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AM23-ST-09-O - AM23-ST-09-O: Lean is the Enemy of Preparedness: Analysis of Contribution of Supply Chain Shortages Affecting Blood Supply for Transfusion Medicine (Enduring)
We have experienced a record number of supply chain failures adversely affecting the national blood supply, including whole blood collection bags, apheresis collection kits, and solutions like calcium chloride. Clearly, the lack of capacity to accommodate supply chain interruptions reflects a lack of reserve inventories, which is exactly what "Lean" has driven out. Health care, unlike new car manufacturers, must always be available, and the current economic system provides a frank disincentive to having reserve supplies. Additional challenges to maintaining robust inventories include staffing and access to a more diverse donor base. Dr. John Hick, a national expert in health care preparedness, will discuss planning for a wide variety of public health challenges and stress challenges to the supply chain that we can and cannot control. He helped create a statewide system of preparedness cards at the Minnesota Department of health as part of pandemic flu planning. William (Bill) Block of BCA, a group purchasing organization, will discuss specific examples of shortages within transfusion medicine.
Learning Objectives:
Appraise the role of lean principles in precipitating the current crisis in essential components for collection, testing and processing blood components.
Explain the role of prospective planning for various public health emergencies in having capacity to respond to supply chain challenges.
Explore the role of federal government in creating economic incentives for blood inventories, both product and essential supplies
Moderator(s):
Jed
B. Gorlin,
MD, MBA,
VP and Medical Director,
Memorial Blood Centers
John
Hick,
MD,
Director Emergency Preparedness,
HCMC
Disclosures
William Block:
No financial relationships to disclose
Jed Gorlin, MD, MBA:
No financial relationships to disclose
John Hick, MD:
No financial relationships to disclose
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
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AM23-ST-09-O: Lean is the Enemy of Preparedness: Analysis of Contribution of Supply Chain Shortages Affecting Blood Supply for Transfusion Medicine (Enduring) Evaluation