Below are five of the top supply chain stories published by Becker's Hospital Review in March, beginning with the most popular:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and HHS have created a supply chain stabilization task force to address the limited supply of critical protective equipment across the country.

New York City-based Northwell Health said it has developed a protocol to transform a BiPAP machine into a functional ventilator and that it plans to share the design online so other hospitals facing ventilator shortages can prepare. 

Shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic are going beyond personal protective equipment and ventilators, affecting things such as personal care thermometers and medical professionals trained to care for ventilated patients. 

The American Hospital Association has launched a national initiative to secure millions of masks for the healthcare workers at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

A medical devicemaker was given $13.8 million in tax dollars from HHS last September to design and make cheap, portable ventilators to be stockpiled for emergencies. But none of the ventilators are in the U.S. stockpile, and the company has instead been selling more expensive versions overseas, an investigation from ProPublica found.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims that hospitals are hoarding personal protective equipment during a March 30 news briefing. 

California-based Stanford Health Care along with group purchasing organization Premier and Resilinc, a supply chain risk management software company, have created a cloud platform that will allow hospitals to identify, locate and exchange critical medical supplies. 

A senior Veterans Affairs official warned of looming personal protective equipment shortages in late February as American clinicians first started to treat COVID-19 patients, according to internal emails reviewed by Kaiser Health News.

President Donald Trump said healthcare workers are hoarding ventilators and other hospital supplies during a March 29 meeting with supply chain distributors. 

President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act March 27, directing General Motors to make ventilators. 

Hospitals in the Detroit area are declining donations of handmade masks from the public, but at least one says it may need them in the future, WXYZ, a local ABC affiliate reported.

Medical devicemakers are asking the Trump administration for guidance on which states to prioritize sending ventilators to, as they are in severe shortage across the country, NPR reported.

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

Hospitals are airlifting supplies from other countries in attempts to make up for severe shortages in the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser Health News reported. 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun shipping medical supplies to states from the national stockpile, but some state officials say some of the supplies already are expired, ABC News reported.

The State Department is asking other countries if it can purchase excess medical supplies to help the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Hill reports. 

Group purchasing organizations will save the healthcare industry as much as $456.6 billion in the next 10 years, according to the Healthcare Supply Chain Association's third annual value report, released March 24. 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to make price-gouging and hoarding of critical medical supplies a crime during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Hill reported. 

The Trump administration was set to use the Defense Production Act March 24 to acquire 60,000 COVID-19 diagnostic test kits, but has since deemed it unnecessary, according to The Wall Street Journal.