The Driving Results Blog is a space for MedSpeed’s CEO, Jake Crampton, to share insights about a variety of healthcare topics. Occasionally, other members of the MedSpeed leadership team will use this space to discuss matters of particular importance to them.
The healthcare supply chain. MedSpeed has been a player in this space now for two decades and never has this topic been more on the minds of healthcare leaders, not to mention the citizenry at large, than today amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Unfortunately, at the pandemic’s outset, this was largely a story of shortages. Over time, however, this narrative has evolved more and more around examples of ingenuity and creativity in building new supply chain pathways to support the fight against this insidious threat.
We are now well into our fourth calendar month since the COVID-19 pandemic fully arrived in the United States. On the one hand, we have worked to adapt to a new normal. But, more so, we are weary of pandemic life and all that it has wrought. Making all this more difficult is the uncertainty of what lies ahead.
Despite this challenge, it is incumbent upon healthcare leaders, and other key policy makers, to look forward. This will help us take the steps back towards our old lives – albeit with certain likely permanent differences – but also prepare for the many potential eventualities that we may confront.
On this date – unbelievably 20 years ago – MedSpeed opened its doors. That day we ran four routes for one very brave customer that took a chance on us.
A great deal has changed from that first day. There are now nearly 3,000 MedSpeeders on our exceptional team. Our operations span the country. And, thankfully, our routes almost never run several hours late as they did that first day!
A great deal, however, is very much the same as it was then and has been throughout our history. The central commonality has been our mission to deliver health by connecting patients, providers and their communities. In fact, today, amidst these challenging times, this mission feels more vibrant and more vital than ever.
By Bonni Kaplan DeWoskin, Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships
MedSpeed is committed to our mission to deliver health to the communities we serve every day, including times like today. With this mission at the top of our minds, our teams across the country are going to work to support those on the healthcare front lines amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
In doing this we are of course focused on keeping our MedSpeeders safe and protected while they serve our healthcare customers during this population health crisis. At the same time, we are also thinking creatively about additional ways MedSpeed can help.
By Bonni Kaplan DeWoskin
Yesterday, I attended a live, virtual Think Tank hosted by fleet management company Donlen. Donlen was joined by MedSpeed’s Michael Tucker, senior fleet analyst, and Yogi Shivdasani, VP, NA supply chain at LKQ, to discuss steps that leading fleet managers and their organizations are taking to control contamination and spread of COVID-19 and keep drivers and their families safe.
MedSpeed has been serving, and a part of, the healthcare community for 20 years. We, like everyone in the industry, are immersed in the current population health crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
As our customers battle on the front lines of healthcare, we are doing everything we can to support them. Our operations teams and LSRs across the country are working in lock step with our customers to reposition protective equipment where it is needed most.
This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week. And as healthcare providers around the globe work to contain the coronavirus, it seems particularly important this year.
Patient Safety Awareness Week is recognized and promoted by some important organizations in healthcare: the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
This year, MedSpeed will celebrate our 20-year anniversary. During these past 20 years, we have had the opportunity to work with many outstanding healthcare organizations and incredible, forward-thinking leadership teams who are all working together to transform the industry into something better, smarter and more efficient.
One of those customer organizations is OhioHealth, a not-for-profit health system that operates 12 acute-care hospitals and more than 200 outpatient sites, hospice, home health, medical equipment and other health care services over a 47-county area.
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Transformation. Disruption. Words used to describe radical change.
These same terms have been bandied about to discuss what needs to happen to the American healthcare system; change that makes for a demanding proposition and one that will require continuous effort.
A recent Op/Ed in Modern Healthcare by Jonathan Manis, SVP and chief information officer for Irving, Texas-based Christus Health addresses healthcare’s incomplete progression toward transformation.
Patients are (and should be) the basis for everything we do in healthcare. But in some ways, that wasn’t always so.
Twenty-five years ago, John O’Malley created Patient Recognition Week—which falls in this first week in February. Healthcare worker O’Malley felt it was important to recognize the many patients that healthcare workers cared for. His goal was to ensure that patients were recognized as the single most important aspect of healthcare.
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