Supply Chain

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

The FDA sent a warning letter to Battelle Memorial Institute, a company that makes a system to decontaminate face masks, saying it doesn't have adequate procedures for identifying adverse events. 

Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida, an 11-hospital system, has never run out of personal protective equipment during the state's COVID-19 pandemic, in part, it said, because of its consolidated distribution services center. The health system offered details about its supply…

An HCA Healthcare physician has died of COVID-19 after reusing her N95 mask for weeks, if not months, The Guardian reported. 

Roche said that problems with a move to a new warehouse in the U.K. have led to a "very significant" drop in its COVID-19 test supply capacity, BBC reported. 

Washington, D.C., is seeking a spike in COVID-19 testing demand after an outbreak of the virus at the White House, NPR reported. 

The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it unprecedented demand for medical supplies, from protective personal equipment to ventilators. Early on, health systems struggled to keep their hospitals stocked amid high global demand and had to develop creative strategies to handle shortages. 

Every year in October, National Healthcare Supply Chain Week aims to increase awareness of the vital work that supply chain professionals perform every day.

Medtronic said Sept. 30 it will acquire Avenu Medical, a device maker based in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. 

A COVID-19 at-home test that relies on saliva could be as effective as a vaccine in curbing the spread of the virus, according to some experts, but companies developing the tests told The New York Times that the technology needed…