Supply Chain

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Community Hospital Corporation Supply Trust now serves more than 100 hospitals, providing group purchasing organization access and supply chain management support to community hospitals, the company said May 10. 

The healthcare supply chain has moved very quickly in the last year to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, continuously adapting to deal with shortages. Mike Schiller, senior director of supply chain for the American Hospital Association's Association for Health Care…

Ellume, an Australian company that makes the first fully at-home COVID-19 diagnostic test to be approved by the FDA, is opening its first U.S. production plant in Maryland this year, The Baltimore Sun reported May 10. 

To achieve a mature supply chain that not only reacts to crises such as COVID-19 but proactively prepares for them, health systems should prioritize data transparency and traceability. 

Citing restrictions related to the pandemic, the FDA will perform less than half of the non-food domestic surveillance inspections it had planned for fiscal year 2021, the agency said May 5.

The American Red Cross is worried it may face a significant blood shortage heading into summer, Tucson, Ariz.-based ABC affiliate KGUN-TV reported May 6. 

Eight states and multiple local health departments and officials say vaccine kits from the federal government contain an insufficient number of low-dead-space syringes, which help extract every last COVID-19 vaccine dose from vials, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The world needs to reassess its current COVID-19 vaccination strategy to accelerate manufacturing and more equitably distribute vaccine supplies globally, two experts wrote in an article published May 6 in Harvard Business Review.

A division of the CDC said May 4 it has revoked the emergency use authorization for Plastikon Industries' N95 mask.