Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Casa Colina strives to form strong bonds with our community and focuses on doing what is right for our patients, employees, community and the hospital. Casa Colina searches for suppliers who can help us deliver exceptional services to our patients and ensure our overall success. Casa Colina believes that excellence in supplier diversity can result in excellence in supply chain management, leading to patient, employee and physician satisfaction. An inclusive supplier base provides access to a wide range of capabilities and perspectives that can enhance economic opportunity and growth for all.

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

Casa Colina believes that excellence in supplier diversity can result in excellence in supply chain management, leading to patient, employee and physician satisfaction. An inclusive supplier base provides access to a wide range of capabilities and perspectives that can enhance economic opportunity and growth for all. Short term goals include maintaining a comprehensive list of local diverse suppliers and encouraging them to submit bid proposals for needed goods and services.

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

Casa Colina believes that excellence in supplier diversity can result in excellence in supply chain management, leading to patient, employee and physician satisfaction. An inclusive supplier base provides access to a wide range of capabilities and perspectives that can enhance economic opportunity and growth for all. Long term goals include ensuring local diverse suppliers provide an annual product and pricing update that we can use to source supplies.

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

Casa Colina believes in equal opportunity and fair competition. The majority of our purchases occur through a healthcare group purchasing organization (GPO) which is to ensure our fiscal responsibility to obtain the best quality supplies at the best price. However, for any major purchases outside of the GPO, Casa Colina uses a 3 bid process and welcome any qualified bidder to bid on our needed good or service.

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

Casa Colina believes in equal opportunity and fair competition. As we seek vendors for any good or service, we strive to identify the best quality product/service at the lowest cost. If all factors are equal, we will seek the product/services from the most local vendor.

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

Casa Colina has a robust communication and marketing platform. Our website at: http://www.casacolina.org provides users with unlimited information regarding our organization and services offered. We also use print mediums in the form of newspaper and magazine articles and advertisements. In addition, Casa Colina holds monthly healthcare educational forums for which all community members are welcome.

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

Casa Colina is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and customer. We strive to keep our patients, employees, physicians and community in mind with all decisions. Casa Colina encourages and helps diversity-owned businesses to thrive whenever we can. Our diversity, equity and inclusion program will only continue to strengthen and grow as we continue to educate within our organization and community.

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

Casa Colina is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and customer. We strive to keep our patients, employees, physicians and community in mind with all decisions. Casa Colina encourages and helps diversity-owned businesses to thrive whenever we can. Our diversity, equity and inclusion program will only continue to strengthen and grow as we continue to educate within our organization and community.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Casa Colina is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and customer. We strive to keep our patients, employees, physicians and community in mind with all decisions. Casa Colina encourages and helps diversity-owned businesses to thrive whenever we can. Our diversity, equity and inclusion program will only continue to strengthen and grow as we continue to educate within our organization and community.

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

Casa Colina is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and customer. We strive to keep our patients, employees, physicians and community in mind with all decisions. Casa Colina encourages and helps diversity-owned businesses to thrive whenever we can. Our diversity, equity and inclusion program will only continue to strengthen and grow as we continue to educate within our organization and community.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Casa Colina strives to form strong bonds with our community and focuses on doing what is right for our patients, employees, community and the hospital. Casa Colina searches for suppliers who can help us deliver exceptional services to our patients and ensure our overall success. Casa Colina believes that excellence in supplier diversity can result in excellence in supply chain management, leading to patient, employee and physician satisfaction. An inclusive supplier base provides access to a wide range of capabilities and perspectives that can enhance economic opportunity and growth for all.

Website Link(s)

http://www.casacolina.org

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.

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)?

$24,216,733

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: David Morony

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

Name: Cassandra Bennett

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

• Vizient
• http://www.vizientinc.com

10. Other Relevant Information

Casa Colina is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and customer. We strive to keep our patients, employees, physicians and community in mind with all decisions. Casa Colina encourages and helps diversity-owned businesses to thrive whenever we can. Our diversity, equity and inclusion program will only continue to strengthen and grow as we continue to educate within our organization and community. The amount of procurement dollars on the attached tables are most likely under-reporting all diversity spend for the hospital. While our GPO and our hospital ask our vendors if they classify themselves into one of the diversity categories, it is at the discretion of the vendor to share that information.

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