Supply Chain

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

Johns Hopkins Health System is now paying $9 for surgical gowns that used to cost 40 cents before the pandemic, Lisa Ishii, MD, senior vice president of operations at the Baltimore-based health system wrote in an article for Vox. 

Quest Diagnostics said July 29 that the FDA has granted emergency use authorization for a new lab technique that speeds up the COVID-19 testing process and will allow it to expand its daily testing capacity and improve turnaround times. 

Leaders from freight and shipping companies told Bloomberg the industry isn't ready to handle shipping a COVID-19 vaccine to billions of people around the world. 

The FDA has placed certain brands of hand sanitizer on an import alert as more products have been found to contain methanol, a chemical that can be toxic when absorbed into the skin or ingested. 

Demand for see-through masks has skyrocketed in recent months, particularly among deaf and hard-of-hearing populations, NPR reported. 

The COVID-19 pandemic amplified numerous challenges within the U.S. supply chain, from the scarcity of procurement sources to vetting an influx of new entrants to the market. Supply chain leaders have had to be extremely flexible, experiment with new procurement…

Communicating the reasons your organization is pursuing standardization to the entire staff is crucial for success.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent $134 million to supply nursing homes across the country with 14-day supplies of personal protective equipment, but nursing homes say the shipments have included faulty and unusable equipment, The New York Times reported. 

Labs across the country are facing shortages of pipette tips, which are needed to quickly and precisely move liquid between vials during the COVID-19 testing process, The New York Times reported.