November 8, 2023- Medline announced it has entered into a multi-year prime vendor distribution agreement with University of Utah Health, a healthcare provider for the people of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, western Colorado, and much of Nevada and the only academic medical center in the Mountain West.
Medline will exclusively provide an extensive portfolio of essential medical supplies and solutions across University of Utah Health’s inpatient acute care hospitals and outpatient network of physician offices and ambulatory surgery centers.
University of Utah Health’s network of facilities will be serviced by Medline’s recently opened 710,000-square-foot Salt Lake City, Utah, distribution center. The Salt Lake City facility is part of Medline’s ongoing Healthcare Resilience Initiative, in which Medline has invested $2 billion since 2018 in domestic manufacturing, distribution, and IT to strengthen the country’s healthcare supply chain.
Through Medline’s advanced analytics platform, University of Utah Health will have the ability to easily monitor key metrics, such as item utilization, contract compliance, price accuracy and spend by product categories. In addition, University of Utah Health will gain operational efficiencies through streamlined logistics and inventory management with the transition to Medline’s Put Away Ready® lowest-unit-of-measure delivery system, which reduces labor effort and improves dock-to-stock time.