About Us

Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) is a non-profit trade association focused on solving for one thing—a more transparent and resilient supply chain. HIRC was created because ‘together is stronger.’ We can’t fix resiliency alone.

In 2019, a cohort of trading partners came together led by Mayo Clinic and Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health). We believed that resiliency could only be solved through collaboration. We wanted to increase partnership, communication, and transparency as a foundation for resiliency.

Our shared vision is to lead healthcare to a more transparent and resilient supply chain. Our shared purpose is to increase supply chain resiliency through alignment to standards and best practice, and foster a culture of collaboration to increase partnership, communication and transparency.

Since then, our community has quickly grown to include a host of leading providers, suppliers, and industry partners.

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HIRC Values

Partnership
Resiliency is impossible without trust, and trust is impossible without partnership. Partnership requires genuine understanding, alignment, and commitment.

Communication
Resiliency requires timely, candid, and actionable communication to best prevent and recover from supply chain disruption.

Transparency
Resiliency necessitates transparency of critical supplies, locations, risks, and shared mitigation strategies as well as bi-directional flow of supply chain information.

HIRC Strategy

Priorities

Convene and champion resiliency in healthcare
Standards and best practice
Resiliency, transparency, alignment

Results

Clear measures and incentives for sustainable resilient operations. Less fracturing and duplication.
Industry norms to drive proactive risk identification and mitigation.
Reduction in supply chain disruption frequency and impact. Increased coordination and efficiency.

Our Stance

HIRC is committed to improving the resiliency of the healthcare supply chain. This includes recognizing that we, both suppliers and providers, have the responsibility to our patients and healthcare staff, to ensuring we improve the strength of the supply chain. We know that this takes genuine Partnership, Collaboration and Transparency.

Supply chain functions have, for too long, been passive in their approach to addressing these challenges, and now is the time for leading organizations to reshape the paradigm and create a more reliable supply chain for our patients. We believe that a fragmented industry approach will not reach the necessary goal of supply resiliency, but rather exacerbate existing challenges.

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Thank you to our founding members:

Providers: AdventHealth, BJC HealthCare, Centura Health, Corewell Health, Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, and Stanford HealthCare.

Suppliers: Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Medtronic, Sandoz, and Stryker.

HIRC is uniquely positioned to create a common place for suppliers, providers, GPOs, industry forums, and academics to work in transparent and open dialog. This is how we collectively will change and improve healthcare resiliency.

Tom Harvieux
CSCO BJC HealthCare & Officer

2024 Board
2024 Officers
2024 Supplier Advisory Council
Staff

2024 Board

Tom Lubotsky

Vice President Supply Chain

Allina Health

Jeremy How

Corporate Vice President Sales Operations

B Braun

Alan Mavis

Senior Director, National Accounts

Baxter

Tom Harvieux

Chief Supply Chain Officer

BJC HealthCare

Geoff Gates

Senior Director, SCSS P2P & Technology

Cleveland Clinic

Tina Hanson

System Director Supply Chain Distribution

CommonSpirit Health

Bill Selles

Senior Vice President Supply Chain

Corewell Health

Bill Moir

Senior Vice President Supply Chain and Support Services

Henry Ford Health

Lisa Hogan

Director of Value Analysis

Mayo Clinic

Joe Robinson

Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Facilities

Medtronic

Andy Hamilton

Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain

MultiCare Health System

Regine Villain

SVP, Chief Supply Chain & Support Services Officer

Ochsner Health

Katie Dean

Vice President – Supply Chain Strategy, Programs, and Business

Stanford Health Care

Justin Griggs

Senior Clinical Resource Officer

Vanderbilt Health