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Healthcare Supplier Performance and Risk Management

  • 19 Sep 2023
  • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Sheraton Suites Philadelphia Airport, 4101 Island Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19153
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Title: Healthcare Supplier Performance and Risk Management

Description: One of the key objectives within healthcare supply chain organizations is to construct, implement, and execute on supplier performance and risk management programs. These programs hold suppliers accountable and minimize risk in order to ensure high quality patient outcomes. Evolving these processes as the environment changes is important so that all risks are managed and objectives are met. This is especially true given the risks and changes that have occurred over the past 3 years in healthcare.

In this presentation, an experienced healthcare supply chain and operations executive will present on the new supply chain environment and how best to capture important objectives in you supplier performance and risk management programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • 1.      Review current supply chain environment and unique/new challenges it poses
  • 2.      Describe key elements in designing supplier performance and risk management programs
  • 3.      Understand how supplier performance and risk management programs benefit healthcare supply chain organizations
Speaker Information:
Thomas I. Runkle, MS, PhD
Vice President, Supply Chain
Cooper University Health Care

Thomas currently serves as the Vice President of Supply Chain for the Cooper University Health Care System in Camden, New Jersey. Prior to working at Cooper, Thomas was the Chief Operating Officer at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the design, development, and management of clinical and support service lines in the critical-care hospital setting. Extensive work in the development of operating standards and strategies has provided him with a proven professional respect in the improvement of business activities to meet long-term organizational initiatives and financial savings. Over the past four years, Thomas’ focus has been on the development of a new ideology for designing hospital supply chain programs which can better forecast and adapt to changes in worldwide supply streams while simultaneously maintaining clinical support for advancements in patient care practices.
Thomas began his career in the healthcare industry with the United States Air Force where he served in the Medical Squadron at Hickam Air Force Base in Oahu, Hawaii. After which he pursued his civilian career starting out as a clinical engineering technician at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. Over the following years, Thomas worked his way up to Associate Administrator at Hahnemann before transferring to the COO position at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
Thomas completed a bachelor’s degree in business from Peirce College, a master’s degree in science from Tiffin University and a doctorate degree of philosophy in public policy and administration from Walden University. His doctorate level research focused on the effectiveness of government agencies in a guardianship role through their implementation of legislation.  His published dissertation was a quantitative study of the relationship between state-implemented penalty enhancement laws and the reporting habits of nurses of patient assaults occurring in emergency departments at trauma centers in the Mid-Atlantic Region.




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