April 21, 2023 – Cardinal Health ™ Laboratory Products and Services distributes to more than 6,300 hospital labs, hospital-owned clinics, and reference laboratories. It leverages the scale of one of the largest dedicated lab distribution networks in the U.S. to deliver best-in-class laboratory products and logistics solutions.
“There’s been an evolution during the pandemic on the importance of the laboratory supply chain and having a distribution partner who understands the laboratory from both a technical and logistics perspective,” said Emily Berlin, Vice President Laboratory Marketing & Aero-Med Commercial Sales and Operations.
“We intensely focus our time from a product management and global sourcing perspective making sure our portfolios have the breadth and depth needed to support testing.”
Berlin said Cardinal Health has added more products, product programs and additional service and/or cost options to its portfolio to make sure there is reliability on the supplies needed at the time the clinicians need them for testing, as planning has become paramount for health systems.
“Many health systems historically operated on a just-in-time approach, which was a standard practice until the pandemic,” Berlin said. “But then weaknesses in this approach were identified. So, by partnering with a laboratory distributor, healthcare systems can create resiliency plans on the necessary products they need within their facilities to keep patient care and testing ongoing.”
Read more in the latest issue of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting.