BALLARD REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
1. Policy Statement
Supplier Diversity Policy Statement
Ballard Rehabilitation Hospital (BRH) seeks to engage in the best, most efficient ad diverse suppliers who have patient safety and healthcare affordability as their top priority. We work with a group purchasing company that aligns with the same values. When it comes to supplies and maintaining operational efficiency, our goal is to maintain the objective of a balance between patient safety, affordability of healthcare and overall diversity (in staff, vendors, ownership of contracted business with an equitable processes) in mind.
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
Health Purchasing Group (HPG) is our 3rd party procurement group and they remain open to all suppliers who can provide safe quality and affordable patient care products.
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
Health Purchasing Group (HPG) is our 3rd party procurement group and they remain open to all suppliers who can provide safe quality and affordable patient care products.
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
We participate with a purchasing group that remains open to all with a goal of efficient/cost effective purchasing along side of patient safety and diverse network of options to its participants.
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
As above via HPG processes
Please describe the methods in which the hospital conducts outreach and communication to women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises
As above via HPG processes
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
As above via HPG processes
Please describe the methods in which your hospital resolves any issues that may limit or impede an enterprise from becoming a supplier
As above via HPG processes
5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations
Please describe the past implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission
We participate with a purchasing group that remains open to all with a goal of efficient/cost effective purchasing along side of patient safety and diverse network of options to its participants.
Please describe the planned implementation of relevant recommendations made by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission
We participate with a purchasing group that remains open to all with a goal of efficient/cost effective purchasing along side of patient safety and diverse network of options to its participants.
6. Procurement Process and Certification
Please describe your hospital's procurement process
We participate with a purchasing group that remains open to all with a goal of efficient/cost effective purchasing along side of patient safety and diverse network of options to its participants.
Website Link(s)
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Do you require suppliers to be certified?
No
Do you accept self-certification
No
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.
| Business Ownership | Tier 1 Procurement | Tier 2 Procurement | Total Procurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| African American | -- | -- | -- |
| Hispanic American | -- | -- | -- |
| Native American | -- | -- | -- |
| Asian Pacific | -- | -- | -- |
| Unknown Minority | -- | -- | -- |
| Total | -- | -- | -- |
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.
| Business Ownership | Tier 1 Procurement | Tier 2 Procurement | Total Procurement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minority* | -- | -- | -- |
| Women | -- | -- | -- |
| LGBT | -- | -- | -- |
| Disabled Veteran | -- | -- | -- |
| Less Duplicate Amount (-) | --- | --- | --- |
| Combined Total | -- | -- | -- |
*Total from the Diverse Procurement Spending by Minority table.
What is your hospital's total procurement (including diverse and non-diverse suppliers)?
$3,752,160
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: Jeanette Williams
Enter the contact information for the individual of the diverse business outreach liaison of your hospital.
Name: Jeanette Williams
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
- Health Trust
- healthtrustpg.com
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