100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2018
Rank 78
Susan DeVore
President and CEO, Premier
DeVore has been CEO of Premier since 2009. Under her leadership, the publicly traded supply-chain organization and healthcare-improvement company has continued to grow. Net revenue spiked 44% between fiscal 2015 and 2017. Premier also garnered a 95% overall approval rating from its members in 2017. DeVore is the immediate past chair of the Healthcare Leadership Council and co-chaired an HLC Opioid Summit. Premier has been named 11 times as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute and won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.