EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Eisenhower Health Supplier Diversity Mission Statement Eisenhower Health is fully committed to providing equal opportunity to all qualified diverse suppliers to compete and participate in the sourcing and procurement process. We believe that creating an inclusive supply chain that values diverse owned and small businesses is not only good for the community, it’s good for our business. Eisenhower Health is an owner/member of the Premier GPO who assists with contracting for a large portion of our procurement portfolio. Their Diversity Policy Statement is noted below. If you would like information on becoming an approved vendor for Eisenhower Health, you can contact us via our website at http://www.emc.org or email Joanne Singh, Director of Materials Management at jsingh@eisenhowerhealth.org. Premier, one of the largest group purchasing organizations in the country, is committed to the growth and success of minority-, women-, veteran-owned and small businesses through its Supplier Diversity Strategies. We are committed to delivering value and optimizing our competitive advantage for the benefit of our members. Our contracted suppliers play a critical role in differentiating the Premier healthcare alliance and meeting the needs of our broad membership base. Integrating and leveraging supplier diversity into the way we do business helps us maximize competitiveness and creates real opportunities for more minority-, woman-, veteran-owned and small businesses to grow their market share with our members. By diversifying the supply chain composition with small and diverse supplier options, we believe we are providing cost-cutting solutions, innovation and economic vitality for our nonprofit hospitals and the communities they serve. The momentum is growing. At Premier, we believe in setting quantifiable goals to demonstrate the success we drive through having diverse and small businesses on our contract portfolio. Premier is intent on nurturing, maintaining and expanding diverse suppliers in the supply chain. We continue to offer our members a diverse supplier portfolio that helps them meet their supplier diversity expenditure requirements and requests for more contracting opportunities. Our flexible sourcing strategies also allow Premier to proactively employ different approaches to sustain and add to our current base of diverse suppliers. In 2008, Premier introduced Sourcing Education and Enrichment for Diverse and Small Suppliers (SEEDS™), a program aimed at increasing the number of small, diverse and regional companies doing business with members of the Premier alliance. Further, we encourage our contracted suppliers to support and procure from small and diverse suppliers and we have witnessed the fruitful results these collaborations can produce. Premier is committed to the richness supplier diversity invites into the supply chain. We look forward to continuing to work with our contracted suppliers and members to make our Supplier Diversity initiative a key part of the way we do business.

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

Short term goals - Work with Premier Diversity officer on an annual basis to identify Diversity vendors in their system to review for opportunities. Educate IT, Biomed, Facilities, and EVS leaders regarding AB1392 as these departments have potential for the most local reportable diversity spend. Work with construction contractor for local spend with diversity.

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

Long term goals Expand outreach to local Diversity suppliers by working with local Chamber of Commerce and small business advocates in the community. They do not currently categorize members by diversity class but are looking into it for the future. Implement Workday self service portal for vendors to encourage diversity supplier registration to make purchases through them easier as they will already be loaded and approved.

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 recently reached out to local chambers of commerce to identify local diverse businesses. While they don't currently categorize members by diversity class, several are looking to do so in the future and we will continue to reach out to them. We are working with our local construction contractor to identify diversity sub contractors.

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

We provide annual training to the purchasing staff on the Supplier Diversity program.

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

We are looking to implement the Workday self service portal in the future to encourage supplier registration.

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

We partner with our GPO Premier on our Diversity supplier program.

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

We are looking to implement the Workday self service portal for vendors in the future, which will streamline vendor on boarding.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Executive leadership has assigned the Materials Management department the responsibility to identify and track spend with diverse business enterprises. Executive leadership has approved a link on the hospital web page to inform diverse suppliers of the hospital diversity policy which includes contact information for the diversity supplier contact.

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

Future plans to implement the Workday self service registration portal for vendors.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

As the Coachella Valley’s only Not for Profit Hospital, Eisenhower Medical Centers Purchasing strategy is to utilize our GPO’s contracting portfolios for the majority of our supplies and services. We are able to access these contracts by price activation in the Premier GPO portal. Best GPO pricing is obtained by high market share commitment by contract/category. A major portion of healthcare procurement spend is with large medical device manufacturers. We therefore believe our largest opportunity to improve diversity supplier spend is with local vendors and service providers. When adding new suppliers to our MMIS system, we have the capability to flag them as a diversity supplier. We can then pull in spend by these specific diversity vendors for reporting purposes.

Website Link(s)

http://www.eisenhowerhealth.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)?

$320,263,332

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: Joanne Singh

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

Name: Joanne Singh

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

• Premier Inc
• http://www.premierinc.com

10. Other Relevant Information

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