UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH HILLCREST – HILLCREST MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

The UC San Diego Health Medical System relies on the University of California procurement policies.

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

UC does not have timetables, numerical goals, or quotas relating to women, minority or LGBT business enterprises. UC San Diego Health plans to undertake the following in the short term: 1) Annual review of procurement procedures to address supplier diversity goals. 2) Implement an outreach program for addressable spend by Dec 2026. The review and outreach programs are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

UC does not have timetables, numerical goals, or quotas relating to women, minority, and/or LGBT business enterprises. UC San Diego Health plans to undertake the following in the long term: 1) Create an external website for suppliers to reach out and make contact with system and/or local Supply Chain offices by Dec 2026. 2) Connect suppliers to individual location supply chain offices by Dec 2026. The website and connections of suppliers to supply chain offices are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

The UC San Diego Health Medical System has implemented programs to conduct broad outreach of suppliers, including, but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran business enterprises. At supplier onboarding we request/capture diversity status identification. The outreach programs are not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

Employees involved in procurement at the UC San Diego Health Medical System are encouraged to identify potential suppliers including but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran businesses through use of an internet-based service where certified businesses can be identified by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code whenever a contracting need arises.

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

Communication and outreach to potential suppliers, including, but not limited to minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran owned business is conducted through public, freely available information on the UC San Diego Health Medical System's internet site. Please see https://health.ucsd.edu/vendors/supplier-and-vendor-guide/ for specific details. Information on open bid solicitations – current vendor contracts sought by the UC San Diego Health Medical System – is additively available at https://health.ucsd.edu/vendors/supplier-and-vendor-guide/ Communication and outreach is not limited to any suppliers based on race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

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

The UC San Diego Health Medical System utilizes the previously noted internet-based services of Supplier.io as appropriate in vendor interactions, referring businesses to a vendor registration portal that has been set up at https://uchealth.supplierone.co/. This registration portal allows businesses to self-certify on any diversity characteristics, which is subsequently reported to the UC San Diego Health Medical System.

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

Communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve any issues or concerns that may impede that supplier being onboarded.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

UC Health has established guidelines and recommendations. We have metrics on reporting spend with diversity supplier by classification group. At our site during the bid process we encourage suppliers to identify diversity classification.

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

UC San Diego Health Medical System is further enhancing via collaboration, data and reporting metrics, and data literacy opportunities and areas to improve outreach and further new supplier participation, including, but not limited to women, minority, LGBT, and disabled veteran business enterprises. These activities will be done both internally in our organization and externally in our community.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

Please see BUS43 https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3220485/BFB-BUS-43 for specific details on UC procurement policy and procedures.

Website Link(s)

https://health.ucsd.edu/vendors/

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)?

$166,079,682

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: Birdie Howe

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

Name: Birdie Howe

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.vizientinc.com

10. Other Relevant Information

Given functional difficulty in determining businesses with a majority workforce within California, the UC San Diego Health Medical System is providing procurements with qualified minority, women, LGBT and disabled veteran businesses regardless of workforce location in this year's submission.

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