How Group Purchasing Organizations Helped Save Our Health Care Supply Chain From COVID-19

As historians look back on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when medical-grade masks were nowhere to be found and demand for ventilators in emergency departments skyrocketed, the critical role of the nation’s group purchasing organizations (GPOs) cannot be overlooked. When COVID-19 rates began to spike, America’s GPOs sifted through thousands of offerings from known, and sometimes fraudulent, suppliers, to ensure hospitals and nursing homes had a steady supply of gloves, gowns, masks, and
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