Supply Chain

The U.S. healthcare supply chain remains strained due to high demand for personal protective equipment both domestically and abroad, the American Hospital Association said Sept. 9. But supply chain leaders around the country have learned important lessons from the COVID-19…

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System in Baton Rouge, La., said Sept. 10 that LabCorp has acquired its clinical ambulatory lab business. 

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

The U.S. may need up to 176 million COVID-19 tests each month to safely reopen schools, according to a report written by health policy experts at the Rockefeller Foundation published Sept. 9.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health said Sept. 8 it is opening a lab to more than triple its current COVID-19 testing capacity. 

A testing lab in Boston paused COVID-19 testing after an investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found nearly 400 false positive results, NBC News reported.

Public health experts say it's better to get fast and frequent results from COVID-19 tests that may be less accurate than to get more precise results that take several days, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

As elective procedures are now fully underway after a backlog of delayed surgeries due to COVID-19, improving OR turnover speed is more important than ever before.

Roche said Sept. 4 it has received emergency authorization from the FDA for its nasal swab test that detects the flu and COVID-19 and differentiates between the two viruses. 

Two leading COVID-19 vaccines in late-stage testing must be stored at ultracold temperatures, but hospitals, pharmacies and physicians' offices expected to be vaccination sites have few freezers to accommodate such temperatures, The Wall Street Journal reported.