Sutter Health recognized as Healthcare Purchasing News 2022 Supply Chain Department of the Year
Healthcare Purchasing News is proud to recognize Sutter Health as its 2022 Supply Chain Department of the Year!
Headquartered in Sacramento and operating 24 acute-care hospitals and more than 200 clinics, Sutter Health has been a pillar of communities in Northern California for nearly a century.
Over the past few years, Sutter Health has transformed its supply chain network by implementing a strategy based on solid and simple fundamentals of communication and interconnectedness, combining internal and external know-how to make its multifacility integrated delivery network (IDN) a smooth-running, well-oiled machine.
During the past 5 years, the enterprise has undergone much change in its supply chain department, both in people and policy. The changes at the top spurred a new focus, one that believed in and relied on the talents and vision of the people of whom it was comprised. Sutter Health placed heavy focus on the areas of reducing contracted assistance, building external relations, and effectively managing its internal strengths.
The results have been nothing less than extraordinary.
Sutter Health’s installation of a modern and efficient logistical network has enabled the organization to thrive with a supply resiliency that has maintained its luster throughout the ongoing pandemic. By centralizing and standardizing its network and fine-tuning its vision based on simple and rational strategies of efficiency, Sutter Health’s Supply Chain Department has become a model of excellence.
“What’s noteworthy about Sutter earning the 2022 title is that its efforts and achievements, by and large, were based on something that can be created, developed and implemented by any organization – large or small, financially and technologically well-heeled or not,” said Healthcare Purchasing News Senior Editor Rick Dana Barlow. “It’s modeling. This represents the foundation for successful operations, whether during crisis or calm – clearly demonstrated by Sutter’s winning Supply Chain team. Modeling certainly can be fortified by generous budgets and expensive, state-of-the-art equipment and technology, but Sutter showed that those preconceived prerequisites are not required for performance improvement and success. This is a credit to Sutter’s team and should make their win such an encouragement to all healthcare organizations because it represents the great equalizer as we pursue progress in a post-pandemic environment.”
