Mr. Dereadt implemented a contract compliance program at Valleywise Health that maximized group purchasing organization shareback revenue, generating more than $2.5 million within a 12-month period. The total was enough to fully cover the health system’s annual supply chain labor expenses up through the manager level. In 2025, that work also produced $2.2 million in savings through group purchasing organization contracts and more than $2.3 million through Vizient’s Captis network contracts, on top of the shareback revenue. Working with a cross-functional team of architects and consultants, Mr. Dereadt directed a multiyear supply chain initiative to design new facilities, including a warehouse, hospital supply points and 11 federally qualified health center clinic supply rooms. He created the plan to outfit a new nine-floor hospital tower with two-bin kanban supply rooms without disrupting the existing warehouse’s operational inventory or space, hiring Valleywise Health’s primary distribution partner to build 363 metro-carts using more than 46,000 Akro-bins. Because every supply room was fully stocked before the patient transfer, the tower’s go-live and 24-hour transfer activity generated zero calls to the command center. Mr. Dereadt is part of the 2026–2027 class of Siegel Fellows, a program associated with America’s Essential Hospitals.
