Capstone Health Alliance ranks among the largest regional group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the nation and collaborates closely with Premier, Inc. Capstone establishes key partnerships with top-tier Suppliers, offering our Members significant savings and value.
Capstone is a proud partner of Premier Inc., a longtime leader in healthcare improvement and one of the largest GPOs in the country. Through our partnership with Premier Inc., our combined Memberships can leverage over $83 billion in purchasing power and tap into an exceptional range of contracts, providing discounts on almost 3 million products.
It all started in 1995, local healthcare leaders aligned area hospitals to work together to improve healthcare in Western North Carolina. Five years later, the supply chain leaders, led by Tim Bugg and Mark Landau, began aggregating purchasing volumes to negotiate better prices for all healthcare contracts and established the WNC Health Network. The GPO then separated from The WNC Health Network and Capstone Health Alliance was founded in 2013.