Healthcare Supply Chain...the ‘new’ normal...Supply Chain resiliency tactics

Much has been made about the “new normal” and life post-pandemic for supply chains - especially the healthcare supply chain. It may be too early to know where the pandemic will provide a temporary boost, a displacement, a catalyst, or innovative trajectory to various business trends. It is generally agreed that companies need to make their supply chains more resilient - but how? In this online presentation, the Chief Supply Chain Officer for Main Line Health will discuss the pandemic’s effects on the healthcare supply chain and provide insights into specific tools and tactics that can be used to “future-proof” the supply chain.

Learning Objectives:

• Review the current state of the healthcare supply chain post pandemic.
• Discuss tactics that can be utilized to move the supply chain forward in this ‘new’ normal.
• Evaluate specific tools that can be leveraged to set up your organization for future success.

Christine Torres is the System Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Biomedical Engineering/Chief Supply Chain Officer for the Main Line Health System, an Integrated Delivery Network consisting of four tertiary care hospitals, one rehabilitation hospital, Physician practices and multiple outpatient centers. In this role she provides corporate oversight by facilitating all contracting, logistics and medical equipment management associated with the supply chain needs of these healthcare institutions. Chris draws from her 42 years of healthcare business knowledge, clinical expertise, established relationships and teaching abilities to provide this organization with vision, strategy and direction in navigating the difficult challenges hospitals face today in the areas of patient safety, supply cost reduction, new technology demand, bending the Medicare cost curve and a host of other economic and resource demands.

Chris is a member of the Main Line Health Leadership Faculty and provides training to the Management Team of the organization utilizing curriculums related to leadership development. Chris is certified in lean 6 sigma work and employs these strategies and techniques across the continuum of process improvement initiatives for the organization.

Chris acts as a resource for many of the safety initiatives across the Health System. She provides guidance and support to these initiatives by focusing on the IOM STEEEP principles to provide a safer environment for our Patients and Staff.

Chris provides strategic direction to the Main Line Health organization by coordinating a system approach to managing efforts related to clinical resource management processes that are leveraged in the evaluation of new technologies, services and supplies for the organization.