Supply Chain

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

A Georgia man was charged May 28 with attempting to sell 50 million N95 masks he didn't actually possess to a foreign government for $317 million. 

A shortage of the machines that process COVID-19 tests and give results is slowing efforts to ramp up diagnostic testing, NPR reported. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing an array of  supply chain challenges for hospitals and health systems, such as a backlog of diagnostic testing and shortages of supplies and personal protective equipment.

Novant Health launched the first hospital emergency drone program to help its COVID-19 pandemic response. 

The FDA is investigating the lab that AdventHealth cut ties with last week after saying it received thousands of unreliable COVID-19 diagnostic tests, USA Today reported. 

Premier, a group purchasing organization, and 15 health systems partnered to acquire a minority stake in Prestige Ameritech, the largest producer of personal protective equipment in the U.S., to help make sure more healthcare products are protected from shortages. 

The FDA removed 29 COVID-19 antibody tests from its list of authorized tests because they didn't meet the agency's updated guidelines. 

As demonstrated by the national responses to COVID-19, alternate sites of care have been essential in assisting with the increased pressure placed on the US healthcare system.1

As limited doses of the drug remdesivir make its way around the country, states, counties and hospitals are making plans on how to distribute it — and these plans may be drastically different, according to The Wall Street Journal.