Supply Chain

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

The strategic national stockpile of personal protective equipment has been depleted, and states won't be receiving any more shipments, The Hill reported. 

Ventilators have made national headlines as the U.S. grapples with a shortage of the medical device used to give breathing support to the most severely ill COVID-19 patients. 

Medline has resumed sterilizing medical supplies at its plant in Waukegan, Ill., about two months after it originally predicted, a company spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review. 

Medtronic is recalling 822 of its pipeline flex embolization devices, which are used to treat brain aneurysms, after finding the delivery system can break during surgery and leave fractured pieces inside patients' brain bloodstreams. 

General Motors will build 30,000 ventilators for the national stockpile under a $489.4 million contract with the federal government, CNBC reported. 

President Donald Trump said the government will purchase 166.5 million masks from 3M over the next three months, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

Ventilators, the medical devices used to help patients with severe COVID-19 infections breathe, are in severe shortages around the country as hospitals struggle to meet increased demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the healthcare supply chain across the U.S. and resulted in shortages of critical drugs and medical supplies. 

Blue Shield of California is providing up to $200 million in direct financial support to hospitals and physicians who are facing new pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic.