Supply Chain

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