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

Continue to work with our GPO Premier to identify Diversity Suppliers and product categories. Reinforce to IT, Biomed, Facilities, and EVS leaders the importance of AB1392 as these departments have potential for the most local reportable diversity spend.

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

Continue to check with local Chamber of Commerce and small business advocates in the community to identify Diversity suppliers. Several local chamber offices noted they do not currently categorize members based on diversity classification but are looking to provide this information in the future. Still looking to implement Workday Self Service 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

Communication to leaders in departments that use a large volume of local suppliers and service providers of the State of California Hospital Diversity initiative.

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

Staff are updated on an annual basis regarding Supplier Diversity program and opportunity.

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 to provide onboarding information and encourage diversity vendor 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

As the only Not for Profit hospital in our service area, we network with community organizations on a regular basis and partner with local vendors to provide products and services.

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

Issues would be reviewed by the Director of Materials management and presented to EMC leadership team for input and resolution.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

There have been no recommendations received by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission.

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

There have been no recommendations received by the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

A large portion of our organization procurement comes through our GPO Premier negotiated contracts.

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)?

$372,502,705

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
• http://WWW.PREMIERINC.ORG

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