Intalere launches Accreditation Readiness Solution
Intalere (St. Louis, MO) announced a new Accreditation Readiness Consulting Solution designed to help member organizations improve quality, enhance patient safety, and positively impact reimbursement. Intalere’s Accreditation Readiness Consulting Solution offers a collaborative process with the organization to develop a personalized agenda to meet their specific goals. Each organization receives a formalized report and recommendations on ways to accelerate organizational performance improvement and accreditation strategies. Key focal points of Intalere’s Accreditation Readiness Consulting Solution include: compliance with federal, state, and local laws; education; policies/procedures; quality assessment and performance improvement; and staffing.
Banner Health has $1.7B worth of construction projects in the works
Banner Health (Phoenix, AZ) has 386 active construction projects across its markets, totaling $1.7 billion. Not all of the $1.7 billion will be spent in this calendar year since many of the projects are ongoing and will take multiple years to complete. Much of the $1.4 billion in active construction projects in Arizona are part of major projects that began in 2015 and 2016 at two of Banner’s hospitals in Phoenix and Tucson. Kip Edwards, VP of facilities services at Banner, said he expects Banner to continue the same building pace into 2019.
Letter to the Editor
Trained for Battle
To the Editor:
Thank you for continuing to publish an informative and supportive magazine for healthcare supply chain professionals.
I just read “The Third Degree” (April 2018 Journal of Healthcare Contracting) and while I agree with most of the points, I’d like to suggest that you do a follow-up piece about the supply chain education program of the Army Medical Service Corps.
In September 1968, I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Medical Service Corps, and in 1969 I was selected for the prestigious Supply and Services School. It was 10 weeks of 40 hours/week intensive training to prepare us for any supply/services/logistics position that we were assigned after the school. This program was far more difficult than earning my master’s degree in hospital administration, and I still use many of the logistics principles in my consulting practice today.
We had case studies/presentations, fundamentals of supply storage in combat and non-combat situations, equipment control (imagine being accountable for every piece of medical equipment in a hospital or in a combat medical battalion), complete knowledge of the federal supply catalog with the ability to immediately locate the properties of any med or medical supply, and the ability to plan the supply and petroleum requirements for troop movement from point A to Point B.
After graduation, I was assigned as the Division Medical Supply Officer for the Second Infantry Division in South Korea, and I was responsible for all the medical supply operations for the Division. I am forever grateful for the education and the service experience in the Army.
Walt Justice
CEO
Justice Healthcare Management Group
Ft. Myers, Florida