Supply Chain World Volume 12 Issue 1 | Page 69

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Health

Strategic resilience

Inside Banner Health ’ s extensive supply chain and how it cares for more than one million members

Based in Phoenix , Arizona , Banner Health is one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the US , operating a network of 33 hospitals , three academic medical centers , and several specialist facilities across six states : Arizona , California , Colorado , Nebraska , Nevada , and Wyoming . With a mission of ‘ making healthcare easier , so life can be better ,’ Banner currently serves more than one million members , striving to effectively manage the health and wellness of its patients by expanding access to quality healthcare .

Banner ’ s comprehensive services span urgent care , imaging , surgery centers , maternity , hospice , home care , telehealth , and emergency .
These medical services fall into one of three categories : everyday medicine , acute and specialty care , and medical services . Everyday medicine encompasses diabetes care , emergency services , imaging , outpatient surgery , physical therapy , telehealth , sports medicine , and urgent care . Acute and specialty care looks after academic medicine , Alzheimer ’ s and dementia , weight loss surgery , cancer , heart conditions , neurology and neurosurgery , orthopedics , and pediatrics . Lastly , medical services include behavioral and mental health , maternity , occupational health , pain management , pharmacy , and women ’ s health . scw-mag . com 35