Episode #15 - Steve Kiewiet
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
Release Date: 09/20/2017
Healthcare Supplychain Radio: Managing Inventory Post-COVID
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
Host: John Pritchard, Publisher, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC) Participants: • Angela McNally, Vice President of Provider Solutions, Owens & Minor • Patrick McMahon, Vice President of Services, Owens & Minor As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, many hospitals quickly stockpiled supplies they had never sourced before, and now they have items they didn’t use during the peak of the pandemic. How do hospitals get their COVID-19 stockpile in order? Angela McNally and Patrick McMahon of Owens & Minor discuss this challenge and more with John Pritchard of...
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Healthcare Supplychain Radio: Best Practices for Hospitals and Supply Chain Resuming Surgeries
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
As states begin to lift restrictions on certain surgeries and procedures for hospitals and health systems, electives have restarted after being suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. John Raab and Patrick McMahon of Owens & Minor, and Mark Campbell of Tampa General Hospital discuss the supply chain and demand challenges for hospitals during the restart, the staffing issues, the financial pressures, the data points and the PPE tracking with John Pritchard of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting (JHC) in the latest Healthcare Supplychain Radio podcast, “Best Practices for Hospitals and...
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Episode #20 - Michael DeLuca
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode we talk to Michael DeLuca. Michael DeLuca has been involved in supply chain systems and e-business integrations in the healthcare, manufacturing, software and consulting services sectors for the last 17 years. He is currently an Executive Vice President at Prodigo Solutions Inc. In this role, DeLuca leads the Operations side of the business responsible for software engineering, product development, quality assurance and client services (implementation and support). Prior to joining Prodigo, DeLuca was Senior Director of Supply Chain Systems & Consulting Services at UPMC (a...
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Episode #19 - Raymond Davis
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode we talk to Raymond Davis, Vice President Supply Chain, of Universal Health Services. One of the nation’s largest and most respected hospital companies, UHS has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Steadily growing from a startup to an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, UHS today has annual revenue nearing $10 billion. In 2017, UHS was recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; ranked #276 on the Fortune 500, and listed #275 in Forbes inaugural ranking of America’s Top 500 Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA,...
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Episode #18 - Ginny Borncamp
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode we talk to Ginny Borncamp, Senior vice president, chief sourcing officer, with Providence St. Joseph Health. Ginny Borncamp started her career in healthcare more than 20 years ago. "Very early on, I learned to approach supply chain management as a conduit to improved patient care," she says. Prior to joining Providence, she worked with Allina Health and Intermountain Healthcare in supply chain and medical informatics. While with Intermountain, Borncamp served as the medical program director for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and provided consulting services...
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Episode #17 - Mark Zacur & Jim Poggi
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode, guest host Scott Adams has a conversation about the new reimbursement schedule from Medicare known as PAMA. Scott first talks with Mark Zacur, VP & General Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific where they talk about possible impacts on our healthcare system and patients. Then Scott talks to Jim Poggi from Tested Insights on how this will impact the POL, or Physician Office Labs. Note from Mark Zacur: "Views expressed through this podcast are my own and do not represent the opinions of any entity whatsoever with which I have been, am now, or will be affiliated...
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Episode #16 - Christine Torres
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
On this episode we talk to Christine Torres, System Vice President, Supply Chain and Biomedical Engineering, Main Line Health in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
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Episode #15 - Steve Kiewiet
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
On this episode we talk with Steve Kiewiet, Vice president, supply chain operations and interim co-chief supply chain officer with BJC HealthCare.
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Episode #14 - Timothy Nedley
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode we talk to Tim Nedley, Vice President, Materials Management for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has overall responsibility for distribution, logistics, materials management, transportation, clinical engineering, print, freight management and fleet management. Nedley specializes in change management, operational enhancements and other projects that have a positive impact to an organization’s bottom line. He’s honed and applied best practices over 28 years of leadership experience at UPS, Owens & Minor and UPMC. Since starting at UPMC, Nedley and his team have...
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Episode #13 - Randy Hayas
Healthcare Supply Chain Radio with John Pritchard
In this episode we talk to Randy Hayas, the Chief Supply Chain Officer at Orlando Health an eight-hospital integrated health care delivery network in Orlando, Florida with more than $2.7Billion in Net patient Revenue. Mr. Hayas joined the organization in 2007 and has over 30 years’ experience in supply chain, healthcare administration and consulting ranging from small community hospitals to large academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks. Mr. Hayas has a Bachelor in Business Administration degree majoring in Finance and Economics and is a Certified Materials &...
info_outlineOn this episode we talk with Steve Kiewiet, Vice president, supply chain operations and interim co-chief supply chain officer with BJC HealthCare.
This episode is sponsored by Vantage Point Logistics. Learn more at www.VantagePointLogistics.com
Steve started his healthcare career in high school, when he served as a member of the volunteer ambulance crew in his hometown. He spent 10 years as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy, after which he worked as a paramedic while finishing his college education. After college, he was a pharmaceutical sales rep before moving to distribution, logistics and operations with a large national distributor serving the physician office market. He then moved into a business development role with a company that manufactures automated external defibrillators. After that, he joined Cardinal Health, where he had three different roles in Lean Six Sigma process improvement, product/category management and distribution operations. He landed in his current role at BJC HealthCare in December 2012.
His primary responsibility at BJC is supply chain operations, distribution/logistics, inventory planning/management along with centralized purchasing and the corporate travel/purchasing card program management. His team consists of the supply chain professionals working in BJC’s 15 hospitals, who partner everyday with the clinical and hospital operations leaders to ensure they have the supplies that are needed to support their mission in the delivery of care. Kiewiet recently assumed a co-leadership role with a peer as the chief supply chain officer for BJC HealthCare. Together they lead an organization of over 300 people, including sourcing, utilization management, analytics and process improvement professionals.