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AHRMM's Policies and Procedures Manual for the Health Care Supply Chain, 2nd Edition contains over 160 new and revised health care supply chain policies and procedures to reflect current leading practices needed to run a successful supply chain department in any health care organization.

WHITE PAPER RESOURCEReadySet Surgical: Addressing Revenue Leakage in Hospitals

Join us in this session as we dissect the strategies, challenges, and triumphs in navigating the often underestimated realm of Purchased Services to unlock significant savings while retaining strong supplier partnerships.

This on-demand session was presented at the Spring Summit: Transformational Excellence.

This on-demand session was presented at the Spring Summit: Transformational Excellence.

Learn how Rush University Medical Center took an innovative approach to cost reduction and achieved a 21% reduction in the hospital’s shoulder replacement spend, delivering $800,000 in savings in less than one year.

This white paper explores the importance of balancing health care supply sourcing through both domestic and international suppliers, the benefits and challenges of building new, domestic health care supply chains, and why community sourcing and warehousing can benefit hospitals, their staff and communities, and the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Explore common indirect spend risk considerations and prepare to take steps to introduce resiliency within indirect spend categories.

Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.

Learn how Baptist Health forged its traditional AP cost center into a cost savings driver.

In this case study, learn how Kaleida Health drove system-wide clinical-supply integration using three key strategies to build a clinically integrated supply chain.

BJ McCluskey, Director of Resource Optimization at McLeod Health, discusses how supply chain and surgical teams at McLeod Health improved data points to generate meaningful, relevant and actionable information through collaboration with all stakeholders including Finance and other departments. This podcast is also available as a webcast. Watch Webcast  

Explore opportunities for improving the procure-to-pay cycle to generate better outcomes for both health care organizations and their supplier partners.

Improve clinical and financial outcomes for hip fracture care using a standardized, collaborative service line approach.

The Introduction to Health Care Supply Chain eLearning courses provide grounded education for those new or seeking a refresher.

This advanced course leads learners through 10 areas of infrastructure surrounding the functions of health care supply chain management.

  Price: Member: $98.00 | Non-Member: $198.00 Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 2 hours

Healthcare expenses continue to rise and yet hospitals are realizing consistently shrinking margins. Healthcare supply costs are typically the second largest expense to a hospital and must be managed in a manner that ensures providers have access to quality products but also with an emphasis on cost awareness and expense reduction strategies. Healthcare supply chains must leverage their data in order to make better business decisions to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies through the use of business analytics.

How to assess the total procedural value through a clinical and economic lens.

Consider how the four emerging themes on purchased services and their leading practices can deliver improved margins.