Four Years of Innovation, Collaboration & Consolidation
This week marks an anniversary for our organization. It was four years ago that Mohawk and Medbuy took the bold step to become one entity – reducing duplication in the marketplace and simplifying supply chain for hospitals so they could work with one company, one round of RFPs and one set of contracts for their medical/surgical and pharmaceutical supplies. That, in turn, also made it easier for the vendor community to respond with their best programs to our large-scale sourcing initiatives.
In the early days of Mohawk Medbuy Corporation – MMC, for short – we devoted a significant amount of time and energy integrating to one ERP system and creating a comprehensive Master data repository. Those efforts now give us the capacity to provide clinicians with one source for almost a quarter of a million contracted products and services, real time access to information to ensure patient safety, and a more efficient, scalable P2P process.
Innovation has been a key element of MMC’s DNA since day one. It’s behind the value-based procurement models and strategies we’re using to achieve better sourcing outcomes. It’s driving our focus on bringing exciting, new products to the market, supporting domestic production of PPE, and creating jobs in Ontario and Canada. It’s also helping us develop programs that are addressing critical pain points in health care, such as the impact of manufacturer supply disruptions on hospital staff and their patients.
The evolution of our capabilities and processes has allowed MMC to take an active leadership role throughout the pandemic in the sourcing and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Province of Ontario. Our Clinical Team established and oversees comprehensive quality assurance protocols for those procurement efforts to ensure all PPE meets rigid standards to safeguard our frontline workers, first responders and care providers.
However, the true yardstick by which we measure our success is the sheer number of organizations that have placed their trust in us since we amalgamated in June 2017. Mohawk Medbuy has grown from 31 Members to 50 – providing procurement and other back-office services to hundreds of Canadian hospitals and other health care organizations. That growth translates into more than $375M in new annual spend that we’ve harmonized through one, efficient contract process.
We’ve grown in other important ways, as well. With our recent acquisition of a national GPO, we’ve added capital equipment and food/nutrition procurement to our service lines. MMC is also extending the value of our large-scale contracts to community partners on Ontario Health Teams to support continuity of patient care.
Throughout our four-year journey, Mohawk Medbuy has been at the leading edge of the significant consolidation and collaboration taking place in the health sector – and we expect that to accelerate. Thank you to all our Members from coast to coast for your support along the way and the confidence you place in us every day.
How time flies.
Tony DiEmanuele
President & CEO
Mohawk Medbuy