Supply Chain

Medline, a healthcare manufacturer and distribution company, has steadily scooped up supply contracts with hospital and health systems over the last year.

Here are 10 health systems and hospitals that posted job listings seeking supply chain expertise in the last week. 

Shortages of ambulances and emergency medical service employees are straining healthcare in some pockets of the U.S.

Tri-City Medical Center, which is based in Oceanside, Calif., and serves Carlsbad and Vista, chose Medline as its primary supplier in a deal worth $30 million. 

Tampa-based University of South Florida was awarded a Patent for Humanity award by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its 3D-printed nasopharyngeal swab.

The federal government spent $8.2 billion on medical supplies in 2021's fiscal year, amounting to a 38 percent drop in medical supply spending from the prior year, according to a Jan. 12 report from the Health Industry Distributors Association. 

As Gartner began listing the top 10 of its 25 healthcare supply chain ranking, the Geisinger supply team got nervous during its Microsoft Teams meeting, Kate Polczynski, Geisinger's vice president of enterprise supply chain, told Becker's. 

Here are 10 health systems and hospitals that posted job listings seeking supply chain expertise in the last week. 

More than 2 in every 5 medical devices the FDA authorized with the 510(k) pathway had predicates that were Class I recalls — the most serious type of recall — according to a study published Jan. 10 in the Journal…

The nation's healthcare industry and medical supply chain are closely watching potential repercussions from a suspected COVID-19 surge in China, NBC News reported Jan. 8.