Cardinal Health’s U.S. medical products distribution business has been awarded a diamond-level rating from the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC), a non-profit trade association that works to create “a more transparent and resilient supply chain.”
In an April 3 news announcement, Cardinal Health said it has earned the HIRC Resiliency Partner badge “for high achievements in supply chain resiliency maturity.”
“A health-care industry benchmark, HIRC’s Resiliency Badge program provides a third-party, evidence-based assessment to evaluate resiliency across multiple domains,” the announcement continued. “The diamond level – and highest award possible – indicates outperforming scores for Cardinal Health’s medical products distribution business in key areas vital to a resilient supply chain.”
Winning the Resiliency Badge required Cardinal Health to undergo “an in-depth, third party-validated assessment of its supply chain resiliency,” the company said. “The business achieved outperforming scores in a variety of categories. A total of eight management domains were evaluated using a robust scoring rubric, including demand planning; inventory management; logistics; supply chain visibility; supplier management; risk management and contingency planning; operational health; [and] market conditions.”
“Resilient supply chains within medical product distribution are the backbone of quality patient care, which is why the depth and rigor of the Resiliency Badge assessment is so critical,” said Jesse Schafer, HIRC executive director, in the announcement. “Cardinal Health has exceeded a very high bar established by HIRC’s cohort of 350 domestic healthcare leaders across the provider-supplier spectrum. HIRC is pleased to celebrate Cardinal Health’s achievement of diamond level — proof of its commitment to and capabilities in resiliency.”
HIRC member providers include City of Hope, Cleveland Clinic, DukeHealth, GE Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Stanford Health Care, University of Michigan Health System, and Vanderbilt Health.