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The Hidden Cost of Expired Supplies: Lessons from Hospital Inventory Counts
Find out how GHX Inventory Count specialists found dozens of expired items that amounted to nearly $200,000 worth of inventory at a 2,000-bed health system.
For healthcare provider organizations, large amounts of expired products tend to indicate that the hospital has significant supply chain management challenges. When hospitals aren’t able to determine how much inventory they need, they purchase too many supplies, and often those supplies expire before they can be utilized.