Article: Big apple IDN takes on partners, sheds supply chain costs. (Surgical Business).

Outwardly, Ken Molloy is a confident, articulate hospital administrator. He's a native New Yorker no less, though the chip on his shoulder is barely visible. That being said, all it took for Molloy was his first look at the state of the supply chain at his hospital system to leave him dazed and humbled. "We were," he says, "in the bottom fourth of the bottom fourth of all hospitals in supply chain efficiency. We had what I like to call tremendous upside opportunities."

Unchecked, that inefficiency was so deep-seated that it threatened to bury his healthcare system, New York City's sprawling Continuum Health Partners, an enormous IDN packed into the nation's most ...

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