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Article: Supply chain a C-faring topic for hospital chiefs: HPN honors three with a knack for the material world.(Supply Chain Focused CEOs)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
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- January 1, 2006
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If someone were to tell you that most, if not all, hospital CEOs are woefully out of touch with supply chain management issues in their facilities don't believe that person for a New York minute. At best, it's a dismissive stereotype of executive suite and ivory tower philosophy, not to mention of the materials management department. At worst, it's a gross misrepresentation of the cosmopolitan hospital chiefs in practice today.
Certainly, many fit the stereotype and they do a shameful disservice to the small but growing number of CEOs who have been thinking outside their mahogany box in the C-suite.
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