BERGEN BRUNSWIG APPOINTS BILL ELLIOTT PRESIDENT OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL SUPPLY SUBSIDIARY; Durr Medical Renamed Bergen Brunswig Medical Corporation.ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--Bergen Brunswig Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. ) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Bill Elliott This article is about Bill Elliott, a NASCAR driver. For the movie, see Billy Elliot. For other uses of Bill Elliott or Billy Elliot, see Billy Elliot (disambiguation). William Clyde "Bill" Elliott as an officer of the Corporation, and has announced that he will assume responsibility for the Company's medical-surgical supply operations as President. The Company's Durr Medical subsidiary will change its name to Bergen Brunswig Medical Corporation, coinciding with Bergen's integrated strategy. Mr. Elliott, 47, comes to Bergen from VHA VHA Veterans Health Administration VHA Variable Housing Allowance VHA Villages Homeowners Association VHA Voluntary Hospitals Association VHA Virtual Home Agent VHA Very High Altitude VHA Vapor Hazard Area VHA Vermont Holstein-Friesian Association Inc. -- one of the nation's leading healthcare networks and Bergen's largest health systems customer -- where he was Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management. In this capacity, Mr. Elliott led all aspects of program development, business partner relationships, contract negotiations, marketing, and sales. His significant accomplishments include the creation and implementation of a multi-year strategic plan for the transition of Supply Chain Management from its traditional role of group purchasing organization A group purchasing organization is an entity that leverages the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees that are actually paid by the vendors. to a supply cost-reduction company; and the roll-out of VHA's committed purchasing program, OPPORTUNITY, which enrolled one-half of VHA's overall volume. Mr. Elliott joined VHA in 1984 and since that time, has held a series of management positions in several areas including business development, information services See Information Systems. , managed care, and membership services. Mr. Elliott's professional career has been closely linked to VHA, starting in 1976 when he joined Baptist Health System, VHA's shareholder in Birmingham, AL. As President of Bergen Brunswig Medical Corporation, Mr. Elliott will be one of four executives in the Office of the President, directly reporting to the Corporation's President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Donald R. Roden. Mr. Elliott will be charged with integrating the med-surg efforts more closely with the pharmaceutical and specialty distribution sales and will be leading the IntePlex(tm) operations as well. "I am so pleased Bill has decided to join our team," explained Donald R. Roden, President and Chief Operating Officer. "We've had the pleasure of working with him for a number of years during our relationship with VHA and have witnessed his innovative thinking. Bergen's strategy is to manage the supply chain, creating value for the Company and its customers. To do this, we will be building on our core competencies and looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new approaches. Bill's 'hands on' management style combined with his expertise in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and restructuring traditional paradigms will be a significant asset in moving us forward." Mr. Elliott holds an M.A. in Human Development Counseling and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Illinois-Springfield. He is married and has two adult sons. Mr. Elliott will be commencing his employment with Bergen on October 1, 1996. Bergen Brunswig Corporation, with national distribution of both pharmaceuticals and medical-surgical supplies, serves its customer base -- chain and independent pharmacies, hospitals, HMOs, nursing homes, clinics, and physician groups -- with innovative logistics management programs that help them grow efficiently and improve the cost effectiveness of their operations and further support their focus on patient/consumer care. Bergen Brunswig Corporation's operating teams include Bergen Brunswig Drug Company, Durr Medical (aka Bergen Brunswig Medical Corporation), IntePlex, Alternate Site Distributors, and Good Neighbor Pharmacy Good Neighbor Pharmacy is a retailers' cooperative network of over 2,700 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with AmerisourceBergen (Bergen Brunswig Drug Company), which sponsors the network and owns the name "Good Neighbor Pharmacy". 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