Celebrating spend management visionaries
Recognizing the leaders and teams transforming healthcare through strategic, disciplined spend management.
Meet the 2026 Spend Management Visionary award winners
At the 2026 Vizient Connections Summit, award winners were celebrated during a special event that underscored both the prestige of the honor and the inspiration of their stories. This page highlights the individuals and organizations recognized this year.
2026 nomination-based winners
Recognizing transformational leadership in spend management
non-acute practice visionary winners
Recognizing non-acute practice excellence
NewYork-Presbyterian
Health system non-acute practice visionary demonstrates disciplined spend management across a complex network of care settings.
Post-Acute Medical Health
Independent non-acute practice visionary demonstrates use of data, contracts, and collaboration to deliver measurable value across an independent organization’s non-acute footprint.
Sourcing visionary winners
Recognizing strategic sourcing excellence
The Sourcing Visionary Award recognizes organizations demonstrating outstanding performance within specific spend categories through contract alignment and strong execution.
Allegheny Health Network
Medical/surgical sourcing visionary driving contract alignment, utilization, and sourcing execution across medical and surgical spend.
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Montage Health)
Capital equipment sourcing visionary optimizing capital spend under contract, contract compliance rates, and participation in Vizient-led group buy opportunities.
Mass General Brigham
Laboratory sourcing visionary aligning spend with Vizient’s contract portfolio at high compliance levels and consistent sourcing practices.
The Ohio State University Health System
Physician preference item sourcing visionary driving contract participation, sourcing engagement, market share growth, and utilization of Vizient platforms.
UAB Medicine
Indirect spend and purchased services sourcing visionary increasing year-over-year growth in contract penetration and use of Vizient sourcing solutions.
University Medical Center of El Paso
Pharmacy sourcing visionary advancing consistent contract spend, participation in pharmacy initiatives, and program compliance.
value alignment visionaries
Recognizing value alignment excellence
The Value Alignment Visionary Award recognizes organizations that consistently demonstrate outstanding participation in Vizient programs designed to create greater value through aggregation, supply assurance, resiliency, advanced analytics, and strategic insight.
Community Health Network
Indirect spend / purchased services value alignment visionary driving meaningful use of analytics tools to strengthen sourcing decisions and deliver measurable value.
Duke University Health System
Physician preference item value alignment visionary advancing contract participation, clinical engagement, market performance, and use of analytics and inventory tools.
Emory Healthcare
Capital equipment value alignment visionary optimizing participation in aligned capital strategies and commitment opportunities.
MedStar Health
Medical/surgical value alignment visionary driving program participation, contract activation, and engagement levels with committed strategies.
Temple University Health System
Pharmacy value alignment visionary advancing deep engagement in pharmacy commitment and aggregation programs, contract consistency, and applicable program compliance.
Enterprise stewardship winners
Recognizing enterprise stewardship excellence
The Enterprise Stewardship Visionary Award recognizes organizations that bring people, expertise, and information together to address complex, enterprise-level challenges identifying where change can create lasting value.
Indiana University Health
Capital equipment enterprise stewardship visionary driving deep program engagement, aligned purchasing strategies, consistent value capture, and enduring partnership impact.
Sutter Health
Physician preference item enterprise stewardship visionary optimizing enterprise engagement, contract participation, clinical alignment, market performance, and analytics utilization.
Tampa General Hospital
Medical/surgical enterprise stewardship strengthening deep enterprise engagement, realized value, and participation in initiatives that improve performance across the organization.
The Queen's Health Systems
Pharmacy enterprise stewardship visionary advancing high enterprise commitment levels across pharmacy programs, including contract consistency, resilience, and strategic alignment.
UofL Health
Indirect spend / purchased services enterprise stewardship visionary driving strategic partnership, sustained collaboration, total savings, and high-impact initiatives that deliver value.
How honorees are selected
Honorees are identified through two rigorous paths. Metrics-based recognition uses comprehensive Vizient performance analysis, evaluating contract utilization, value optimization, program participation, analytics engagement, cost savings, year-over-year improvement and strategic sourcing alignment. Nomination-based recognition follows a formal review process, with anonymized submissions evaluated against criteria including innovation, enterprise impact, outcomes, collaboration and leadership.
Honorees are identified through comprehensive Vizient performance analysis. Organizations are evaluated using data related to contract utilization and compliance, value optimization, program participation, analytics engagement, cost savings opportunities, year-over-year improvement and strategic sourcing alignment.
Organizations and leaders are recognized through a formal nomination and rigorous review process. Submissions are anonymized and evaluated by a committee against defined criteria, which may include innovation and originality, enterprise impact, measurable outcomes, collaboration, leadership, sustainability of results and scalability across the organization.
The Spend Management Visionary awards celebrate extraordinary leadership, collaboration and value-driving performance. The program recognizes transformational strategic action, measurable outcomes, collaboration and enterprise impact, advancing spend management excellence through strategic partnership, innovation and measurable impact.
Vizient launched the Spend Management Visionary awards in 2025 to recognize the leaders and teams transforming healthcare through strategic, disciplined spend management. The inaugural year exceeded expectations, with organizations across the country sharing powerful examples of innovation, collaboration and measurable impact.
These leaders are redefining the role of supply chain and pharmacy in healthcare. Through their vision and results, they are elevating both as strategic levers for performance, resilience, and value creation within their organizations and across the industry.