PALOMAR REHABILITATION INSTITUTE

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

PHRI Supplier Opportunity & Engagement Program seeks to expand opportunity across its workplace, marketplace, and communities to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. The Supplier Diversity Program is an important step to advancing that mission. The Program, is focused on improving opportunities for direct and indirect spending with small & diverse businesses. Since 2021, PHRI has created a scalable framework to endeavor to increase opportunities with small & diverse suppliers across industries.

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

Overarching goal for increase in spend includes 10% YOY increase in spend with procurement from women, minority, LGBT, and disabled Veteran business enterprises.

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

Long term goals include increasing as feasible minority spend to 40% of business expenses over a 5 year period.

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 are partnered with Apollo Global Management (our parent company) and Accenture who is Apollo’s designated partner running the supplier diversity program.Our diverse supplier data is measured using our AP spend data and diverse suppliers and their active legal certification status are identified using the supplier.io platform. We report and measure this at least quarterly. With each quarterly review, we measure and review all changes in certification status, tier 2 reporting status for our prime vendors, as well as increases or decreases in spend with our diverse vendors and perform follow ups as needed.Where possible from a business perspective, we endeavor to increase our spend with diverse vendors and incorporate diverse vendors into competitive consideration and as partners across 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

Our campus is open to engage businesses and seek to obtain local inclusive representation. Where appropriate we conduct local contract management and engage the company with our procurement process.

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

Our campus is open to engage businesses and seek to obtain local inclusive representation. Where appropriate we conduct local contract management and engage the company with our procurement process.

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 are partnered with Apollo Global Management (our parent company) and Accenture who is Apollo’s designated partner running the supplier diversity program.Our diverse supplier data is measured using our AP spend data and diverse suppliers and their active legal certification status are identified using the supplier.io platform. We report and measure this at least quarterly. With each quarterly review, we measure and review all changes in certification status, tier 2 reporting status for our prime vendors, as well as increases or decreases in spend with our diverse vendors and perform follow ups as needed.Where possible from a business perspective, we endeavor to increase our spend with diverse vendors and incorporate diverse vendors into competitive consideration and as partners across the business.

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

Provided our suppliers meet regulatory and legally necessary guidelines we are free to engage openly to obtain legally approved contracts.

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

Healthtrust Performance Group is our GPO, we utilize their contracts wherever possible, often they have diversity supplier options which are considered when submitting RFP’s for new contracts. Accenture is a company who leads the supplier diversity program for us, they perform quarterly reporting to track spend with Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers.

Website Link(s)

https://apollo.supplierone.co/

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

Yes

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)?

$20,000

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: Marilyn Sharp

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

Name: Michael Purvis

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

• Apollo
• https://apollo.supplierone.co/

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