Host: John Pritchard, Publisher, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC)

Participants:

• Angela McNally, Vice President of Provider Solutions, Owens & Minor

• Patrick McMahon, Vice President of Services, Owens & Minor

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, many hospitals quickly stockpiled supplies they had never sourced before, and now they have items they didn’t use during the peak of the pandemic. How do hospitals get their COVID-19 stockpile in order?

Angela McNally and Patrick McMahon of Owens & Minor discuss this challenge and more with John Pritchard of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC) in the second part of a two-part series covering hospitals and IDNs resuming surgeries. It’s the latest Healthcare Supplychain Radio podcast called “Managing Inventory Post-COVID.”

“Hospitals face dynamic challenges moving forward due to carrying large amounts of inventory with unpredictable demand,” said Pritchard. “Angela and Patrick speak to post-COVID strategies that can prepare hospitals for the long-term and for future epidemics.”

To learn more about inventory management solutions for providers, visit: https://www.owens-minor.com/our-solutions/provider-inventory-solutions/

As states begin to lift restrictions on certain surgeries and procedures for hospitals and health systems, electives have restarted after being suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.

John Raab and Patrick McMahon of Owens & Minor, and Mark Campbell of Tampa General Hospital discuss the supply chain and demand challenges for hospitals during the restart, the staffing issues, the financial pressures, the data points and the PPE tracking with John Pritchard of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC) in the latest Healthcare Supplychain Radio podcast, “Best Practices for Hospitals and Supply Chain Resuming Surgeries.”

Historical data points are critical as hospitals restart elective surgeries. Knowing what procedures are scheduled one to four weeks ahead of time, what’s actually been done in the past, how to block time and utilize it, and tracking daily usage of surgical product and PPE, which has thrown a new wrinkle into the mix. Tracking PPE daily is new to the OR.

It’s important for hospitals to have confidence in their supply source, their distributor and their manufacturers. The supply chain is still intact, but the demand for product is more robust. Confidence in their supply will save hospitals from over ordering during this restart.

Host: John Pritchard, Publisher, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC)

 Participants:

• John Raab, National Director of Clinical Business Development, Owens & Minor
• Patrick McMahon, Vice President of Services, Owens & Minor
• Mark Campbell, Vice President of Supply Chain, Tampa General Hospital

 Note: Please look for the second of this two-part series next week on hospitals managing their supply chain post-COVID.

 Hospitals and health systems quickly stockpiled for the pandemic without much management of those supplies. Now, hospitals are cleaning up their stockpiles and face challenges of carrying large amounts of inventory with unpredictable demand. How can hospitals make sure they have the best practices in place to properly manage their stockpiles?

In this episode we talk to Michael DeLuca.

Michael DeLuca has been involved in supply chain systems and e-business integrations in the healthcare, manufacturing, software and consulting services sectors for the last 17 years. He is currently an Executive Vice President at Prodigo Solutions Inc. In this role, DeLuca leads the Operations side of the business responsible for software engineering, product development, quality assurance and client services (implementation and support). Prior to joining Prodigo, DeLuca was Senior Director of Supply Chain Systems & Consulting Services at UPMC (a $17 billion world-renowned health care provider and insurer based in Pittsburgh, PA). He also held roles in operations and procurement at Alcoa, Motorola, Commerce One and Traco (acquired by Alcoa in 2010). In February 2009, DeLuca was recognized as a “Pro to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, honoring supply chain leaders demonstrating leadership during times of economic crisis. In 2010 he was selected by UPMC Talent Management to represent the 500+ Supply Chain Management organization in the inaugural 2010 Leadership Development Intensive. As a member of that group he satisfied all requirements necessary for completion by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Executive Education, Katz Graduate School of Business.

DeLuca earned a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Marketing and Distribution Management from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business which has continually received the BusinessWeek top 10 ranking for Undergraduate Business Schools in the nation.

In this episode we talk to Raymond Davis, Vice President Supply Chain, of Universal Health Services.

One of the nation’s largest and most respected hospital companies, UHS has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Steadily growing from a startup to an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, UHS today has annual revenue nearing $10 billion. In 2017, UHS was recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; ranked #276 on the Fortune 500, and listed #275 in Forbes inaugural ranking of America’s Top 500 Public Companies.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than 81,000 employees and through its subsidiaries operates more than 320 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. 

In this episode we talk to Ginny Borncamp, Senior vice president, chief sourcing officer, with Providence St. Joseph Health.

Ginny Borncamp started her career in healthcare more than 20 years ago. "Very early on, I learned to approach supply chain management as a conduit to improved patient care," she says.

Prior to joining Providence, she worked with Allina Health and Intermountain Healthcare in supply chain and medical informatics. While with Intermountain, Borncamp served as the medical program director for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and provided consulting services to organizers of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy; and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

At Providence St. Joseph Health, Borncamp leads strategic sourcing, clinical integration/value analysis, contract administration, data management and analytics, procurement, and accounts payable, with teams located across the IDN's service areas.

In this episode, guest host Scott Adams has a conversation about the new reimbursement schedule from Medicare known as PAMA.

Scott first talks with Mark Zacur, VP & General Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific where they talk about possible impacts on our healthcare system and patients.

Then Scott talks to Jim Poggi from Tested Insights on how this will impact the POL, or Physician Office Labs.

Note from Mark Zacur: "Views expressed through this podcast are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated with”

On this episode we talk to Christine Torres, System Vice President, Supply Chain and Biomedical Engineering, Main Line Health in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Chris Torres began her healthcare career as a high-schooler, working in a research lab in a Philadelphia hospital. While still in college, she became certified as a surgical technician and scrubbed in the OR evenings and nights.

After graduation, she joined The Wistar Institute, an independent biomedical research firm in Philadelphia, but soon returned to the clinical setting, scrubbing in the OR, primarily for orthopedics and neuro procedures. She assumed additional responsibilities in SPD, logistics and materials management before taking a hiatus from healthcare in 2000, when she joined IKON (now Ricoh), to oversee facilities management in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.

She returned to Main Line Health in November 2002. As the system vice president of supply chain management and biomedical engineering, Torres oversees more than 250 employees in biomedical engineering, contracting, inventory control and logistics. The supply chain management team is responsible for approximately $300 million in spend. The program encompasses an in-house biomedical equipment management program, strategic sourcing, supply chain management technology and data analytics, clinical resource management aligned with clinician engagement, and systemized logistics management.

On this episode we talk with Steve Kiewiet, Vice president, supply chain operations and interim co-chief supply chain officer with BJC HealthCare.

This episode is sponsored by Vantage Point Logistics.  Learn more at www.VantagePointLogistics.com

Steve started his healthcare career in high school, when he served as a member of the volunteer ambulance crew in his hometown. He spent 10 years as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, after which he worked as a paramedic while finishing his college education. After college, he was a pharmaceutical sales rep before moving to distribution, logistics and operations with a large national distributor serving the physician office market. He then moved into a business development role with a company that manufactures automated external defibrillators. After that, he joined Cardinal Health, where he had three different roles in Lean Six Sigma process improvement, product/category management and distribution operations. He landed in his current role at BJC HealthCare in December 2012.

His primary responsibility at BJC is supply chain operations, distribution/logistics, inventory planning/management along with centralized purchasing and the corporate travel/purchasing card program management. His team consists of the supply chain professionals working in BJC’s 15 hospitals, who partner everyday with the clinical and hospital operations leaders to ensure they have the supplies that are needed to support their mission in the delivery of care. Kiewiet recently assumed a co-leadership role with a peer as the chief supply chain officer for BJC HealthCare. Together they lead an organization of over 300 people, including sourcing, utilization management, analytics and process improvement professionals.

In this episode we talk to Tim Nedley, Vice President, Materials Management for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He has overall responsibility for distribution, logistics, materials management, transportation, clinical engineering, print, freight management and fleet management.

Nedley specializes in change management, operational enhancements and other projects that have a positive impact to an organization’s bottom line. He’s honed and applied best practices over 28 years of leadership experience at UPS, Owens & Minor and UPMC. Since starting at UPMC, Nedley and his team have increased warehouse and materials management productivity in excess of 30% and are on track to drive out $14M in inbound freight spend over the next 5 years.

Nedley earned a BS in Human Resources from Geneva College.

In this episode we talk to Randy Hayas, the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Orlando Health an eight-hospital integrated health care delivery network in Orlando, Florida with more than $2.7Billion in Net patient Revenue.  Mr. Hayas joined the organization in 2007 and has over 30 years’ experience in supply chain, healthcare administration and consulting ranging from small community hospitals to large academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks. 

Mr. Hayas has a Bachelor in Business Administration degree majoring in Finance and Economics and is a Certified Materials & Resource Professional through the American Hospital Association.  In addition, Mr. Hayas is a Board Member of IDignity, Inc., a non-profit organization helping the disadvantaged in Central Florida through the complex steps of getting personal identification.