St. Luke’s University Health Network

: Tim O'Connor; Healthcare; 31 October 2017

St. Luke’s University Health Network

St. Lukes

St. Luke’s University Health Network in Pennsylvania uses supply chain standardization

to keep pace with its fast growth.

By Tim O’Connor

Few healthcare systems around the country are growing as rapidly as St. Luke University Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania. Within the past few months, the seven-hospital health network announced plans to merge with Sacred Heart Hospital and Blue Mountain Health System, which will add three more hospitals to its system, and announced plans to build another hospital in Orwigsburg, Pa.

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: Jim Harris; Healthcare; 30 October 2017

PartsSource

PartsSource offers hospitals a single source for their parts and services needs to reduce supply chain costs and increase asset uptime.

By Jim Harris

Healthcare providers look to PartsSource as a single source for biomedical and diagnostic imaging on-demand products. “We are often described as being part Amazon, part group purchasing organization [GPO] and part enterprise resource planning system,” President and CEO Dr. Phil Settimi says.

The Cleveland, Ohio-headquartered company delivers the industry’s only online, fully integrated medical products and parts procurement e-commerce marketplace for hospitals, clinical sites and health systems across the country. “Some hospitals have to work with hundreds of vendors to keep their hospital equipment running,” adds Kate Shafer, director of marketing and communications. “PartsSource is able to manage all those vendors on their behalf. The customer knows they can use the same ordering process for everything they need and PartsSource acts as part of their supply chain.”

: Bianca Herron; Healthcare; 13 September 2017

Sanofi

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Sanofi prides itself on providing patients with on time, quality products to help them live healthier lives.

By Bianca Herron

As one of the largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide, Sanofi takes pride in making a difference in its patients’ lives and ultimately enabling them to enjoy a healthier life.

Sanofi’s U.S. headquarters are in Bridgewater, N.J., and it employs more than 15,000 people domestically. It consists of four key businesses: Sanofi Genzyme (specialty care), Sanofi Pasteur (vaccines), Pharma (prescription drugs and generics within the diabetes cardiovascular and general medicines franchises) and Chattem (consumer healthcare division).

“We are a major healthcare provider of pharmaceuticals,” Stefan Roehr, Vice President of North American Supply Chain, says. “In 2016, we had net sales of more than $33 billion. On a global scale, we have over 100,000 employees working in more than 100 countries.”

: Janice Hoppe-Spiers; Healthcare; 26 October 2017

Medical Specialties Distributors

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Medical Specialties Distributors improves its fill rate performance for its customers’ patients through distribution enhancements.

By Janice Hoppe-Spiers

As a leading healthcare solutions provider serving the home infusion, home medical equipment, oncology and long-term care markets, it is vital for Medical Specialties Distributors (MSD) to offer fast delivery of supplies to meet the ever-changing needs of its customers. To ensure the company’s success, Director of Supply Chain Tony Calabria has been focused on improvements to materials management processes for the past two years. “MSD’s supply chain is very fluid and continues to adapt to service the needs of patients,” Calabria says. “If we don’t have what they need, don’t do a good job processing the demand signals we get and don’t collaborate well with our suppliers, we impact the patient. People are reliant on us and we take that mission very seriously.”

: Jim Harris; Healthcare; 01 September 2017

Covenant HealthCare

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Covenant HealthCare leans into the supply chain challenges within the facilities it operates.

By Jim Harris

With more than 100 years of history, Covenant HealthCare is an independent, locally owned and operated organization supporting multiple locations throughout mid-Michigan - this provides both advantages and challenges.

“Having to support supply chain management in an older infrastructure can be a bit of a challenge, but what I think is nice about our environment here, especially from a supply chain leader perspective, is that as an independent organization we have the ability to craft solutions with more flexibility and creativity than larger systems,” says Mike Rossi, director of supply chain for the Saginaw, Michigan-based health system.

Covenant HealthCare formed in 1998 following the merger of two long-standing local hospitals into a single entity. Both hospitals were established in the late 1800s and underwent a number of building projects and renovations in the decades before the merger.

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