Welcome to BlueBin's Resilience Focus newsletter! We're excited to bring you insights on the intersection of comprehensive resilience, including supply chain resilience, patient care, and staff safety. This newsletter will provide valuable analysis and strategies to help you navigate the challenges of maintaining a truly resilient healthcare organization and supply chain. Stay tuned for expert insights and actionable tips to strengthen your decision-making in the face of adversity!
Healthcare facilities can strengthen resilience by retrofitting infrastructure, installing renewable energy and backup systems, stockpiling critical supplies, identifying and preparing substitutes for critical supplies, training staff for multi-hazard response, and embedding disaster risk management into daily operations.
Medical alliances can strengthen resilience by integrating services across hospitals, pooling funds with joint decisions, empowering strong leadership, hardwiring self-regulation through clear execution and shared awareness, and embedding medical-preventive integration with metrics and continuous learning.
Healthcare facilities can strengthen ransomware resilience by layering defenses, keeping offline backups, patching systems, securing medical devices and email gateways, running cross-team response drills, training staff to spot phishing, and collaborating through networks like Health-ISAC to share intelligence and coordinate recovery.
BlueBin Client Success Story
Learn more about BlueBin client partner successes.
BlueBin’s partnership with the West Coast children’s hospital delivered resilience success by cutting supply costs in some areas up to 75%, enhancing inventory availability up to 100%, eliminating stockouts, simplifying staff workflows, and earning state recognition for operational excellence and readiness across expanding care areas.
Polls
Give your feedback on the state of the industry.
📊
How often do you run “What if...” disruption simulations?
Your Supply Chain Transformation Shouldn't Take Longer Than Your Strategic Plan
Most healthcare organizations that attempt internal lean programs face a brutal reality: 3 to 5 years before seeing meaningful, sustainable results. By then, your reimbursement landscape has shifted. Your workforce has turned over. Your competitive position has eroded.
Note: BlueBin’s mission is to transform healthcare by enhancing the supply chain process, ensuring that patient care staff have the right supplies at the right time and maximizing efficiency. In line with this mission, BlueBin advocates for and supports the AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence. By focusing on improving inventory management, optimizing supply chain processes, and minimizing waste, we aim to reduce costs, accelerate operational efficiency, and enhance clinical outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The AHRMM Keys for Supply Chain Excellence serve as key performance indicators (KPIs), establishing essential standards for supply chain management in the healthcare field. Learn more about the AHRMM Keys.
Blog summary: Hospitals can protect care and save millions by investing in resilience—updating crisis plans, hardening infrastructure, diversifying supply chains, strengthening cybersecurity, training and supporting staff, partnering with communities, and using transparent data to turn preparedness into both financial savings and long-term trust.
Did you know? BlueBin helps hospitals operationalize resilience by providing transparent, real-time data through BlueQ Analytics—optimizing supply chains, tracking readiness metrics, reducing waste and single-source risk, and freeing staff time—so crisis planning, sustainability, and financial strength are built into daily operations rather than activated only in emergencies.
Resilience Tip
"What if..." Walk Throughs
Conduct (at least) quarterly “What if... walk throughs—simulate disruptions like supplier loss, IT downtime, or surge demand with frontline teams to reveal hidden vulnerabilities and strengthen disruption response plans.
If this newsletter was forwarded to you, sign up to receive it directly!
