Supply Chain
Long wait times, crowded waiting rooms, and frustrated staff are often symptoms of inefficient workflows driven by physical space constraints.…
The last five years have fundamentally changed how health systems think about supply chain resilience. An effort that was once centered on responding to shortages as they emerged has evolved into a more sophisticated strategy built on predictive analytics, formal…
Minneapolis-based Allina Health has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline. The agreement gives the 12-hospital, 90-plus-clinic system, serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin, access to Medline’s medical-surgical product portfolio for its hospital and physician office sites, along with Medline’s distribution…
Medline has leased more than 1.6 million square feet of distribution center space in Northern California after a June 11 fire destroyed its 1 million-square-foot facility in Tracy, Calif. The medical supply company secured a 925,000-square-foot warehouse in Tracy for…
A federal effort to expand domestic medical glove manufacturing has yet to produce a single medical glove despite $850 million in funding awarded to six companies, according to a July 7 Bloomberg report. The initiative, launched during the COVID-19 pandemic…
The American Hospital Association has asked the Office of the United States Trade Representative to exempt vital medications, medical devices and PPE from proposed tariffs stemming from a Section 301 investigation into countries’ failure to enforce forced labor import bans,…
Health system supply chain leaders say the barriers standing in the way of better disruption planning all lead back to the same place: upstream, where they have the least control and the least information. Les Feka, director of supply chain…
The Justice Department has sued medical device maker NeuroSolutions 100 and its owner and CEO, Michael Bingham, alleging they submitted false Medicare claims by billing a noncovered electro-acupuncture device as a surgically implanted neurostimulator. The civil complaint, filed June 22…
Hospital CEOs track countless financial and operational metrics, but supply chain leaders say supply cost as a percentage of net patient revenue deserves the most attention. Because supplies are typically the second-largest expense after labor, the metric directly links supply…
United Parcel Service is investing $48 million to upgrade 27 temperature-controlled facilities across its domestic and international operations as demand for healthcare logistics continues to grow, according to a June 22 CNBC report. The facilities, located across the Americas, Europe…
The FDA has flagged five medical device recalls, corrections and early alerts affecting infant resuscitation systems, catheter introducers, reprocessed electrophysiology and ultrasound catheters, positive pressure breathing devices and insulin pumps. Here are the five recalls to know: