Good afternoon, National Accounts Executives!
As COVID-19 strains medical professionals on the front lines, our supplier community must provide the enabling equipment, products & services and support required to serve this patient population.
While hospitals operate in a world of quality, safety & infection prevention each day, our success in impacting the spread of communicable diseases is largely dependent on a coordinated response.
After many years of collaborating to address and train for disasters and never events, the relationships between suppliers, IDN’s, hospitals, GPO’s, distributors, and healthcare leaders & practitioners from the communities they serve, are strong and ready for the challenge.
The coronavirus is touching all of us to varying degrees on both personal and professional fronts, and travel bans are forcing us to retreat on inspiring interpersonal interactions with customers and business partners.
During this time of uncertainty and trepidation, I encourage all of us to take inventory of our own unique approach to business and ensure that we are acting as authentic, trusted advisors to our industry peers, colleagues and providers.
Please take this opportunity to focus on listening with sincerity and compassion, and responding with an empathetic voice. As leaders and role models in our healthcare industry, it is important for us to genuinely ‘stay in the moment’ for those who need us most during this difficult time.
Throughout this period of disruption, know that ANAE is well-positioned to support its members and together, we will emerge from this pandemic stronger than ever before.
Thank you for your continued support and collaboration in the interest of healthcare transformation and improvement.
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Be well,
Scott M. Pecore
President, ANAE
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Premier: Statement on Presidential Executive Order making general use respirators available
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"The Executive Order creates opportunity for the United States to increase domestic manufacturing quickly to protect the public in light of the global pandemic. Already, Premier has been working with domestic manufacturers to expand production capacity for respirators, such as N95 masks. In addition, we have also been in discussions with non-healthcare, ancillary manufacturers to convert their facilities and accommodate the increased demand. The Executive Order will help expedite our nation’s ability to pursue alternatives and augment U.S. supply.
"In order to truly operationalize today’s Executive Order
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Trump signs $8.3 billion coronavirus package
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President Trump on Friday signed a bill providing $8.3 billion in emergency funding to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
The bill provides $7.76 billion to federal, state and local agencies to combat the coronavirus and authorizes an additional $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions...
The measure includes $2.2 billion for health agencies to prepare for and prevent the spread of the virus in the United States, as well as more than $3 billion for vaccine research. The figure substantially exceeds the $2.5 billion in emergency funding that the White House initially proposed last week
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Vidant Health announces 191 layoffs, citing budget shortfall
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Vidant Health is laying off nearly 200 workers across eastern North Carolina to address a budget shortfall, the health system's CEO said Monday.
Dr. Michael Waldrum said in an email that the first steps to eliminate the $18 million budget shortfall during the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 was “to reduce costs, implement operational efficiencies and to discontinue recruitment and hiring for certain non-patient care positions," news sources reported.
The health system reported an $18 million budget shortfall during the first quarter of fiscal year 2020
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Mourning the loss of Tim Dungey
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Tim Dungey, VP of health systems for McKesson Medical-Surgical, passed away on Feb. 22 as a result of cancer. He was 61.
Dungey joined McKesson in September 1987, and held executive positions in its extended care, pharmaceutical and acute care businesses. He served as VP, West, for Owens & Minor after O&M acquired McKesson’s acute care business in October 2006. In October 2008, he rejoined McKesson, and was named VP of health systems in September 2012.
“I have known Tim for close to 30 years,” said Gary Keeler, president of sales and marketing for McKesson Medical-Surgical. “We first met when he was at Red Line, which is now McKesson’s Extended Care business. We spent most of our time together talking about strategy and large accounts. I will always remember Tim as a creative and competitive friend who loved his kids and loved watching them grow in sports and personally.”
“We lost an exceptional leader, and an even better person,” said E.V. Clarke, managing partner, EV3 Solutions, and a long-time distribution executive. “Tim had a profound influence on so many of us who worked with him at Red Line, McKesson and Owens & Minor.
A high school and college athlete, Dungey coached all three of his children’s teams in basketball from elementary school through junior high school. He was an active leader in both youth and high school football programs for the Lakeridge community in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he lived most of his adult life.
In lieu of flowers, send donations to the Tim Dungey Scholarship Fund. Checks payable to Lakeridge High School (please reference Tim Dungey Donation) may be sent to 1235 Overlook Drive, Lake Oswego, OR 97034, or credit cards are accepted by calling 503-534-2319.
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Amazon bans 10,000 users for price gouging
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Amazon has banned 10,000 users for price gouging and removed 1million products for making spurious health claims amid the global
coronavirus
outbreak.
Unscrupulous online traders have tried to cash in on the health emergency as stocks of hand sanitizer and face masks have run low in stores amid panic-buying.
Two-packs of Purrell hand sanitizer, which typically sell for $12, were marked up at $119.99 on Amazon this week as people tried to protect themselves from the virus
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Monday Sector Leaders: Healthcare, Services
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In afternoon trading on Monday, Healthcare stocks were the best performing sector, losing just 6.5%.
Within that group, AmerisourceBergen Corp. (Symbol: ABC) and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. (Symbol: DGX) were two large stocks leading the way, showing a loss of 1.4% and 2.1%, respectively.
Among
healthcare ETFs
, one ETF following the sector was the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (Symbol: XLV),
which was down 5.6% on the day, and down 9.99% year-to-date.
AmerisourceBergen Corp., meanwhile, was up 0.01% year-to-date, and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. was up 3.23% year-to-date. Combined, ABC and DGX make up approximately 0.7% of the underlying holdings of XLV...
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Cleveland Clinic named No. 2 Hospital in the World by Newsweek
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Newsweek
has ranked Cleveland Clinic the No. 2 hospital in the world, as part of its World’s Best Hospitals 2020 analysis. In the U.S., Cleveland Clinic again earned the No. 2 ranking, while four other Cleveland Clinic hospitals also were listed among the best hospitals nationwide:
- Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Florida-Weston
- Cleveland Clinic Akron General
- Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital
In Ohio, Newsweek ranked Cleveland Clinic No. 1 and Fairview Hospital No. 3. In Florida, Cleveland Clinic Florida-Weston was ranked…
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Your Colleagues Don’t Read Anything You Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That.
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For over a decade, I taught college students how to communicate in professional settings. Every class began with a single, all-consuming thesis: “Nobody will ever want to read anything you write at work. Period.”
That’s a harsh and, perhaps, disheartening warning. Particularly for bright-eyed, soon-to-be employees about to make their dent in the universe.
The real pain of writing at work only to have our words disappear into the ether — the wasteland of no response — is more than feeling small and disrespected; it’s the professional consequences that compound them.
Beneath these brutal realities, getting busy co-workers and bosses to take action means changing eight things about the way we communicate
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Trinity Health names new CEO of Mount Carmel Health System
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Trinity Health named Lorraine Lutton as president and CEO of Mount Carmel Health System (Columbus, OH), effective April 6. Since 2016, Lutton has been president and CEO of Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH) (Charleston, SC), where she led transformations in clinical quality, culture, governance and financial strength.
She replaces Mike Englehart, who has served as interim CEO at Mount Carmel since July 2019. Englehart will return to his role as SVP for medical groups and ambulatory strategy for Trinity Health nationally
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John Pritchard
Publisher of National Accounts Weekly
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