With more than 26 years of management experience, Ms. McCready oversees $2.6 billion in annual spending as vice president and chief procurement officer at Northwell Health. She was central to creating and managing Northwell’s Integrated Distribution Center, which streamlined product delivery logistics to the health system’s hospitals, and she has helped standardize medical-surgical products and improve emergency preparedness capabilities. Ms. McCready also serves as president and CEO of the North Shore-LIJ Alliance, Northwell’s group purchasing organization, bringing operational and financial efficiencies to the health system and its affiliate network. Under her leadership, Northwell’s Center for Advanced Medicine became the first surgical site to pioneer a recycling program aiming to eliminate 30% to 50% of clean, recyclable operating room materials from the waste stream, a move that is expected to recycle more than 20,000 pounds of common operating room materials annually. She is also implementing an AI-powered computer vision platform to address gaps in tracking high-cost surgical supplies left by traditional barcode, radio frequency identification, EHR and paper-based systems.
