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St. Onge’s Healthcare Hall of Famer and industry icon, Fred Crans, chats with leaders from all areas of healthcare to discuss the issues of today's- threats, challenges and emerging trends and technologies in a lighthearted and engaging manner.
ENGINEERING A BETTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
We provide comprehensive planning and design services to develop world-class facilities and highly effective support services operations. Our capabilities in hospital supply chain consulting include applied industrial engineering, lean methodologies, systems thinking, and operations research to enable improved patient care and staff satisfaction. We are proud to have worked with over 100 hospitals, including 18 of the top 22 in the US, utilizing diverse design strategies, post-construction implementation, and change management.
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Passing The Baton In Healthcare Supply Chains
We explore how a retiring SVP and a new SVP engineered a seamless leadership handoff at a national health system, turning succession into a strategic advantage. Mentorship, team alignment, and…
Strategic Leadership In The Age Of AI
We explore why AI cannot replace judgment, how curated data and sharp questions prevent elegant mistakes, and what separates strategic leadership from transactional management. The conversation…
So You Moved “South” To Cleveland: Building A Future-Ready Supply Chain Without The Drama
We explore how Cleveland Clinic scales supply chain excellence across 26 hospitals and hundreds of sites through daily safety huddles, rapid standardization, and honest system-wide assessments. Sarh…
Standardize What Matters, Empower Clinicians, Own The Channel
We trace a practical playbook for transforming a hospital supply chain after major acquisitions, from stakeholder listening to a four-pillar strategy that ties clinical choice to operational…
Kids Aren’t Small Adults, And Your Inventory Should Know It
We explore how pediatric care reshapes supply chain strategy and why curiosity, clear KPIs, and real relationships drive better outcomes. We also dig into rural pressures, shifting reimbursements,…
Supply Chains In The Crosswinds
We take the pulse of supply chain headlines with Bryan Jensen and Tom Redding, exploring planning, sourcing, and the push for visibility amid policy shifts, tariffs, and healthcare disruption. We…
From OR Floors To C-Suite
We explore how a former OR tech became a supply chain leader and built trust with physicians while modernizing contracts, inventory, and utilization. Alan shares the playbook for “reasonable just in…
Sixty Years Of Healthcare Supply Chain Wisdom
Season three opens with a twist: Tom Redding takes the interviewer’s chair to explore Fred Crans's 60-year journey across healthcare logistics and supply chain. What follows is a fast-paced, deeply…
What Suppliers Wish Hospitals Knew About Value, Quality, And Risk
We talk with Stuart Wooster, a former hospital supply chain leader now on the supplier side, about how value, quality, and risk management change when you build products as well as deliver them. The…
From Value Analysis to Sterile Processing: How Better Beats Bigger in Healthcare Supply Chain
We explore how smarter value analysis, better space planning, and disciplined sterile processing turn hidden complexity into safer, simpler care. Crystal shares cases where consolidating supply…
S2E30 When Compassion Crosses Borders: A Supply Chain Leader's Mission
Greg Goddard, Division Vice President of Supply Chain at Scion Health, shares his extraordinary work with Ukrainian orphans through his foundation Simply Loved Orphan Care. Despite ongoing war, Greg…
S2E29 From Struggling to Standout: How a Mid-sized Health System Built an Award-winning Supply Chain
St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho has been recognized by Gartner as one of the top 25 healthcare supply chains in the country, achieving this distinction as a mid-sized independent…
S2E28 Healthcare's Next Generation is Learning Supply Chain by Design, Not Accident
Reggie Gardner, a Navy Corpsman turned graduate student, represents the future of healthcare supply chain by combining practical medical experience with formal supply chain education at the…
S2E27 Engineering the Future-Ready Healthcare Infrastructure
Tom Redding, Executive Vice President and Healthcare Practice Lead at St Onge Company, discusses why healthcare organizations need to regularly assess their supply chain operations to stay…
S2E26 We Can't Keep Doing the Same Things and Expect Different Results
Mark Van Sumeren, Managing Director at Health Industry Advisor, discusses the perfect storm facing healthcare: tariffs increasing costs, Medicare demands growing with the aging population, and…
S2E25 The Heart of Healthcare Supply Chain: It's Not About Counting Beans
Régine Villain, SVP of Supply Chain at Ochsner Health and 2023 AMR Award winner, discusses healthcare supply chain resilience and the engineering mindset that has shaped her leadership approach.•…
S2E24 Designing Hospital Spaces for Tomorrow's Challenges
Struggling with hospital logistics as patient populations grow but your infrastructure stays the same? You're not alone. In this eye-opening conversation with Albert Nkansah, Project Manager at St…
S2E23 The Lean Advantage: How One Leader Transformed Three Different Supply Chains
What happens when military precision meets corporate efficiency in healthcare? In this eye-opening conversation, Chico Manning, Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Supply Chain at PIH Health and…
S2E22 Supply Chain Turbulence: Navigating Healthcare's New Reality
"The most stirred up soup I've ever seen in healthcare." That's how host Fred Crans describes the current state of healthcare supply chains in this eye-opening conversation with industry veteran John…
S2E21 The Best Kept Secret in Supply Chain Consulting
What happens when you combine a background in medieval literature with supply chain expertise? A fascinating perspective that challenges how we think about business problems. In this captivating…
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