SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Consorta announced that its board of directors has named Darrel Weatherford to serve as the company's president and chief executive officer, effective December 3, 2008. He had served as interim president and chief executive officer since October 2008.
Weatherford, 48, was the company's chief operating officer since 1999, overseeing the majority of the operational aspects of Consorta, including contract development, account management and general operations.
"We are very pleased Darrel has agreed to serve as Consorta's president and CEO," said Lou Fierens, Consorta chairman and senior vice president of Supply Chain and Capital Projects Management at Trinity Health. "Darrel has been with Consorta since its inception, and is ideally suited to lead us in our mission to provide quality, committed group purchasing agreements to our membership."
Weatherford has more than 20 years of experience in the group purchasing industry, having previously served as Vice President of Contracting at Premier, Inc. in Oak Brook, Ill. He has also held group purchasing positions with the University Hospital Consortium, Oak Brook, Ill., and Humana, Inc., Louisville, Ky.
A 1983 graduate of the
About Consorta, Inc.
Consorta, based in suburban Chicago, is a leading healthcare resource
management and group purchasing organization (GPO) whose shareholders are
faith-based or non-profit health systems. Consorta's 11 shareholder healthcare
systems represent 50 percent of all Catholic hospitals in the United States,
and are among the leading integrators of non-profit healthcare in America.
Consorta's membership now encompasses more than 3,280 care sites, i
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