Hospital Supplier Diversity Report

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the nation's second largest municipal health system. Through an integrated system of four hospitals, 26 local health centers supplemented by a network of community partner clinics, DHS is committed to ensuring that business enterprises encompassing and reflecting the rich and diverse populations that comprise Los Angeles County (LAC), which includes minority, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and disabled veteran business enterprises have full and equal access to all DHS procurement and contracting opportunities.

2. Supplier Point of Contact, Outreach and Communication

Supplier Point of Contact

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

Outreach and Communication

How does your hospital encourage and seek out minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers?

LAC Board of Supervisors Policy 5.010 established the LAC Community Business Enterprise (CBE) Program, which includes Minority Business Enterprises (MBE), Women Business Enterprises (WBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning-Owned Business Enterprises (LGBTQQ), and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE); and requires that CBEs enjoy full and equal access to all the County's procurement and contracting activities. The CBE Program, which is overseen by LAC Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), establishes Countywide participation goals and actively encourages CBE business owners to capitalize on procurement and contracting opportunities with LAC. DHS participates in LAC Contracting Connections vendor fairs to make connections with CBEs and inform them about procurement and contracting opportunities.

How does your hospital encourage its employees involved in procurement to seek out minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers?

DHS encourages eligible vendors to enroll in the LAC CBE Program, which provides visibility to procurement and contracting staff for future outreach/notifications for procurement opportunities. Additionally, DHS encourages procurement and contracting staff to reach out to and notify CBEs, whenever possible.

How does your hospital conduct outreach and communication to minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises?

LAC Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) administers numerous outreach events attended by diversity suppliers and representatives from County Departments, including DHS, to disseminate knowledge of LAC's CBE Program and make connections for future procurement opportunities.

3. Diverse Supplier Spending

Diverse Procurement Spending by Minority

For the reporting period, enter the dollar amounts procured by your hospital from those business enterprises that employ the majority of their workforce in California.

Diverse Procurement Spending by Other

For the reporting period, enter the dollar amounts procured by your hospital from those business enterprises that employ the majority of their workforce in California.

What is your hospital's total procurement (including diverse and non-diverse suppliers)?

$49,483,038.00

4. Certifications and Third Party Procurement

Certifications

How does your hospital support organizations that promote or certify minority, women, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises?

LAC Department of Health Services (DHS) is committed to ensuring that business enterprises have full and equal access to all DHS procurement and contracting opportunities.

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

Yes

Do you accept self-certification?

No

5. Other Relevant Information

.The Tier 1 Diverse Procurement Spend in this report includes certified, self-certified, and suppliers identified as diverse. Although self-certified suppliers were included in the Diverse Procurement Spend on this report, we answered "No" to the question "Do you accept self-certification?" because we do not accept self-certification for LAC tracking/monitoring purposes. This report does not include capital project spend in the "hospital's total procurement" (and associated Tier 1 Diverse Procurement Spend) due to data complexities, but we're working to include this in future reports. Similarly, due to complexities in isolating data, we couldn't separate sales taxes from some portions of the "hospital's total procurement" (and associated Tier 1 Diverse Procurement Spend), but we're exploring ways to remove this in future reports. Tier 2 Diverse Procurement Spend data was not available for this report, however, we anticipate providing it in on future reports. While there is also some procurement spend for this hospital made through/at the hospital system level, it wasn't reported to HCAI (at the system level) as there is not a system level HCAI Hospital ID. We're working on attributing this spend to the hospital for future reports. LAC DHS will collaborate with various County departments, including the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), to enhance reporting mechanisms for future reports.