower pricing provided considerable value to smaller organizations that could not qualify for the higher tiers on their own, and the membership grew.

Because of the success of the Affiliate Program and value being provided, Adventist Health expanded beyond California hospitals and to non-acute facilities and hospitality companies, such as Boy Scouts of America dba Scouting America. Membership continued to grow, and as the contracted GPO spend increased from the Affiliate members’ spend, Adventist Health was able to leverage the increased spend to get even better pricing and value for its owned facilities and members.

In addition to the value of the Adventist Health enhanced contract portfolio, the Affiliate team provided purchasing and contract management support services to its members. Many members were understaffed and needed the extra hands and eyes for spend analytics, resolving pricing discrepancies, and holding suppliers accountable. Therefore, many members valued the Affiliate services as much as the savings from Adventist Health’s lower pricing. Membership grew to the point where the contracted spend equaled that of the Adventist Health owned, leased and managed facilities.

After the pandemic, just like many other healthcare organizations facing financial challenges, Adventist Health evaluated it’s GPO relationship. Adventist Health used Deloitte to conduct a GPO RFP in 2023 with Loma Linda University Health and Kettering Health, and based on the considerable savings and value offered, made the decision to convert to Vizient in early 2024.

We have had a very successful conversion to Vizient’s GPO and are on track to exceed our savings projections, as are our Affiliates that made the conversion with us. In fact, we have found Vizient’s pricing in some categories to be 20%-plus better than our previous GPO’s best committed tier pricing we were accessing. Furthermore, the Affiliates’ administrative fee sharebacks are greater based on the higher shareback we receive from Vizient.

We continue to increase our membership and expand our services and value. If you are interested in exploring membership with our Adventist Health Affiliate Program, please complete the form to provide general information about your organization and needs, and someone from the Affiliate team will reach out to answer your questions and walk you through the sign-up process. We look forward to speaking with you.