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Why Advantus Health Partners?

Yes, your health system needs a GPO — but you’ll need so much more to move beyond transactions to a strategic supply chain.

A traditional GPO often fails to deliver true value to your bottom line. Advantus enables you to break the status quo with innovative supply chain approaches.

You need a health care solution that goes beyond just “terms and conditions.”

Our mission & promise

Our mission is to drive value within your organization through collaboration, optimization and innovation.

We promise to work with and for you to develop solutions that meet your organization’s needs. We promise to engage key stakeholders in continuous, inclusive improvement, align the best minds in the industry and use cutting-edge insights. At the end of the day, our goal is to transform historical processes while maintaining integrity, inclusion and trust in what we do and the results we produce.

We will accomplish our promise by

Treating all team members, clients and community members with respect
Celebrating success while learning from mistakes and missed opportunities
Knowing that each day counts. Failure today does not mean failure tomorrow, and success today doesn’t necessarily mean success tomorrow
Challenging each other and our processes with the goal of continuous improvement
Lifting one another up to drive collaboration and collective success
Engaging, coaching and supporting team members. We want people to be excited to work with Advantus

The Advantus difference for health care supply chain

We partner with health systems to uncover value beyond just cost savings. Together, we’ll enhance your clinical outcomes, foster strategic supplier relationships and optimize your supply chain. So how exactly are we different from traditional GPOs?

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Primary GPOs give you access to group purchasing power but often limit your options with exclusivity agreements.
Tiered pricing based on your size and spend means you may not qualify for the deepest savings.
Varied supplier models create unneeded variability that can raise costs and compromise patient safety.
One-size-fits-all approaches are rigid and can’t accommodate your evolving needs.
“Sayers” offer consulting services from businesspeople that haven’t been in your shoes.

Advantus

A secondary GPO partner like Advantus offers greater savings in strategic priority areas while enabling flexibility.
Competitive pricing is a win-win for all members, regardless of size or spend.
A strategic supplier model vets the best suppliers for value and clinical quality, and holds suppliers mutually accountable.
Modular solutions give you the flexibility to choose what you need most, from a secondary GPO to consulting or operations support.
“Doers” provide consulting and management solutions designed by health care supply chain operators.

Who we are

Our roots are in health care supply chain operations. And our years of experience have taught us to challenge conventional approaches.

Yes, we offer traditional solutions, such as cost reduction, top quartile pricing, member benefits and an expansive product portfolio. But we also embrace the next generation of supply chain, one that is clinically aligned, digitally driven and focused on innovation.

Advantus Health Partners is a subsidiary of Bon Secours Mercy Health, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S.

What it’s like to work with Advantus

Our mission is to drive value within your organization through collaboration, optimization and innovation to meet your organization’s needs.

At the end of the day, our goal is to transform historical processes while maintaining integrity, inclusion and trust in what we do and the results we produce.

You can expect our partnership to be:

Clinically aligned
Collaborative
Customized
Data-driven
Engaged
Service-oriented

Did You Know?

Advantus offers one of the industry’s only specialized contracts of physician preference items (PPI) and healthcare technology management (HTM) for GPO members.

Move beyond the traditional GPO model

Experience a shift from transactional to strategic supply chain management. Advantus challenges the conventional GPO model, offering traditional benefits alongside groundbreaking approaches that bridge the gap between vendors and members. Our unique supply chain strategies can align with your goals, ensuring cost savings and improved health care outcomes.

Download our one-sheet to learn how we can help you optimize your supply chain with our end-to-end supply chain solutions.

Our history

Our work improving supply chain began in 2016 under Mercy Health and continued after the merger of what is now Bon Secours Mercy Health. We focused on consolidation efforts and standardizing timelines.

We leveraged scale for contracting, aligned strategic partnerships, built upon best practices and integrated an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to maximize value and achieve the best price.

After the Bon Secours Mercy Health merger, we realized that the transactional GPO was no longer the best solution. In 2021, we created Advantus Health Partners as an independent LLC. Our goals remain the same: to support the supply chain needs of health care organizations with innovative solutions.