Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
In a recent press release, North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), one of the leading single-specialty anesthesia and perioperative management companies in the U.S., and Air Methods, the leading air medical service company, announced they have partnered to provide 34 portable,…
Staff
Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
A group of private and nonprofit organizations including Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft and the American Hospital Association are launching an app called Protecting People Everywhere that will provide personal protective equipment to hospitals in need.
Abbott Laboratories is launching a COVID-19 antibody test and will ship nearly 1 million tests this week, the company said April 15.
Quest Diagnostics, the commercial lab that has performed about 800,000 COVID-19 tests, is furloughing more than 4,000 employees, which is about 9 percent of its workforce, CBS News reports.
The American Medical Association is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish a national distribution system for personal protective equipment to ease the burden on hospitals and states.
The U.S. government will nearly double the amount it pays hospitals and medical centers to process Abbott's COVID-19 diagnostic test, CMS said April 15.
Public health experts agree that widespread diagnostic testing is the first step toward lifting social distancing orders and adjusting to a new normal post COVID-19.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene sent out a memo April 11 warning the city may run out of test swabs used to diagnose COVID-19, The Hill reported.
The FDA has granted three emergency use authorizations allowing companies to sterilize N95 masks to be reused by hospital workers.