Hospital Supplier Diversity Plans

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Watsonville Community Hospital maintains procurement guidelines that promote the use of diverse suppliers by all employees responsible for purchasing activities. It is the Hospital's policy to utilize qualified diverse suppliers whenever they are available and able to meet the Hospital's business requirements, including quality, service, delivery, and competitive pricing. While Watsonville Community Hospital is committed to fostering supplier diversity, the Hospital is not obligated to award business to a diverse supplier if they are unable to satisfy the required business terms, conditions, performance expectations, or pricing standards.

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 are actively working to identify and engage qualified diverse suppliers through our Group Purchasing Organization, Vizient. Our goal is to continue expanding our pool of diverse suppliers by evaluating new sourcing opportunities and incorporating qualified businesses that can meet the Hospital's standards for quality, service, delivery, and competitive pricing.

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 further strengthen our supplier diversity efforts by formalizing a comprehensive program that includes policies, defined oversight and regular reporting processes. These efforts will help embed supplier diversity into our procurement practices and promote consistency across the organization. As we improve our data collection systems, we intend to establish baseline metrics for our current spend with diverse suppliers. From there, we aim to set aspirational but achievable multi-year targets for increasing that spend. Our long-term vision is to create an inclusive supply chain that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve, strengthens the local economy, and contributes to equitable access to opportunity.

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

Vizient provides a listed of "Diversity" supplier contracts on the member accessible online contracts portal.

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

1. Employees with contracting or procurement responsibilities shall utilize available resources to identify and evaluate qualified diverse suppliers for all applicable purchasing and contracting opportunities. When applicable, suppliers should hold recognized certification as a diverse business enterprise. Employees shall also incorporate qualified diverse suppliers throughout the contracting and procurement process and actively promote their participation whenever appropriate opportunities exist.

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

Employees within the supply chain and sourcing arenas are encouraged to refer minority-owned businesses to register with the Vizient Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) in order to obtain preferred vendor status.

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

Watsonville Community Hospital regularly collaborates with its Group Purchasing Organization, Vizient, to identify sourcing opportunities that include qualified diverse suppliers. Through routine business reviews and supplier discussions, the Hospital evaluates available vendors, including certified women-, minority-, LGBT-, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises, as part of its procurement process. The Hospital will continue to leverage these partnerships to support and expand supplier diversity opportunities as they become available and meet all business requirements, including price.

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

Any issues that limit or impede an enterprise from becoming a supplier would be brought forward during the meetings with Vizient.

5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

Some recommendations have already been implemented at Watsonville Community Hospital. The Hospital has maintained a supplier diversity policy and incorporates supplier diversity into its procurement practices. In addition, our primary distribution partner, Owens & Minor, and our Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), Vizient, both track and report spending with certified diverse suppliers, providing valuable data to support our supplier diversity efforts. Moving forward, Watsonville Community Hospital plans to further strengthen its supplier diversity program by enhancing policies, establishing formal oversight responsibilities, and implementing regular reporting processes. These efforts will help integrate supplier diversity into the Hospital's procurement practices and promote consistency and accountability across the organization.

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

As we improve our data collection systems, we intend to establish baseline metrics for our current spend with diverse suppliers. From there, we aim to set targets for increasing that spend — for example, growing diverse supplier engagement by a defined percentage year over year.

6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

The hospital contracts with a Group Purchasing Organization, Vizient, to benefit from the aggregate purchasing power. This also reduces the administrative burden involved with sourcing, negotiating, and managing supplier contracts.

Website Link(s)

watsonvillehospital.org

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)?

$12,102,912

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: Steve Bajari

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

Name: Steve Bajari

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
• vizientinc.com

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