SCRIPPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL – ENCINITAS

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

We seek suppliers and service providers with the highest quality and financial opportunities. We recognize the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage prospective suppliers or service providers to reach out if interested in being considered for existing or future business opportunities.

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

We continue to encourage prospective suppliers or service providers to reach out if interested in being considered for existing or future business opportunities. We have invested in technology that gives us vendor diversity designations and spend visibility. We continue to work with our GPO, our primary supply distributor, having discussions during our contracting process as well as working with a local collaborative to help identify diversity suppliers in our community.

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 plan to continue with our short-term goals and will be explore opportunities on the intake process for prospective suppliers.

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 a centralized procurement and contracting team. These are the individuals conducting the activities listed in the short and long term goals.

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

We have a centralized procurement and contracting team. These are the individuals conducting the activities listed in the short and long term goals.

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

Providing our contract contact information for interested suppliers on our internet page, working with our GPO, working with our primary supply distributor, having discussions during our contracting process as well as working with a local collaborative to help identify diversity suppliers in our community.

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

Providing our contract contact information for interested suppliers on our internet page, working with our GPO, working with our primary supply distributor, having discussions during our contracting process as well as working with a local collaborative to help identify diversity suppliers in our community.

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

We have a centralized procurement and contracting team. Should any issues arise with selection or implementation of a supplier, our contracting team is capable of handling exceptions and informing leadership where necessary.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Our past implementations based on the recommendations are; creating a policy statement, providing our corporate supply chain contact information to prospective suppliers and tracking of our existing diversity spend.

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

Our future planned recommendation improvements are; exploring the opportunity to implement an intake solution for prospective suppliers and continuing our existing program.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

The overall goal of our hospital procurement is to procure and provide the right products at the right place and right time to support clinical care. As product is utilized within our hospital locations our site logistics generates replenishment requests based on PAR levels. Those replenishment requests are processed through our centralized procurement team and product is then shipped by the vendors to the associated hospital location. Logistics then restocks the inventory locations at the hospital.

Website Link(s)

https://www.scripps.org/vendor-information

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)?

$67,996,488

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: Scripps Supply Chain Management

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

Name: Scripps Supply Chain Management

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

None.

10. Other Relevant Information

N/A

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