title: Teaming up to take down costs.
abstract: By linking specialty-specific clinical teams with supply chain experts, Saint Luke's Health System established cost-containment strategies that align with clinical pathways and create new leverage with vendors. Since the initiative launched in January 2013, Saint Luke's has reduced medical supply costs by more than $6 million. In several instances, physicians have led the way in formulating cost-cutting ideas that exceeded the expectations of supply chain administrators.
authors: Brent W
authors: BW
authors: Beasley
authors: Howard G
authors: HG
authors: Mann
authors: Cole O
authors: CO
authors: Martin
authors: Bonar
authors: B
authors: Menninger
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies