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Industry News Florida lawmakers consider PPE stockpile plan
“is not to restrict it to where it can only
tive diseases, cardiovascular issues, cancer,
In March, lawmakers in Florida were con-
be purchased, especially to other groups
or other conditions, or coming for outpa-
sidering setting up a stockpile of personal
that aren’t healthcare providers.” How-
tient surgery, interventional radiology,
protective equipment (PPE) that it would
ever, concerns remain that the change
or diagnostic imaging.
then make available for sale to healthcare
would be a burdensome task for the
practitioners during declared emergencies,
government while also making it more
according to CBS Miami.
difficult for smaller providers to access
Despite some concern from one
Yarborough said that the bill’s intent
needed equipment during a crisis.
lawmaker who cautioned the measure could turn a “government agency into an
whether they are being treated for diges-
GHX adds Steve Jackson as GM, Exchange Services to advance the clinically integrated supply chain Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX)
unanimously approved its version of the
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital opens new ambulatory care facility
proposal (HB 1353), sponsored by Rep.
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist
Exchange Services.
Clay Yarborough.
Hospital opened the Center for
Amazon,” the House Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee on Tuesday
To ensure the state has enough respirators, gloves, gowns and masks to cover the potential need, the Division of
(Louisville, CO) welcomed Steve Jackson in the role of General Manager, In this capacity, Jackson will focus on
Community Health, a new, six-story,
co-designing solutions with providers and
400,000-square-foot ambulatory care center.
suppliers that lower the total cost of care
The new facility, located at the
and improve patient outcomes. Leverag-
Emergency Management would be
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Method-
ing GHX’s extensive reach, Jackson will
required to complete an inventory of
ist Hospital campus on 6th Street between
be responsible for advancing the health-
equipment “held in reserve” and procure
7th Avenue and 8th Avenue in Park Slope,
care industry’s adoption of a clinically in-
additional equipment or arrange by con-
is the first major ambulatory care facility built
tegrated supply chain that enables greater
tract for it to be sold to practitioners or
in Brooklyn in 40 years, the hospital said.
precision and personalization of care.
their employers at cost.
The Center for Community Health of-
Jackson joins GHX from National
fers a wide range of ambulatory care ser-
Research Corporation (NRC), an industry-
Smith, D-Orlando, noted that the state
vices, including oncology, digestive, and
leading voice of customer platform lever-
Division of Emergency Management has
endoscopy services, as well as an infusion
aged by more than 75% of the top 200 U.S.
provided PPE free of charge during the
center, ambulatory surgery, diagnostic
health systems. As president of NRC, the
COVID-19 pandemic to healthcare prac-
imaging center, and more.
company’s customer NPS and employee
Committee member Carlos Guillermo
titioners and asked whether there would
Multidisciplinary teams of physicians
be a policy switch to require providers to
from Weill Cornell Medicine work together
its market capitalization grew from $330
pay for the equipment.
to consider each patient holistically,
million to more than $1.4 billion
56
satisfaction scores more than doubled and
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