Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Maintain procurement guidelines for the use of diverse suppliers/vendors to be used by all employees responsible for purchasing. It is our policy to prefer to use a qualified diverse supplies whenever one is both available and able to meet our business terms and conditions at a competitive price. We are not obligated to use a diverse supplier over others when they are not able to meet the business requirements including pricing.

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

Our short term goals are to work to increase vendor diversity spend when it meets our business needs including pricing. We are part of a larger AHMC hospital system and have monthly meeting with Materials Management / Supply chain and work together to try to standardize suppliers and share knowledge if there is a diverse vendor that the system can use. We also work with our prime distributor and our GPO for diversity spend and diversity spend opportunities.

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

Our long term goal is to increase diversity spend by working with our sister hospitals, prime distributor and GPO.

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 work with our sister hospitals for knowledge on diversity suppliers as well as our prime distributor and GPO. We encourage spend with diversity suppliers as long as they meet our business needs including pricing.

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 responsible for the purchasing process in the hospital are aware of our diversity program to use diversity suppliers when we are able. All purchases flow through our Materials Management department who is aware of our diversity policy.

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

We work with our sister hospitals for shared knowledge for diversity vendors as well as our prime distributor for diversity vendor spend.

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 previously noted we work with our sister hospitals, prime distributor and GPO for shared knowledge for diversity vendors.

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

We work with our administration and our corporate office to approve new vendors including diversity vendors. Administration and our corporate office support our policy to work with diversity vendors as long as they meet our business needs including pricing.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

We follow the key recommendations from the Hospital Supplier Diversity Commission such as leadership accountability, capacity building and supply chain influence both internally at the hospital level and at the corporate level with our supply chain meetings.

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

We will be starting up our Value Analysis Team monthly meetings with hospital leadership to help streamline procurement with diversity vendors as one of the action items to help increase visibility for diversity vendors and spend within our business needs including pricing.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Department leaders are allowed to meet with vendors through the approval of Materials Management. Materials Management will validate new vendors for diversity status and work to increase spend with diversity vendors as long as they meet our business needs including pricing. Vendor spend is managed through Materials Management through the requisition process. Requisitions and purchase orders are signed off on by the requesting director/manager, materials management, administration and our CEO before an approved

Website Link(s)

https://www.ahmchealth.com/gemch/

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)?

$19,022,487

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: Underwood, Mark

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

Name: Underwood, Mark

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.vizient.com/

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