About Us
The Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) is a member-led, non-profit consortium building the standard for healthcare supply chain resiliency.
- HIRC transforms fragmented expectations into sourcing-ready signals, standardized diagnostics, and deployable tools that providers, suppliers, and partners use in real procurement decisions.
- The result: faster sourcing, clearer supplier comparability, reduced duplicate diligence, and stronger alignment with continuity of care.
- By combining standards, credentials, and secure data sharing, HIRC turns resiliency from a concept into an operational capability across the healthcare ecosystem.
Mission
Build and operationalize standards, tools, and credentials that make resiliency measurable, comparable, and deployable across healthcare supply chains.
Vision
A transparent, resilient supply chain aligned with continuity-of-care objectives.
How we work
- Convene. Providers, suppliers, GPOs, and partners co-design standards.
- Define. Healthcare-specific diagnostics and scoring rubrics.
- Deliver. Convert standards into deployable tools: playbooks, Vault, badges, and Academy programming.
- Scale. Publish credentials and a canonical, sourcing-ready dataset for procurement use.
What we deliver
- Resiliency & Transparency Badges. Standardized, publishable credentials for suppliers.
- HIRC Vault. Secure one-to-many data sharing.
- Diagnostics & Playbooks. Assessor summaries, scorecards, and remediation guidance.
- HIRC Academy & Councils. Learning, pilots, and governance that operationalize standards.
Thank you to our continuing founding members:
Providers: AdventHealth, BJC HealthCare, Corewell Health, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, and Stanford HealthCare.
Suppliers: Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Medtronic, and Stryker.
HIRC is uniquely positioned to create a common place for suppliers, providers, GPOs, industry forums, and academics to work in transparent and open dialog. This is how we collectively will change and improve healthcare resiliency.
Tom Harvieux
CSCO BJC Health
2026 Board of Directors
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Scott Blankenship
Executive Director, Order Fulfillment and Service Optimization
BJC Health
Geoff Gates
Senior Director, SCSS P2P & Technology
Cleveland Clinic
Noah Hechimovich
Regional Vice President of Supply Chain Operations & Implementation
CommonSpirit Health
Andrea Poulopoulos
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
Corewell Health
Jeromie Atkinson
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Intermountain Health
Eric Tichy
Division Chair
Mayo Clinic
Tom Beilby
Director, Strategy & Transformation
Medtronic
René Gurdián Jr.
Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain Finance and Strategy
Ochsner Health
Marcus Lumpuy
Vice President, US National Account Management Lead
Pfizer
Dustin Slodov
Associate Vice President
Rush University Medical Center
Heather Hanson
Vice President, National Accounts, Advanced Wound Management
Smith+Nephew
Masai Sung
Senior Director
Stanford Health Care
Kevin Steed
Vice President/General Manager
Stryker
Kyle MacKinnon
Senior Director, Operational Excellence
Premier, Inc.
Mittal Sutaria
Senior Vice President, Contract & Program Services
Vizient
2026 Officers
Geoff Gates
Chair
Cleveland Clinic
Dustin Slodov
Chair-Elect
RUSH
Jeremy How
Treasurer
B Braun
Marcus Lumpuy
Secretary
Pfizer
2026 Supplier Advisory Council
Mike Cazzaniga
Director of Strategic Accounts
VIVIT Supply
John Clarke
Director Global Deliver Value Chain Risk Management
Johnson & Johnson
Travis DeWolfe
Supply Chain Solutions Manager
Cook Medical
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Hilarie Letson
Executive, Business Continuity & Resiliency
GE Healthcare
Tanvi Narang
Sr. Director, Procurement– Resilience, Strategy Execution & Governance
BD
Gerard Perret
Vice President
Stryker
Peter Saviola
Vice President
Medline
Lars Thording
Vice President, Marketing & Public Affairs
Innovative Health
Staff
Jesse Schafer
Executive Director
Tarek Alhariri
Senior Director, Industry Assessments & Innovation
