SupplyChain Magazine August 2019 | Page 94

STEWARD HEALTH CARE
94 an executive steering committee , what makes ours different is that we also have a product category team serving as the inflection point to understand what ’ s happening in the facilities and generate lots of grassroot ideas that are evaluated and monitored for broad standardization across our nine-state footprint .”
Due to the firm ’ s significant transformation over the past two years which has seen the number of Steward
Health Care hospitals dramatically increase from 10 to 38 , the company considers innovation a key pillar to its future growth and pivotal to success . “ We fundamentally believe innovation is the core ,” explains Prokopis . “ Due to the way we ’ ve expanded , we ’ re moving at the speed of light . I like to joke that we ’ re a car moving down the road at 100mph and we ’ re not only changing the tires , but we ’ re also going to swap out the engine and the
AUGUST 2019