National Health Care Supply Chain Week (October 1-7), is an opportunity to recognize the importance of the health care supply chain professionals and honour them for their exceptional contributions to patient care and the innovative ways in which they support their health care organizations and communities.

The theme this year, “The Power of Partnerships”, celebrates the central role of health care supply chain professionals in supporting their organizations through incredible collaboration and maximizing resources by forming strategic alliances – the true embodiment of advancing health care through supply chain excellence.

Supply chain professionals ensure operational performance by collaborating and innovating with other professionals both internally and externally. During the past year, our Hospital’s Purchasing and Stores departments have amalgamated to create synergies and deliver strategic value to the organization. Please join us in thanking supply chain and procurement staff members.

DID YOU KNOW?

➡️ Stores has topped up 3,642,930 stock items year to date.

➡️ The Stores department orders, picks and delivers out of fou warehouses (Main, CRITICAL, PANDEMIC AND LOWERY’S) Two of these are on-site and two off-site.

➡️ There are over 1591 unique items that are in the onsite warehouses, with a total on hand dollar value of nearly $2 million between the 4 warehouses.

➡️ Purchasing currently manages 2181 active contracts to ensure compliance and to deliver best value for money.

➡️ Collaboratively between Stores and Purchasing a total of 16,884 purchase orders have been issued this year!