GEORGE L. MEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The MMHS Procurement policy strives to ensure that we achieve the maximum value for each dollar spent by purchasing products and services from responsive suppliers and consultants at the lowest reasonable cost. Procurement manages the bidding process to ensure compliance with policies. MMHS is committed to ensuring fair consideration of all suppliers and consultants in its day-to-day purchase of goods and services and recognizes that working with a wide range of suppliers and consultants provides an open, competitive, and diverse business environment. It is the policy of MMHS to include minorities, women, persons with a disability (collectively known as MWBE firms), and the LGBTQ community in the procurement process and to objectively evaluate all qualified businesses regardless of race, gender, or handicap, or gender orientation.

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

Being a small hospital without a lot of buying power we purchase almost all our supplies from distributors who are aware of the goals of California and work with us in trying to procure from diverse companies. We look into solicitations from companies that contact us and let us know if they are certified as a diversity based company.

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

Due to our limited reach we rely heavily on our partners and the programs they have in place to meet the requirements. Both our GPO Vizient and main distributor Medline continue to improve and work on developing partnerships with diverse companies and keeping us up to date on those goals and giving us any info that is helpful towards creating partnerships with diverse companies.

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 have added the Procurement Diversity Policy for Vendors Doing Business with Mee Memorial to our website. We also rely on our main distributor and GPO to seek out the business.

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

When looking for new suppliers Mee Memorial will request information regarding diversity status. Our buyer/manager of materials email signature includes the the following info "Mee Memorial Healthcare System A Procurement Diversity Buyer".

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

We have our Policy posted to our website and within our material management department all email signatures contain a byline that we are a procurement diversity buyer.

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 mentioned above we work with our main distributor Medline and our GPO Vizient in this area. The vast majority of our product is bought via Medline or GPO affiliated companies. Each company does reporting on their suppliers that fit under the women, LGBT and disabled veteran business category.

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

There hasn't really been an issue as we are open to working with suppliers if it works out. Since we have contracts with big distributors we are limited on some of the items we can get from smaller suppliers but our distributors do have diversity buying programs in place where they try and work with as many diverse buyers as possible.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Since we are a small hospital we don't have a commission for this but in the first year we did come up with our policy and as mentioned above the policy is listed on our company web page, our materials manager/buyer has the info "A Procurement Diversity Buyer" on all emails.

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

We have them in place and part of our policy and we have been working with our distribution and GPO partners yearly on it.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

The vast majority of our product is bought via our distributor Medline and a few other major distributors with Vizient being our GPO that works with the companies. Medline has a diversity buying department that works on this for it's customers.

Website Link(s)

https://www.meememorial.com/

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)?

$4,744,997

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: Patrick Grindstaff

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

Name: Patrick Grindstaff

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
• https://www.vizientinc.com

10. Other Relevant Information

None of our major partners are based in California but Medline and our GPO Vizient are aware of the diversity buying program that we report on and they try to help where they can as far as bringing diverse companies. As a small rural hospital our buying power is very limited and we have to be very prudent in our buying of products to save as much money as possible.

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