INFECTION PREVENTION AND SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERS
Creating Momentum Ochsner Health’s Régine Honoré Villain and her supply chain team acted quickly to procure supplies amid the early surge of COVID-19 cases in New Orleans. What she learned during that time will help Louisiana’s largest healthcare provider for future planning.
For Régine Honoré Villain, MPH, senior vice president
COVID-19 cases were first being reported in the United states in
supply chain network, chief supply chain officer of New Orleans,
Washington State, and then the next big surge that made the news was
Louisiana-based Ochsner Health, the squeeze on supplies started
New York. “We were two or three days behind New York, so we were
in early March 2020. “Almost overnight, we started to see a pinch
surging at basically same time,” she said. “We experienced a pinch
on supplies,” she said.
that perhaps others did not experience because of that timeline.”
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June 2021 | The Journal of Healthcare Contracting
