PALOMAR MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

At Palomar Health, we believe that fostering a diverse and inclusive supply chain is essential to achieving health equity, driving innovation, and strengthening the communities we serve. As a leading healthcare provider, we are committed to creating opportunities for businesses that reflect the rich diversity of our patients, staff, and stakeholders. We actively seek to engage and support suppliers that are minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, disability-owned, and small and disadvantaged businesses. Our Supplier Diversity Program is a part of our strategic sourcing and procurement practices. We strive to: • Ensure equitable access to contracting and procurement opportunities. • Build long-term, sustainable relationships with diverse suppliers. • Track, measure, and report on our progress toward supplier diversity goals. We are proud to partner with diverse suppliers and remain committed to driving meaningful and measurable impact through our supplier diversity initiatives.

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 organizations spend with diverse suppliers has increased each year.

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 organizations spend with diverse suppliers has increased each year.

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

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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

N/A

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

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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

At Palomar Health, we believe that fostering a diverse and inclusive supply chain is essential to achieving health equity, driving innovation, and strengthening the communities we serve. As a leading healthcare provider, we are committed to creating opportunities for businesses that reflect the rich diversity of our patients, staff, and stakeholders. We actively seek to engage and support suppliers that are minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, disability-owned, and small and disadvantaged businesses. Our Supplier Diversity Program is a part of our strategic sourcing and procurement practices. We strive to: • Ensure equitable access to contracting and procurement opportunities. • Build long-term, sustainable relationships with diverse suppliers. • Track, measure, and report on our progress toward supplier diversity goals. We are proud to partner with diverse suppliers and remain committed to driving meaningful and measurable impact through our supplier diversity initiatives.

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

At Palomar Health, we believe that fostering a diverse and inclusive supply chain is essential to achieving health equity, driving innovation, and strengthening the communities we serve. As a leading healthcare provider, we are committed to creating opportunities for businesses that reflect the rich diversity of our patients, staff, and stakeholders. We actively seek to engage and support suppliers that are minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, disability-owned, and small and disadvantaged businesses. Our Supplier Diversity Program is a part of our strategic sourcing and procurement practices. We strive to: • Ensure equitable access to contracting and procurement opportunities. • Build long-term, sustainable relationships with diverse suppliers. • Track, measure, and report on our progress toward supplier diversity goals. We are proud to partner with diverse suppliers and remain committed to driving meaningful and measurable impact through our supplier diversity initiatives.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

N/A

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

N/A

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

N/A

Website Link(s)

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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)?

$120,188,084

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: Kyle Menig

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

Name: Heather Woodling

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

• Healthtrust Purchasing Group
• http://www.healthtrustpg.com

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