ADVENTIST HEALTH SIMI VALLEY

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Adventist Health is committed to providing equal opportunity to all qualified diverse suppliers to compete and participate in the sourcing and procurement process of our healthcare organization. By creating an inclusive supply chain that recognizes and values diverse owned and small businesses, it strengthens the relationships with the communities we serve. This is consistent with Adventist Health’s Vision Statement: Compelled by our mission to live God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope, we will transform the health experience of our communities by improving physical, mental, and spiritual health; enhancing interactions; and making care more accessible and affordable.

2. Goals and Timetables

Please describe your hospital's short-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, for increasing procurement from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

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Please describe your hospital's long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, for increasing procurement from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

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3. Outreach and Communication

Please describe the methods in which the hospital encourages and seeks out both prime and subcontract suppliers from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers

Our supplier diversity program is designed to contribute to the economic health and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. It includes but is not limited to 1) implementing a collaborative supplier diversity program to meet Adventist Health’s existing and future vendor needs, 2) identifying systemwide contracting opportunities in which we ensure that diverse businesses could bid competitively while following the Adventist Health vendor process, and 3) identifying diverse businesses to bid on opportunities through the company. The Adventist Health supply chain team sources all goods and services for Adventist Health. Our sourcing department identifies qualified suppliers for bid opportunities and works with those suppliers to become successful supply chain partners. Vendors with products and services that are potentially suitable for Adventist Health are encouraged to complete a vendor profile to be considered for current and future projects.

Please describe the methods in which the hospital encourages its employees involved in procurement to seek out women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises to become potential suppliers

Adventist Health recognizes that commitment to a supplier diversity program promotes innovation through the introduction of new products and services; provides alternative to the GPO solutions to procure products and services; and drives competition between our current vendor community and new vendors. We encourage vendors that qualify as a diverse supplier to follow sourcing and procurement processes and register on our Adventist Health website. Once registered, the supplier is engaged in the official RFI/RFP process and becomes part of the sourcing event.

Please describe the methods in which the hospital conducts outreach and communication to women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

Adventist Health encourages diverse suppliers to visit our website and complete the new vendor registration process.

4. Support and Supplier Resolutions

Please describe the methods in which your hospital supports, partners with, or interacts with organizations and other entities in the procurement ecosystem that promote, certify, or contract with women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises

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Please describe the methods in which your hospital resolves any issues that may limit or impede an enterprise from becoming a supplier

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5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

Please describe the past implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission

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Please describe the planned implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission

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6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

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Website Link(s)

http://www.adventisthealth.org

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

1

Do you accept self-certification

1

7. 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)?

$0

Procurement means the purchase or lease of supplies, services, equipment, and capital expenditures related to buildings and fixed equipment during the previous calendar year. Procurement does not include items such as employee salaries and wages, fixed asset depreciation, amortization, or taxes.

8. Supplier Point of Contact

Enter the contact information for the individual that business enterprises who are interested in contracting with your facility can reach out to.

Name: Justin Freed

Enter the contact information for the individual of the diverse business outreach liaison of your hospital.

Name: --

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

9. Third Party Procurement

Third Party Procurement

None.

10. Other Relevant Information

Adventist Health System/West operates a shared service center that manages all procurement and supply chain activity. All diversity dollars and the total system spend have been reported on the ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM/WEST consolidated report.

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