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, BCJ, Centura Health, HealthCare, Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, Spectrum Health, Stanford HealthCare.

Suppliers: Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Medtronic, Philips, Sandoz, Stryker, Sysmex America, W.L. Gore.

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 & HIRC Chair

Board
Officers
Supplier Advisory Council
Staff

Board

Pete Bennett

SVP, US Demand & Planning

Cardinal Health

Ruben Colon

VP, Strategic Sourcing

AdventHealth

Katie Dean

Administrative Director

Stanford Healthcare

Sree Duggineni

Executive Director

City of Hope

Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Director, Category Management

Mayo Clinic

Andy Hamilton

AVP, Supply Chain

MultiCare Health

Tom Harvieux

CSCO

BJC HealthCare

Geoff Gates

Sr. Director, P2P & Technology

Cleveland Clinic

Tom Lubotsky

VP, Supply Chain

Allina Health

Alan Mavis

Senior Director, IDNs

Baxter Healthcare

Charlie Miceli

VP and CSCO

UVM Health Network

Eric Morrison

System VP SSRM Operations

CommonSpirit Health

Joe Robinson

VP, Enterprise Risk & Continuity

Medtronic

Bill Selles

SVP, Supply Chain

Corewell Health

Regine Villain

SVP, Supply Chain Network & Chief Supply Chain Officer

Ochsner Health System

Officers

Tom Harvieux

Chair

Katie Dean

Chair Elect

Bill Selles

Past Chair

Joe Robinson

Treasurer

Ruben Colon

Secretary