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!
Industry News
Learn what's happening in healthcare resilience.
Nurse.org: Bipartisan ‘Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act’ Aims to Ease Nurse, Doctor Shortages The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, repeatedly introduced since 2020 with bipartisan support, seeks to recapture 40,000 unused employment-based visas (25,000 for nurses and 15,000 for physicians) to grant permanent residency to foreign-trained healthcare workers already in the U.S., aiming to ease critical staffing shortages but stalled by broader immigration debates and competing policy priorities.
Understanding the Resilience of Healthcare Systems, edited by Karl Blanchet and published by The MIT Press, gathers insights from over 30 global experts to explore how health systems adapt, reorganize, and strengthen in the face of crises like pandemics, wars, and climate change, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical tools for policymakers, managers, and students seeking to build adaptive, anticipatory, and resilient healthcare systems.
BMC Public Health:Health financial resilience in individuals and households: a scoping review of components, strategies and outcomes Individual/household financial resilience hinges on four components—economic resources, financial knowledge/behaviors, social capital, and access to financial services—with common strategies (income diversification, saving, prudent borrowing, spending cuts, leveraging networks) linked to reduced fragility, higher well-being, and greater stability, while urging policies to boost financial literacy, inclusion, and social safety nets—especially for vulnerable groups—and highlighting gaps around standardized metrics, structural determinants, and the role of digital finance.
BlueBin Client Success Story
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Cleveland Clinic Martin Health strengthened its resilience by implementing BlueBin’s lean two-bin Kanban and BlueQ analytics system, which streamlined supply operations across departments, eliminated restocking interruptions, saved over 21,000 clinical and support hours annually, and ensured supplies were always available at the bedside for uninterrupted patient care.
Polls
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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: Healthcare remains the costliest industry for data breaches—averaging nearly $11M per incident—because of complex systems, delayed detection, and high-value patient data, but hospitals can cut risks and costs by adopting automated playbooks, engaging law enforcement, training staff, and securing supply chain platforms.
Did you know? BlueBin helps hospitals cut the risk and cost of $11M-average healthcare data breaches by securing supply chain transactions end-to-end through error-controlled SmartScan requisitioning, role-based access and audit trails in BlueQ, and real-time dashboards/reports that flag anomalies, stock-outs, or contract variances—effectively serving as an automated playbook for detection, staff training, and secure supply-chain management.
Resilience Tip
Use Item Velocity Reports to Prevent Stockouts
Use daily item velocity reports to continuously adjust par levels—keeping bins from going stale or critical ensures supplies flow smoothly even under stress.
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