BUYLINE Making the grade


Rick Dana Barlow Senior Edior


Back in the early 1990s, Hospital Purchasing News was a busy oversized tabloid, newspaper-style trade publication that concentrated on what was then called materials management and central service topics in the acute care setting, both of which today are nestled under the supply chain and sterile processing and distribution (SPD) umbrella. By mid-decade as President Clinton’s healthcare reform initiative headed into full swing, HPN embarked on a massive topical and visual redesign that expanded coverage beyond the hospital walls (hence the new name of Healthcare Purchas-


ing News), along with a more colorful and magazine-like look and feel (yes, the old brownish “hpn” price tag was relocated to the historical archives, but check out the photos embedded in “Buyline” online.) The “new” HPN not only pushed into supply chain and SPD coverage in non-acute settings, which I since have labeled “remote care” but back then was tagged with the curious “alternate site” label. It also steamrollered into operating room/surgical services and infection control topics from a supply chain perspective. To accommodate the new topical expansions, we created a bimonthly “OR Purchasing News” supplement within the magazine as well as a smaller-sized quarterly “Infection Control Impact Section” as a pullout.


Within the new “OR Purchasing News” mini-magazine, we launched an annual departmental award to recognize cost containment/expense management success in surgical services that joined our annual awards for materials management leader and CS departments. Our goal was to emphasize and promote the importance of managing and reducing costs in the OR, which remains one of the key revenue- and cost-generating departments in the organization.


Each November during those “tri-9 years” of 1994-1996, HPN profi led an O team


doing exceptional work. In November 1994, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, earned the fi rst award, then known as the O Cost-Containment Department of the Year. The next year, on the opposite coast, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, brought home the title. In November 1996, which would turn out to be the last year the award was given, the winning facility emerged back on the West Coast with Mt. Diablo Medical Center, Concord, CA, capturing the honors. We still doff our fedoras to them. As HPN changed publishing companies and formats over the years, that Surgical Services award slipped into the historical archives and perhaps the memories of veteran readers through the decades.


Guess what? A quarter century later, it’s back and better than ever with a bright new name, shiny new focus and a treasured new attitude. Just in case you missed the colorful cover, the winning recipient of the 2022 Surgical Performance Excellence in Supply Chain Award is Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, for its comprehensive take on perioperative business. Meanwhile, McLeod Health, Florence, SC, earned Honorable Mention for its extensive achievements in its orthopedic service line. Read about both in this edition of HPN and online. We salute these impressive and innovative organizations – Lehigh Valley for its macro perspective and McLeod Health for its micro focus. You should, too. Finally, HPN also has been deep into the assessment process for its 30th


annual SPD


Department of the Year Award. At press time in early February, we selected four fi nalists based on the breadth, depth and merit of their detailed nominations. By the time this edition hits your desks during the fi rst week in March we’ll already have completed the profi le of this year’s winner, due to be revealed in the April 222 edition of HPN. Who are the 222 fi nalists In alphabetical order, they are HonorHealth, Scottsdale,


AZ; NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL; Stony Brook Medicine, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY; and Terrebonne General Health System, Houma, LA. Send them all double high-fi ves.


EDITORIAL


Publisher/Executive Editor Kristine Russell krussell@hpnonline.com


Features Editor Assistant Editor


Senior Editor Rick Dana Barlow rickdanabarlow@hpnonline.com Kara Nadeau


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Erin Brady ebrady@hpnonline.com (941) 208-0197


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