AHRMM

Stewart Layhe, director of supply chain, Denver Health, shares his method for measuring supply chain department success with quarterly support card surveys used to make improvements.

It doesn’t take a deadly pandemic like Ebola to put your supply chain—and your staff and patients--at risk. Flu outbreaks cause sudden shortages of critical supplies and happen frequently. Jason Burnham, associate director, O&M Halyard Health, shares three steps you need to know in order to be prepared for the next outbreak.

During times of disaster, hospitals play an integral role as the community safety net, providing essential medical care that must be available often times within a moment’s notice. Strategic planning and ongoing training are necessary to identifying, dispatching and mobilizing critical material and human resources. The health care supply chain professional is a vital component of any hospital emergency response team and the hospital incident command center.

This AHRMM tool covers how health care supply chain professionals should prepare for disasters, with the input from various disciplines. The tool includes supply consumption adjustment calculations and several preparedness plans such as The Joint Commission Emergency Operations Plan ®, the Hospital Incident Commend System (HICS) and the 10 Elements for a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP).

Teresa Dail, chief supply chain officer, VUMC and 2018 AHRMM board chair, shares AHRMM’s definition of clinical integration and why a clinically integrated supply chain is important to her and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

This short webcast reviews the strengths of pharmacy and supply chain to explore how they can partner to improve patient safety, patient health, and organizational finances.

Presenter: Stewart Layhe, supply chain project manager, Denver Health

Free professional strengths finder grid template. This tool is mentioned in the AHRMM webcast, Taking Your Great Team to New Performance Levels. 

Nicole Mazzei-Williams, region director, TRIOSE, discusses working at the most optimum level when your individual strengths are used. She also provides tips for supply chain leaders and managers on how to coach employees who may be under stress to get back to their strengths.

Judi Proctor, senior consultant and metrics ambassador, Vizient walks through a benchmarking ro