The hospital association is involved in
some projects, including the 100 Million
Mask Challenge, which lines up alternative
manufacturers to churn out masks for
medical workers.
Last month, the University of Vermont Health
system’s Burlington hospital was short on face
shields. But it had surplus hand sanitizer, which it
got from local distilleries that partnered to make
16-ounce “Vermont Strong” bottles, said supply
chain director Charlie Miceli.
Meanwhile, his counterpart at a Lebanon,
New Hampshire, hospital was hunting for
hand sanitizer.
They turned to The Exchange at Resilinc, a new
online trading platform from Stanford Health
Care, hospital consulting group Premier Inc. and
logistics software company Resilinc.
Miceli and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s
Curtis Lancaster posted descriptions of what they
needed and what they could trade. They were
matched up and swapped 500 of each.
“It gives you some breathing room so you can
go track down more supply,” Miceli said.
Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vikal said N95 masks,
the most protective type, are the top
requested item.
“There are more than 9,000 items that are in
various stages of being rationed,” she said,
including some medicines and multiple brands
of protective gear.
Chaun Powell, Premier’s disaster preparedness
head, noted the project also is arranging loans of
ventilators, patient beds and other equipment.