KERN MEDICAL CENTER

1. Policy Statement

Supplier Diversity Policy Statement

Kern Medical is committed to developing and providing access to business opportunities for Women owned, Ethnic Minorities owned, Veteran owned, and LGBTQ+ owned vendors interested in providing business solutions to support Kern Medical in our efforts to deliver safe, compassionate, high-quality care, and improve the health and well-being of our community. In collaboration with our group purchasing organization (HealthTrust Purchasing Group) we will increase the utilization of underutilized and underrepresented businesses in the supply chain.

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

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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

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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

Kern Medical’s Supply Chain Management team works collaboration with our Administration team as well as all departments that oversee high dollar projects including Facility Management, Pharmacy Information services and the Laboratory. We encourage and educate the departments to maintain awareness of and strive to support the development of diverse business enterprises. Additionally, (our G.P.O.) HealthTrust’s Supplier Diversity Program includes ethnic minority owned, women owned, veteran and service-disabled owned businesses in their portfolio. Diverse companies completing a Prospective Supplier Profile and matching a business need are vetted and considered in the competitive bid process.

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

Kern Medical’s Supply Chain Management team works collaboration with our Administration team as well as all departments that oversee high dollar projects including Facility Management, Pharmacy Information services and the Laboratory. We encourage and educate the departments to maintain awareness of and strive to support the development of diverse business enterprises.

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

Through our G.P.O.’s process, vendors are vetted and notified of opportunities within various categories of spend considered actionable for diverse vendors. Locally we encourage vendors to contact and become members of our G.P.O. to allow them to join the pool of vendors on contract.

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

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

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5. Diversity Commission Recommendations and Planned Implementations

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

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

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6. Procurement Process and Certification

Please describe your hospital's procurement process

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Website Link(s)

http://www.kernmedical.com

Do you require suppliers to be certified?

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Do you accept self-certification

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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)?

$202,425,396

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: Miguel Sandoval

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

Name: --

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.

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