HAZEL HAWKINS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

As part of our overall HHMH Mission, Vision, and Values, the Materials Management Department is responsible for overseeing relationships between HHMH and its suppliers, ensuring that all interactions are conducted with the highest ethical and professional standards. Our suppliers play a vital role in the continued success of HHMH, and in turn, Materials Management is committed to supporting our suppliers in achieving their objectives. One example of this commitment is our Supplier Diversity Program, which promotes engagement and commerce with small, disadvantaged, and diverse-owned businesses.

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

HHMH remains committed to developing a diverse and competitive supplier pipeline. As part of this effort, we actively recruit and engage qualified suppliers to expand our vendor network and support this initiative.

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

We continue to broaden our supplier base by widening the pool of vendors and promoting healthy competition within the supply chain. This approach enhances overall value, improves service levels, reduces supply risk, and increases procurement opportunities across a diverse range of qualified businesses, including small, disadvantaged, and diverse-owned enterprises.

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

As part of our commitment to supplier diversity, HHMH Buyers, along with a member of HHMH’s Project Management Office (PMO), actively recruit and engage suppliers to expand our network and support inclusive procurement practices. All prospective suppliers are asked to disclose their diversity status, which is an important consideration in the evaluation and selection process.

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

Our buyers actively serve on the supplier diversity program committee and are well-informed of the requirements and considerations involved in evaluating new vendors. Their involvement helps ensure that diversity and inclusion remain key factors in our procurement decisions.

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

Supplier diversity is a key consideration when selecting potential new vendors. As part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive procurement practices, a member of our Project Management Office is tasked with recruiting and engaging diverse suppliers to expand our vendor network and promote equitable opportunities.

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 do not require certification at this time.

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

We continue working to develop a diverse supplier pipeline, with a member of our Project Management Office actively recruiting and engaging qualified suppliers.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Supplier diversity is a key consideration when selecting potential new vendors. As part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive procurement practices, we work closely with our GPO and our PMO to consider and expand our vendor network and promote equitable opportunities.

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

Supplier diversity is a key consideration when selecting potential new vendors. As part of our ongoing commitment to inclusive procurement practices, we work closely with our GPO and Project Management Office (PMO) to identify, evaluate, and expand our vendor network while promoting equitable opportunities.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

We have not required certification at this point.

Website Link(s)

https://www.hazelhawkins.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)?

$2,880,462

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: Maria Barrientos

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

Name: Maria Barrientos

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 Inc.
• https://www.vizientinc.com/

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