Most Hospitals Come for the Savings. They Stay for the Support
Our team of community-hospital insiders is here to coach you through the conversion process and for ongoing support, if desired.
For example, CHC Supply Trust stepped up during the pandemic to fill a critical need for clients by vetting non-traditional suppliers who began producing PPE for the first time. Prequalifying and onboarding suppliers sped up response time when supply chain disruptions occurred. CHC Supply Trust was able to help several hospitals identify a variety of quality, new suppliers while holding the line on cost as much as possible. This level of service and follow through prompted several additional hospitals to shift their GPO services to CHC Supply Trust.
Switching supply chain providers sounds disruptive, but CHC Supply Trust can handle the entire transition for you, including department director meetings and clinician buy-in.
Benefits
Hospitals that opt for onboarding and ongoing support, receive several client perks including:
- Help. Access to on-call supply chain support
- Custom. Get the level of support you need
- Analysis. Assessment of opportunities for continual supply chain improvements
- Support. Get routine business reviews to determine opportunities for improved savings and performance.
How it Works
The conversion to CHC Supply Trust is called onboarding. This process, outlined below, includes collaborative meetings with hospital department directors, including clinicians, for input and buy-in.
- Cross reference hospital procurement data with GPO negotiated contracts.
- Complete analysis to identify opportunities for additional savings if items currently purchased are transitioned to those offered through CHC Supply Trust.
- CHC Supply Trust experts may spend one or two days onsite at the hospital to share expected savings because of conversion.
- In-depth department director meetings are held to review contracts and explore conversion. The purpose of these meetings is to determine the scope of items that will be converted to GPO contracted items and to communicate expected savings.
- At the conclusion of onboarding, the hospital initiates use of GPO contracted items and pricing.
Continued Support
Some hospitals need additional consulting and analysis resources to maximize the benefit of CHC Supply Trust. We work with hospital leadership to develop a custom support contract that includes:
- Assignment and follow-up by an account manager
- Onsite quality check completed post implementation with no additional cost
- Executive and board-ready spend analytics are provided during business reviews to continue to add value and maximize savings