Category: Supply Chain

The FDA said U.S. healthcare workers should avoid all plastic syringes manufactured by Jiangsu Shenli Medical Production as the agency investigates multiple syringe suppliers. 

With the help of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Vizient and the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, the Collective Healthcare Action to Reduce MedTech Emissions launched April 9.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule it predicts will slash more than 6,200 tons of chloroprene and ethylene oxide emissions, which are used by chemical and medical sterilization plants. 

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania restricted Philips Respironics from producing and selling new respiratory devices from two facilities in the U.S., the FDA said April 9. 

Johnson & Johnson has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the cardiovascular medical device company Shockwave Medical, the drugmaker said April 5.  

In late 2022, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health merged to form Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health. Since then, the 67-hospital system has had to shape its supply chain road map. 

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine’s environmental efforts are multipronged, including saving expired devices for trainings and fine-tuning the flow of anesthesia gases. 

Hospitals and health systems may see short-term supply chain disruptions, such as delayed deliveries, in the wake of the Baltimore bridge collapse.

Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System secured two partnerships March 25 for its planned warehouse in Meridian, Idaho. 

An unspecified number of ambulatory infusion pumps were recalled because of nearly 3,700 complaints related to several product issues, the FDA said March 20.