Ms. Epright has been with Yale New Haven Health for more than 12 years, including as a founding member of its internal consulting group and corporate supply chain, and now oversees a department of approximately 400 full-time employees handling contracting, procurement, logistics, clinical value, project management and analytics. She built a non-labor collaborative team, including a systemwide resource pool, that has driven sustainable expense reductions of more than $35 million per year. Ms. Epright implemented a new enterprise resource planning platform across the health system and rolled out a clinically integrated supply chain model that includes a medical director role, value analysis nurses and clinical stakeholders from primary surgical, perioperative and specialty areas. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she converted the health system’s primary distributor to ensure supply resiliency and opened a 160,000-square-foot regional operation center warehouse servicing medical-surgical distribution, emergency stockpile management and clinical engineering equipment for the entire system. Her team’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts extend into sourcing, with vendor proposals evaluated in part on minority- and women-owned business qualifications. Ms. Epright is a certified public accountant, was recognized by Vizient as a “Woman to Watch,” and co-authored published research on hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination of N95 respirators for reuse.
