February 22, 2024 – After the challenges healthcare has confronted lately, it’s extra vital than ever to organize for the long run. At IDN Insights West, sponsored by Allergan Aesthetics, John Bain, Director of Well being Methods – Strategic Accounts at Umano Medical hosted a panel that included Justin Freed, VP Adventist Well being, Shireen Ahmad, Interim VP, SSRM Technique and Finance at CommonSpirit Well being, and Brittany Schumacker, Nationwide VP, Enterprise Improvement at Premier Inc., to debate the state of the healthcare provide chain for the reason that pandemic and their key provide chain initiatives by way of 2024.

John Bain: How is your provide chain operation totally different for the reason that pandemic?

Shireen Ahmad: Along with the pandemic, there are lots of occasions which have affected or affected CommonSpirit's provide chain lately. All through 2019 and early 2020, the merger was one of many largest challenges we confronted. Initially of the pandemic, we had been actively transitioning GPOs. It was a little bit of a shock once we had been sitting in a room in March 2020 attempting to determine how we had been going to transition to 1 GPO, after which the subsequent week the pandemic shut down the nation and we needed to scramble. to buy private protecting tools to help our 145 hospitals and workers.

On the time, we had two strategic partnerships with distributors that we now have maintained ever since. As a part of the collaboration with each, we had been in all probability one of many few IDNs with a gentle provide of PPE for our physicians.

Learn extra within the newest difficulty of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting.