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St. Onge’s Healthcare Hall of Famer and industry icon, Fred Crans, chats with leaders from all areas of healthcare to discuss the issues of today's- threats, challenges and emerging trends and technologies in a lighthearted and engaging manner. ENGINEERING A BETTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM We provide comprehensive planning and design services to develop world-class facilities and highly effective support services operations. Our capabilities in hospital supply chain consulting include applied industrial engineering, lean methodologies, systems thinking, and operations research to enable improved patient care and staff satisfaction. We are proud to have worked with over 100 hospitals, including 18 of the top 22 in the US, utilizing diverse design strategies, post-construction implementation, and change management.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSt. Onge’s Healthcare Hall of Famer and industry icon, Fred Crans, chats with leaders from all areas of healthcare to discuss the issues of today's- threats, challenges and emerging trends and technologies in a lighthearted and engaging manner. ENGINEERING A BETTER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM We provide comprehensive planning and design services to develop world-class facilities and highly effective support services operations.
Taking The Supply Chain Pulse is hosted by St. Onge. The show has published 91 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Medical Equipment Planning That Works" (22 October 2026, 31 minutes), "What If Value Analysis Became The Front Door To Better Healthcare Decisions" (8 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Care Is Moving And Supply Chain Must Move Too" (24 September 2026, 34 minutes).
Taking The Supply Chain Pulse publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 91 episodes.
Booking probability for Taking The Supply Chain Pulse is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Taking The Supply Chain Pulse requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Taking The Supply Chain Pulse's contact route on record: verified email.
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St. Onge hosts Taking The Supply Chain Pulse, a business podcast with 91 episodes published.
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Episode #1
Hospital projects do not fail because people do not care. They fail because the right questions get asked too late, after walls are drawn, power is set, and the budget is already committed. That’s why we brought on Rich...
Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Value analysis can feel like a never-ending queue of new product requests, urgent conversions, and “can’t you just get a better price” demands. But when we treat value analysis as the front end of the healthcare supply...
Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
Care is moving farther and faster than most health systems are organized to support and the supply chain is right in the blast zone. We sit down with returning guest Karen Conway to talk through what she’s working on...
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We sit down with Bellwether League inductee Gail Kovacs to trace her path from biology and the lab into nursing, healthcare supply chain leadership, and hospital administration in Cleveland. We talk about the moments...
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We talk with Dr. Reuben Pillet, Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, about why healthcare needs “unreasonable” thinking to make real progress. We also map a future where AI, automation...
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Capital equipment can make a hospital grow or quietly drain millions through rushed buys, weak justification, and devices that end up parked in a hallway. We want fewer surprises, fewer spreadsheets, and a capital...
Episode #19
If your supply chain analytics feel shaky, clinicians are probably sensing it too and that’s where savings go to die. We sit down with Steve Kinsella, owner of Data Leverage Group, to get blunt about the healthcare...
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We step away from the daily hospital storeroom grind and zoom out to the bigger idea of supply chain design with Taylor Wilkerson from Design for Life. We talk about using design thinking to rebuild public health supply...
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We talk with HonorHealth Strategic Sourcing Program Director Matthew Mitchell about why healthcare capital is uniquely hard to manage and why demand for care creates real pricing pressure. We dig into practical ways to...
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<p><b>Encore Episode:</b> We talk with sterile processing expert Kim Jones about why central sterile is the hidden driver of operating room performance and patient safety. This conversation is still highly relevant as...
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<p>We sit down with Scott Becker of Becker’s Healthcare to talk about what his daily view of the industry reveals about closures, staffing gaps, and the real-world squeeze on access to care. We also dig into why great...
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<p>We talk with David Kirshner about why healthcare CFOs are facing extreme margin pressure and why supply chain has become a strategic tool for survival. We map out how to find savings beyond clinical supplies by using...
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<p>A lot of supply chain leaders can talk strategy. Far fewer can trace it back to what happens when a patient is on the table and a team cannot afford a single shortcut. That’s why this conversation with Joseph Carr...
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<p>We sit down with Rick Barlow to unpack why the Bellwether League Foundation exists and what it takes to honor healthcare supply chain leaders the right way. We trace the Hall of Fame’s origin story, the real world...
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<p>We’ve lived through a supply chain time warp in healthcare: from clipboards and carbon-copy purchase orders to scanners, dashboards, and automation. Fred sits down with Tracy Cleveland, VP of Supply Chain at Munson...
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<p>We talk with Joe Colonna about how value analysis in the healthcare supply chain creates better decisions by balancing clinical outcomes with financial reality. We also reflect on Bill McFaul's legacy and why trust...
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<p>We explore how a retiring SVP and a new SVP engineered a seamless leadership handoff at a national health system, turning succession into a strategic advantage. Mentorship, team alignment, and C-suite credibility...
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<p>We explore why AI cannot replace judgment, how curated data and sharp questions prevent elegant mistakes, and what separates strategic leadership from transactional management. The conversation centers on healthcare...
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<p>We explore how Cleveland Clinic scales supply chain excellence across 26 hospitals and hundreds of sites through daily safety huddles, rapid standardization, and honest system-wide assessments. Sarh Charai shares...
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<p>We trace a practical playbook for transforming a hospital supply chain after major acquisitions, from stakeholder listening to a four-pillar strategy that ties clinical choice to operational excellence. A CSC launch...
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Wall Street Journal best-selling author, speaker, three-time SEC Coach of the Year, head coach at University of Kentucky women's basketball, University of Houston Women's Basketball
managing director of talent strategy and people experience, International Council on Women's Sports
Founder, Publisher, Chief Content Officer, Becker’s HealthCare and Becker’s Hospital Review
Executive VP, Healthcare, St. Onge Company
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