2010 SUPPLY CHAIN DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR

Will your team be HPN’s 2010 Supply Chain Department of the Year?

Healthcare Purchasing News certainly wants to recognize you but that may not happen if we don’t receive your nomination!

HPN announces our 8TH Annual HPN Supply Chain Department of the Year award, which we rebranded this year to emphasize the expanded focus and greater importance these key contributors provide to the delivery of quality patient care. We’ve also streamlined the number of areas in which we plan to evaluate facilities.

Nominate your team today for the 2010 Supply Chain Department of the Year award by providing details of achievements and accomplishments in the following 6 areas: Teamwork, Innovation, Customer Service, Patient Care, Financial/Operational Cost Savings and Comprehensive Strategic Planning.

1. Teamwork – How well department staff members communicate, cooperate and work together to make the department collectively greater than the sum of its multiple functions.

2. Innovation – How the department approaches day-to-day operations for internal customers that highlights and reinforces its importance to the organization, including the use of information technology and performance improvement management processes to improve efficiency and productivity.

3. Customer service – How the department manages product evaluations, contracting, purchasing, distribution, inventory management, consulting and facilitation for internal customers, including the operating room, nursing floors, and others, such as laboratory, radiology, clinical specialties and outpatient services.

4. Patient Care – How the department’s administrative, financial and operational activities directly and indirectly influence doctors and nurses and clinical performance in terms of high-quality patient care.

5. Financial/Operational Cost Savings – How specifically the department has reduced non-labor and labor expenses to maintain a healthy bottom line for the organization, including increased productivity, improved service levels and fewer errors.

6. Comprehensive Strategic Planning – How the department efficiently and intelligently works with partners along the supply chain continuum, including raw materials suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, group purchasing organizations, service companies (such as consulting firms and waste management firms) to assist their internal customers within the individual hospital or multiple facilities within the health system for the benefit of patients.

Document your accomplishments in these eight areas and submit by Tuesday, June 1, to Editor, Healthcare Purchasing News 2477 Stickney Point Rd., Suite 315B, Sarasota, FL 34231 Fax: (941) 927-9588 or e-mail: editor@hpnonline.com. 

For your nomination to qualify, please be sure to comply with the following rules:

1. Any nomination must be original and exclusive to HPN and not have been submitted – either original or edited – to any other publication or online media outlet currently or within the previous year.

2. Any nomination must focus on team-driven contributions and results more heavily than outsourced services to consultants, distributors and GPOs. Basically, emphasize what your team has accomplished over what a third-party vendor did for you.

3. Any nominated facility must be willing to share relevant basic financial details with our readers, such as annual revenues, annual expenses and annual purchasing volume.