NEWSWIRE FAST STATS
With hard-won gains of the last three months at risk, the ACT-Accelerator has mounted a US$ 7.7 billion appeal, the Rapid ACT- Accelerator Delta Response (RADAR), is needed to fund COVID-19 initiatives:
US$2.4 BILLION
Is the investment needed to scale up testing to put all low- and lower-middle-income
countries on track towards a ten-fold increase in COVID-19 testing and ensure all countries get up to satisfactory testing levels.
US$ 1 BILLION
Is needed to maintain R&D efforts to stay ahead of the virus by enabling further
market shaping and manufacturing, technical assistance and demand generation to ensure that tests, treatments and vaccines remain effective against the Delta variant and other emerging variants, and that they are accessible and affordable where they are needed.
US$ 1.2 BILLION
Will help rapidly address acute oxygen needs to treat the seriously ill and control the exponential death surges caused by the Delta variant.
US$ 1.4 BILLION
Needed to help countries identify and address key bottlenecks for the effective deployment and use of all COVID-19 tools.
US$ 1.7 BILLION Will protect 2 million frontline healthcare
workers with enough basic PPE to keep them safe while they care for the sick, prevent the collapse of health systems where the health workforce is already understaffed and overstretched, and prevent further spread of COVID-19.
Source: The ACT-Accelerator Q2 2021 Update Report from WHO Internation, which provides an overview of the progress made in bringing life-saving COVID-19 tools to countries around the world, and highlights the efforts made to ensure health systems are able to receive and fully optimize the use of COVID-19 countermea- sures, It shows how investments made to the ACT-Accelerator have driven results and impact in the fight against COVID-19.
https://www.who.int/news/item/16-08-2021-act-accelerator- launches-urgent-appeal-to-stem-surge-of-dangerous-variants-and- save-lives-everywhere
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Bellwether announces 2021 Hall of Fame for Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership Bellwether League Foundation’s Hall of Fame for Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership elected 9 professionals, hailed as innovators, leaders,trailblazers and visionaries for their industry contributions and performance, as honorees of the Bell- wether Class of 2021. They join 120 earlier honorees inducted since inception. Bellwether League Foundation’s Board of Directors selected the following profes- sionals for the 14th Bellwether Class: John M. Burks, Jacob J. Groenewold, Thomas P. Harvieux, Michael C. Kaufmann, Ben W. Latimer, Gary H. Rakes, Barbara Strain, F. DeWight Titus III and Mark A. Van Sumeren. Bellwether Class of 2021 honorees will be inducted at the 14th Annual Bellwether League Foundation Induction & Rec- ognition Event, scheduled for Monday, October 4. Bellwether League Foundation’s Board and Advisory Council selected these profes- sionals for their achievements and contribu- tions in the delivery of quality care through efficient nd innovative supply chain opera- tions. They represent creative thinkers who take the initiative, expand the boundaries of what’s possible, and perform in a way that improves and promotes the profes- sion of supply chain management among hospitals, group purchasing organizations (GPOs), manufacturers and distributors, consulting firms, educational institutions and media properties. Bellwether Class of 2021 John M. Burks (1954-2017) may have been known as a conceptualizing marketer, specializing in developing complex selling messages and building name brand recog- nition for healthcare organizations, but he also served as an instrumental evangelist for electronic commerce adoption and implementation, extolling its inherent value. Further, Burks advocated for the cre- ation and use of e-commerce standards as a founding board member of the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS). He played leading roles in launching the successful e-commerce program of one of the nation’s largest group purchasing organizations as well as that GPO’s private-label purchasing program. Jacob J. Groenewold was integral in expand- ing traditional healthcare materials man- agement operations to such non-traditional areas as capital equipment and laboratory as far back as the 1980s. He co-developed one of the first hospital-based supply chain consulting and outsourcing services in the nation as well as one of the earliest hospital-
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based consolidated service centers that later was acquired by a leading distributor. Groenewold has hired, developed, trained, mentored and supervised hundreds of healthcare supply chain consultants, profes- sionals and leaders for several decades and created one of the first supply chain benchmarking programs in the industry. Thomas P. Harvieux epitomizes the pro-
gressive strategic and tactical supply chain leader who builds or reconstructs operations holistically from the ground up, something he has accomplished at a hospital within one award-winning health system and then at two prominent multi- state integrated delivery networks (IDNs). At all three organizations, Harvieux initi- ated and led the centralization of supply chain services and effective linkages with clinical information systems. Michael C. Kaufmann has served in a variety of leadership positions across opera- tions, sales and finance, in both the phar- maceutical and medical/surgical product divisions, during his three-decade career- to-date at Cardinal Health, but he is most known for redirecting and reenergizing how the company handles product sourc- ing and distribution. Kaufmann embraces a “transformational” philosophy in that he anticipates signs of change, not only structuring new ways of doing business, but also having spearheaded numerous diversity and inclusion initiatives for more than a decade. Historically, Kaufmann has been a staunch advocate for emergency pre- paredness and crisis response, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, and promotes the value of supply chain performance excellence.
Ben W. Latimer represents one of the
group purchasing pioneers reshaping GPO operations during the Silver and Modern Ages of healthcare supply chain history. An industrial engineer by pedigree and training, Latimer brought management engineering principles and techniques to supply chain processes and clinical practices for nursing. Latimer founded SunHealth as a management engineering consulting and outsourcing company in 1969 that blossomed into one of the lead- ing regional shared services organizations. Due in part to that success, the shared services organization became one of the heritage GPOs to form the Premier Inc. by the close of the millennium. . Gary H. Rakes, CFAAMA, CMRP, CSCS,
spent the first two decades of his health- care supply chain career leading opera- tions at a variety of military healthcare facilities in the U.S. and Europe for the Navy and Army, including the USNS Comfort Hospital Ship. After retiring
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