Supply Chain
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Duluth, Minn.-based St. Luke's signed a five-year contract with Medline Jan. 31.
Novo Nordisk has started increasing supplies of lower doses of Wegovy, a weight loss drug, which the drug maker says will enable more new patients to start taking the medication.
Philips will stop selling sleep apnea devices in the U.S. under a consent decree agreement with the FDA.
Lake Regional Health System appointed Robert Ambrose, the current director of dining services, as its supply chain director.
Hospital supply chain leaders are concerned that the nation's sale of its helium stockpile could worsen an existing supply shortage, NBC News reported Jan. 25.
Careismatic, a medical scrubs maker and distributor in California, filed for bankruptcy Jan. 23 as it logs $833 million in debt, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The American Hospital Association named three areas where supply chain leaders at hospitals and health systems should set anchor: people, processes and technology.
Hospital surgery and anesthesia departments are facing the worst supply strains among clinical service lines, according to a recent American Hospital Association report.
After securing a win, Tom Lubotsky, supply chain vice president of Minneapolis-based Allina Health, is looking at the auto and retail industries to inspire new metrics.
Primordial Ventures, a startup medical device supplier, is setting up shop in Birmingham, Ala., according to the state's Department of Commerce.