Supply Chain

In recent months, Medline has penned deals with school districts, Boston's Mass General Brigham and six other systems. Here's the team leading the medical supply company: 

Philips is recalling 1,088 reworked CPAP and BiPAP machines used for sleep apnea due to the potential for inaccurate or insufficient treatment. 

Days after medical device company Abbott issued a voluntary safety warning for its glucose monitoring devices, the FDA published a recall note April 6 stating that more than 4 million of the company's FreeStyle Libre readers may be prone to an…

The FDA found sterilizations issues at a Global Pharma facility, which manufactured eye drops contaminated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, CNN reported April 3.

Emerge Manufacturing, a Cincinnati-based hospital manufacturing company, will break ground on its 50,000-square-foot, personal protective equipment manufacturing plant April 4. 

The Federal Trade Commission on April 3 ordered Illumina to divest cancer test maker Grail, saying the $7.1 billion deal would substantially stifle competition for cancer diagnostics in the U.S. 

The FDA is evaluating safety concerns with unapproved dental devices after receiving "reports of serious complications," the agency said March 30. 

On March 30, Medline opened its 650,000-square-foot distribution center in Hammond, La., after investing $72 million into the facility, according to a news release shared with Becker's. 

For Carlos Maceda, chief supply chain officer for Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, mentoring the next generation of supply chain leaders is a top priority.

Medical supply company Medline made a distribution agreement with a national purchasing organization to provide its products to up to 26,000 state agencies, counties, cities and school districts, Medline said March 28.