Northwest Ohio Shared Services (NOSS) was founded in 1978 and separately incorporated in 1983. NOSS is the marketing arm of the national group purchasing organization (GPO), MedAssets for Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. NOSS is committed to providing its members with practical solutions and aggregate purchasing power through a supply chain portfolio offered by MedAssets. NOSS membership includes 254 organizations representing acute care hospitals, nursing homes, surgery centers, clinics, schools, EMS units, provider pharmacies, adult feeding programs and physicians’ group practices.

Along with being the marketing arm of MedAssets, NOSS is a member-focused organization that is taking great strides to present strong, educationally based programs and services to meet the specialized needs of its members. Through strategic planning, member input and committed research, we have been successful in providing the following value-oriented programs to our member hospitals:

• Management Development Leadership Program
• CFO Forum
• Revenue Cycle Management Forum
• Compliance Forum
• Information Technology Forum
• Lab Directors Meetings
• Pharmacy Directors Meetings
• Materials Managers Meetings
• Food & Nutrition Services Vendor Fairs

Member hospitals participating in the GPO and/or Educational Programming:

• Bellevue Hospital
• Blanchard Valley Health System
• Fisher-Titus Medical Center
• Fulton County Health Center
• Henry County Hospital
• Magruder Hospital
• Memorial Hospital – Fremont
• Mercy St. Anne Hospital
• Mercy St. Charles Hospital
• Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
• Mercy St. Vincent Children’s Hospital
• Mercy Tiffin Hospital
• Mercy Willard Hospital
• Paulding County Hospital
• St. Luke’s Hospital
• University of Toledo Medical Center
• Wood County Hospital

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