Hospital Supplier Diversity Reporting Program

Overview#

Health and Safety Code Section 1339.85-1339.87 requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) to develop and administer a Hospital Supplier Diversity Reporting Program to collect and post hospital supplier diversity plans explaining the hospital’s supplier diversity statement and procurement efforts regarding certified minority, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and disabled veteran business enterprises.

Hospitals, with operating expenses over a specified amount, are required to annually submit a plan to HCAI on their minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprise procurement efforts. HCAI is required to maintain a link on the HCAI website that provides access to the content of hospital supplier diversity plans to the public. All submitted hospitals and system/regional network plans can be downloaded from CalHHS Open Data Portal.

Individual Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans: Hospitals licensed under subdivision (a), (b), or (f) of Health and Safety Code section 1250, with operating expenses of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or more, and each licensed hospital with operating expenses of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) or more that is part of a hospital system or regional network, shall submit a Hospital Supplier Diversity plan.

System/Regional-Level Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans: Two or more hospitals owned, sponsored, or managed by the same organization may submit a System/Regional-Level Hospital Supplier Diversity Plan if there are suppliers that provide services or goods to all hospitals within the hospital system or regional network.

Spend disclaimer: If $0 were spent on procurement for a category, hospitals were instructed to report $0. If the procurement data is not readily accessible, hospitals were instructed to leave the category blank. In addition, $0 or blank may be reported due to procurement data reported on hospital system/regional network’s plan when the hospital’s procurement was performed at the hospital system/regional network level.

Laws and Regulations#

• Health and Safety Code 1339.85-1339.87
• California Code of Regulations §95000-95014

Reporting Resources #

• 2024 List of Required Hospitals for Hospital Supplier Diversity Submission (coming soon!)
• Find the HCAI ID number by clicking on facility finders and searching hospital profile.
• Hospital Supplier Diversity Fact Sheet (coming soon!)
• Hospital Supplier Diversity FAQ’s (coming soon!)
• Manual(s)/Guide(s):
  • Hospital Disclosure Compliance (HDC) System and Hospital Supplier Diversity Plan Resource Manual.
• Templates:
  • Hospital Supplier Diversity Blank Individual Hospital Template (PDF)
  • Hospital Supplier Diversity Blank System/Regional Network Template (PDF)
  • Individual Hospital Supplier Diversity Plan Upload Template (Excel) (coming soon!)
  • Hospital System/Regional-Level Hospital Supplier Diversity Plan Upload Template (Excel) (coming soon!)

Hospital Contacts for Diverse Business Enterprises#

Hospital Contacts for Diverse Business Enterprises are available upon request. Please send request via email to supplier.diversity@hcai.ca.gov.

Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans and Data Products#

All previously submitted Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans and HCAI’s data summary can be accessed using the links below. The information contained in the hospital’s plans on minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises is provided for informational purposes only.

All Previously Submitted Plans#

All previously submitted Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans are available on our Open Data Portal (ODP). You will find datasets for all years beginning with 2020 reporting year.

• Open Data Portal (ODP)

2023 Reporting Year#

• 2023 Supplier Diversity Plans Data Summary
• 2023 Supplier Diversity Plans web visualization page.

2022 Reporting year#

• 2022 Supplier Diversity Data Summary.
• 2022 Supplier Diversity Plans.

2021 Reporting Year#

• 2021 Supplier Diversity Data Summary
• 2021 Supplier Diversity Reports

2020 Reporting Year#

• 2020 Supplier Diversity Reports
• 2020 Supplier Diversity Data Summary

Pivot Table#

The Supplier Diversity Reporting Pivot table was created to provide the public and stakeholders with a clear, interactive view of California’s Hospitals procurement data over the last three reporting periods (2021-2023). The data is illustrated through charts and graphs can be broken down by specific categories and filters, allowing for a more comprehensive view of California’s Hospitals.

• Hospital Supplier Diversity Reporting Program Pivot Table.

Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission (HSDC)#

As required by Health and Safety Code Section 1339.88, HCAI is responsible for convening a hospital supplier diversity commission comprised of the public and health care, diversity, and procurement stakeholders to advise HCAI and the hospital industry on best methods to increase procurement with diverse suppliers within the hospital industry and to promote and provide outreach to hospitals that are actively engaged in supplier diversity issues.

HSDC First Year Recommendations Report#

The commission has been meeting regularly since March 2021 and during its meetings has reviewed baseline data from the first year Hospital Supplier Diversity Reports, heard from hospitals with more mature supplier diversity programs on some best practices in the hospital industry, and learned more about hospital procurement and supplier diversity. This report documents the 26 first-year recommendations developed by the Commission through discussion and public comments.

The HSDC developed these recommendations with the intention of promoting the use of diverse suppliers as well as encouraging healthy competition in health care and reflecting the position of an active role in government. The recommendations were finalized during a series of public meetings held between May 2022 and September 2022. This report also provides a summary of key items of discussion that the Commission raised during the development of the recommendations and a summary of the process undertaken to finalize the recommendations.

These 26 first-year recommendations include

• 12 recommendations for the hospital industry
• 7 recommendations for the HCAI director
• 7 recommendations for other relevant entities within the hospital procurement ecosystem including Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO), manufacturers and distributors, and business associations and chambers.