The outbound supply chain of any Home Medical Equipment (HME) or Durable Medical Equipment (DME) provider is an extremely well-oiled machine. The optimization for sales / delivery / patient setup and initial billing has been implemented. However, the operational story tends to break down when we consider the return journey. Reverse logistics retrieving, inspecting/sanitizing, and…
Healthcare systems throughout the country are grappling with a less than obvious operational threat one that seldom makes an appearance on an income statement as a line item: clinical burnout. Although executive teams regularly review overtime utilization, agency spend and open FTE requisitions, the cost of nurse burnout goes well beyond direct labor costs. This…
The summer months bring an essential and disruptive variable that can endanger patient care, spoil costly diagnostic samples and threaten a laboratory’s fiscal health: extreme heat in the intricate ecosystem of healthcare logistics. As ambient temperatures regularly reach over 90°F (32°C), the logistics margin for error declines to zero. Bee-wax: Hot tarmac, failed vehicle AC…
