JHC Notebook: Régine Honoré Villain of Ochsner Health
“Ten People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting” honors Régine Honoré Villain of Ochsner Health. Editor’s Note: Thanks to all those who made the effort to…
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Vizient awards Novaplus agreement to Sri Trang Gloves to improve supply assurance for nitrile gloves
August 16, 2021 – Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) announced an agreement with Sri Trang Gloves (Thailand) for chemo-rated nitrile exam gloves as part of the…
COVID Report: A Cloudy Outlook for the Delta Variant
August 16, 2021 – What direction are infection rates and deaths headed in the United States? The outlook is cloudy. This much is certain. Hospitals…
AliMed introduces economical line of staff and patient infection prevention dispensers for wider access to PPE
August 16, 2021 – AliMed, Inc. (Dedham, MA) introduced its new family of high-quality, economical Infection Prevention Stations to aid hospitals, clinics, physician’s offices, and…
Compassion fatigue, staff shortages affecting frontline healthcare workers
August 16, 2021 – Nurses across the country, but especially in areas hard hit by the Delta variant, are suffering from compassion fatigue. Hospitals and…
UnityPoint Health expands strategic supply chain partnership with Premier Inc.
August 16, 2021 – UnityPoint Health has partnered with Premier Inc. (Charlotte, NC) to foster optimal management of its supply chain portfolio and support high-value…
JHC Notebook: Effective skills for supply chain leadership
August 2021 With an industry as evolutionary as healthcare supply chain, it’s critical for leadership to develop and utilize skills to effectively lead teams and…
Mississippi hospital system on brink of “failure” due to COVID-19 surge, lack of ICU beds
August 13, 2021 – A surge in coronavirus patients and a shortage of healthcare workers and ICU beds have pushed Mississippi’s hospital system to the…
CommonSpirit Health to require all employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
August 13, 2021 – CommonSpirit Health (Chicago, IL) announced that it will require its 150,000 employees in 140 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites…
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital holds groundbreaking ceremony for construction on new cancer center
August 13, 2021 – Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital held a “groundbreaking” ceremony for its new state-of-the-art cancer center. The renovation project will be the largest construction…