About AHRMM

Peter Briggs, CMRP

Provider Candidate

Peter Briggs
Supply Chain Operations Manager
JPS Health Network
1500 S. Main St.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 702-5868
pbriggs@jpshealth.org

Background

Member of AHRMM for 14 years
14 years of experience in the resource and materials management field

Certifications

Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP)

Current Position and Responsibilities

Type of Organization: Hospital/Medical Center
1.5 years in current position

Responsible for: the oversight of supplies from the vendor to the end user. Plans and implementsprograms to ensure supplies are delivered in the most efficient manner. Oversight for 31 staff covering two departments: Receiving and Stores and Central Service. Responsible for policy creation and implementation.

Service to Local Chapter

I am in my second year of membership with North Texas AHRMM. This is my first year volunteering with the group. I am working on improving membership by reaching out to surrounding hospitals and letting them know what we are about. I have partnered with the Texas Hospital Association to provide info on surrounding hospitals and with a fellow member who will be producing mailings for the projecty.

I am also involved with a group working on opportunities that the local chapter can participate in to help the needy in our area. This year our goal is to be involved with several charitable opportunities.

Service to AHRMM National

This is the first year that I have been involved with an AHRMM national committee. I am currently involved with the Chapter Relations Committee. This has been a great experience so far. I have had the opportunity to talk with other chapters and provide them any help they may need.

AHRMM Annual Conferences and Leadership
Training Conferences

2006 FACHE course – Accelerating Strategic, Operational, and Crisis Management
2006 VHA Leadership Conference
2010 UHC Conference
2008 Health Trust University Conference
2007-09 and 2011 Maximum Impact Leadership (now called Leadercast) conference
Involved for the past 1.5 years in my hospital's Studer initiative. Each quarter, hospital leadership attends a 2-day leadership event on various subjects.

Other Professional Associations and/or Community Service

Cowtown Brushup 2009 – volunteered to help paint homes for the poor.
Toy Distribution 2009 – volunteered to help with the annual toy distribution for Christmas
Chair employee fund raising committee 2004 – The committee was given the goal of $50,000. The total raised was over $170,000. This was part of an overall campaign to raise funds for a new ED.
Finance committee 2008 – Downeast Community Health

Why you are seeking this position?

I am seeking a board position so that I can use my experience to help promote and improve the healthcare supply chain management field.

How can you advance AHRMM's mission to advance healthcare through supply chain excellence?

Through my fifteen years of experience at hospitals ranging from 65 bed to 465 beds I have the range of experiences that will allow me to be an active participant and provide valuable feedback to improve our profession. I have had experience managing two hospitals as well as managing multiple departments. I have also worked in various settings including for-profit, not-for-profit and county owned facilities. This background will allow me to participate and provide valuable feedback to my fellow board members.

Identify 3 - 5 strategic priorities you think AHRMM should undertake and your reasons for identifying them as important.

1. GTIN – While this is a current initiative it must remain an important initiative. The use of standardized id numbers must be a top concern as Supply Chain moves to the next level of opportunity. Global Trade Item Numbers will provide a standardized platform that will allow improved tracking of products and a keener ability to source products. Unlike the grocery industry where a red apple is the same as the other red apple, medical supplies may prove more difficult, but by no means impossible.

2. IDN – GPO's struggle to provide the level of service they were hailed for yearsback. Larger hospitals can easily meet volume requirements and smaller hospitals can join larger groups or IDN's to receive the “good” pricing. I believe AHRMM could play a key role in providing balanced information on the formation of an IDN, the role a GPO may play and how hospitals can navigate the choppy waters of this subject.

3. Education – While the educational level of leadership continues to improve what are the opportunities for staff? I am finding more and more that I need technical skills more than muscle. I need people who can think on their own. This requires some targeted education. While AHRMM provides some great on-line courses I think there are opportunities to align with a college to provide more in-depth education in areas like math, critical thinking and business related courses.

4. Local Chapters – A concerted effort needs to be made to help build local chapters. AHRMM should take a lead role in helping hospital supply managers to develop local chapters. It is often believed that you need a lot of nearby members, but maybe there are other options like one annual meeting and the rest of the year doing conference calls. Until someone provides the instructions and assistance this will not happen. Networking is the single most important aspect of improving the supply chain.

Identify your personal and professional qualities that will be valuable in the position for which you are being considered.

I work well with groups listening to concerns and providing feedback. I have an even temper and can take criticism. I currently work in a large county owned facility. This experience provides me unique insight into the future of socialized medicine. While some say socialized medicine is a long way off, I say it is here. I work in it everyday.

How will you use these qualities to benefit AHRMM, the Board, and the members?

My skill set will benefit the supply chain community by providing solid information that can be used to improve operations in hospital supply chain management. My goal for anywhere I have ever worked has been to improve, to make things better. I will keep that focus working with ARHMM to make it a stronger organization recognized as a leader in the field.

What do you expect to be your single, greatest contribution to AHRMM as a Board member?

I hope that my greatest contribution will be to measurably improve the membership and their participation in AHRMM and their local chapters.

Describe one transformational experience in your professional life you have been involved with and what you have learned from this experience.

The experience that comes to mind is when I chaired the employee capital campaign. Our goal was, of course, to raise money but it was also to show the community that the staff was behind the project just as much as we were asking them to be. I had the opportunity to meet many local leaders and learn from their experiences. The challenge to raise money provided much more to me then the success of exceeding goals. It provided me the opportunity to expand my horizon, to get out of the shell of supplies and see where the rubber meets the road. It is amazing when you attend a dinner to raise funds from the people for whom you provided care. Wow, it really drove home the importance of Supply Chain and the impact it can have.