COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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…
- Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness
- Distribution
- Inventory Management
- Logistics
- Procurement
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Sourcing
- Suppliers
- Cost Management
- COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
- Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
- Sustainability
- Physician Preference Items (PPI)
- Products and Services Contracting
- Purchased Services
- Shipping and Receiving
Supply chain teams across the U.S. continue to face supply shortages. One of the lessons learned during COVID-19 was the need to diversify and shorten the end-to-end supply chain.
Consider how direct sourcing can enable access to PPE and the leading practices of
building supply chain diversity and resiliency for the future in this Banner Health case study.
Though the health care industry is continuing to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many industry leaders are also looking to build a more resilient supply chain by asking, “What could we have done differently?”, and “How should we prepare for future pandemics and other crises?”
As health care emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain resiliency is a priority. One primary consideration has been how to develop inventory reserves to mitigate the risk of severe product shortages.
COVID-19 has exposed the fragile nature of the health care supply chain, but it’s not the first
public health crisis to do so. Michael Schiller, AHRMM's Senior Director of Supply Chain, and Richard Bagley, Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Penn State Health, led the discussion on…
N95 RESPIRATORS
Company
Product
Company POC/Contact Information
DemeTech Corporation
N95 Respirators
Luis Arguello, Vice President
luisjr@demetech.us, 305-824-1048
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.
- Capital Equipment
- Central Sterile
- Clinical Integration
- Clinical Resource Management (CRM)
- Cost Management
- COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
- COVID-19: CDC, FDA and CMS Guidance
- COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
- COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
- Data
- Disaster/Outbreak Preparedness
- Distribution
- Finance & Budgeting
- Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
- Inventory Management
- Logistics
- Pharmacy
- Physician Preference Items (PPI)
- Planning, Design, and Construction
- Procurement
- Products and Services Contracting
- Purchased Services
- Shipping and Receiving
- Suppliers
- Support Services
- Sustainability
- Technology
Homeland Securities Investigations (HSI) and 3M have identified counterfeit products bearing the following Lot Codes. The Lot Code may be found on individual masks and the boxes in which they were shipped.
AHRMM is raising awareness about the risk of counterfeit N95 respirators. Please review the following resources on how to identify valid vs. counterfeit, and the differences between respirators and masks.