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Optimize Your Healthcare Supply Chain Performance:
A Strategic Approach
Gerald R. Ledlow, PhD, FACHE
Allison P. Corry
Mark A. Cwiek, JD, FACHE
ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-950-7
Softbound, 70 pp, 2007
Imprint: Executive Essentials Book
Order code: 2080
Price: $50.00
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If you are not optimizing supply chain performance, you are missing the opportunity to control costs, improve patient safety, and increase nurse and physician satisfaction.
This book provides the information you need to understand and improve supply chain management at your organization. Written for senior leaders, this book explains how to enable your team to make sound supply chain decisions. Selecting where to make changes, when to use different supply chain approaches, and how to find greater value are at the heart of this book.
This practical resource provides guidelines for ensuring optimal supply chain operations, including how to:
Minimize supply chain tasks for clinicians
Increase staff knowledge of supply chain operations
Develop supply chain metrics for service, quality, and cost
Develop supply chain goals and objectives by service line
Focus on the management of billable supplies
Get started right away by implementing one of the supply chain improvement projects described in the book.
Each project description includes estimated costs and potential benefits to help you determine the best fit for your organization. This book also provides tips for managing relationships with various stakeholders, including manufacturers and distributors.
Gerald R. Ledlow, PhD, MHA, FACHE, is graduate program director in health services policy and management at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. Previously, Dr. Ledlow was the corporate vice president for supply chain at the Genesis Project, a Sisters of Mercy Health System initiative to redesign the delivery of healthcare services, specifically focusing on supply chain processes. |
Allison P. Corry, MHA, MBA, is a senior consultant for ARAMARK Healthcare–Supply Chain Management Services. Previously, she was a senior consultant for the Genesis Project. |
Mark A. Cwiek, JD, MHA, FACHE, is the director of the health administration division of the Central Michigan University School of Health Sciences in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Mr. Cwiek also has more than 15 years of experience as in-house legal counsel, hospital executive, and CEO of hospitals and healthcare systems |
| “In the last decade, healthcare CEOs and senior executives have come to recognize that optimal supply chain performance is a necessary ingredient for both quality healthcare and financial performance. This book takes the importance of optimal supply chain management to a new level. This book should be an essential part of every healthcare CEO’s library.”
—Gail L. Warden, FACHE, President Emeritus, Henry Ford Health System, and Professor, Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan |
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