Leaders from kidney organizations wrote a letter to White House officials April 8 urging them to prioritize the needs of kidney disease patients by addressing staff shortages and supply chain disruptions at dialysis centers across the country. 

Here are six recent updates from healthcare suppliers Becker's has reported since March 7:

Johnson & Johnson must pay $302 million to California for "many years of deceptive marketing" about pelvic mesh implants with the potential to cause serious vaginal pain and damage, The San Francisco Chronicle reported April 11.

Healthcare providers are under tremendous pressure to find cost savings and efficiencies while maintaining optimal patient care. Logistics management has untapped potential to deliver value across the continuum of care.

If your facility is looking to start or improve their sustainability programs, the first step is to establish a strong leadership team. Having a leadership team dedicated to key sustainability initiatives and programs is critical to achieve long-term success.

Global Healthcare Exchange named 78 healthcare provider and supplier organizations to the 2021 GHX Millennium Club, which honors organizations that achieved the highest levels of automation.

Walmart is raising the starting pay for truck drivers to $95,000 to $110,000 as part of its new private fleet development program that aims to expand the retailer's driver workforce.

The FDA is alerting healthcare providers to a recall and change in reprocessing instructions for certain urological endoscopes manufactured by Karl Storz.

Here are 10 health systems that have posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week: 

Experts say while global supply chain disruptions have been "relatively minor" thus far from China's lockdowns to curb COVID-19 outbreaks, major disruptions are a growing possibility, The Guardian reported April 6.

Inventory costs and warehousing prices reached record high levels in March, according to the Logistics Managers' Index Report published April 5. 

The U.S. is further restricting access to GlaxoSmithKline's COVID-19 antibody drug sotrovimab in response to research suggesting it is ineffective against the omicron subvariant BA.2, now the country's dominant strain.

Each year, hospitals in the U.S. generate 5.9 million tons of medical waste.1 Practice Greenhealth estimates that 29 pounds of waste is generated per staffed bed per day.2

Cardinal Health plans to build a 574,670-square-foot medical distribution center in Columbus, Ohio.

A combination of international and domestic events in recent weeks have the potential to disupt the U.S. supply chain. 

National and global factors like the Russia-Ukraine war are complicating supply chain issues in the U.S., with health systems expecting to see price hikes in certain medical supplies for which raw materials are sourced in Russia. 

Here are 10 health systems that have posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week: 

Millions of chronically ill patients are struggling to get medical supplies amid global shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported March 29. 

China's lockdown of Shanghai to curb a COVID-19 outbreak has exporters bracing for delays from the supply chain disruptions, The Wall Street Journal reported March 28.

The potential strike of 22,000 dockworkers along the nation's West Coast could aggravate current supply shortages and lead to higher prices for consumer goods, The New York Times reported March 28.