- Alan Dorich
- Healthcare
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge Health Alliance’s recent changes have enhanced its supply chain.
By Alan Dorich
Providing quality care is the main focus of every health system, but it is not the only goal for Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). “We pride ourselves on providing the access to healthcare to clients and doing it in a way that’s fiscally responsible,” Senior Director of Materials Management William J. McFarland says.
Based in Cambridge, Mass., CHA provides 140,000 patients in its region with primary and specialty care, emergency services, hospital care, maternity care and behavioral health services. The system’s history goes back to the 1800s, when it was a municipal hospital in its home city.
Over the years, it merged with two additional hospitals in Somerville and Everett, Mass. Today, “Our niche is as a safety net hospital,” McFarland says, noting that CHA primarily serves a culturally diverse, economically deprived clientele.