Supply Chain

Lisa Scannell, vice president of supply chain management at Mass General Brigham, joined the Somerville, Mass.-based health system 28 years ago. In that time, she's worked her way up from materials management manager to VP.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health's supply company, SafeSource Direct, manufactured 1.5 million shoe covers for an HHS agency one month ahead of schedule. 

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

The director of the FDA's medical supply division praised the recently passed spending bill for its "total product life-cycle approach" and cybersecurity measure allowances, Politico reported Jan. 3. 

St. Vincent Hospital, a Leadville, Colo.-based hospital that recently needed a county bailout to pay its employees, paid for $169,000 worth of medical equipment it cannot use at its high altitude, 9news reported Jan. 3.

Hospitals' supply of two types of blood thinners wavered before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published Dec. 26 in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 

As health systems struggled with medical supply disruptions affected by inflation, geopolitical conflicts, demand spikes and COVID-19, here are eight noteworthy shortages from 2022:

Here are three moves Cardinal Health made in late 2022:

Here are eight drug and medical device recalls the FDA reported in December:

The reworked CPAP and BiPAP machines from Philips Respironics were found to be "unlikely to result in an appreciable harm to health in patients," Philips said Dec. 21.