Strong Ties with Supply Chain Manager Supports Departmental Success


Foodservice directors and department staff need to have strong relationships with so many administrators and leaders within a healthcare facility or system, however perhaps one of the most critical relationships is with your Supply Chain leader. This relationship can play a key role in your department’s success, and its ability to remain self-operated. Hear from Kevin Vos, VP of Environmental Services and Nutrition Services and his Supply Chain Senior Vice President, Bill Selles, at Corewell Health on how they have forged a relationship for success. They will explore the role each of them play to positively impact not only the nutrition services department, but the facility as a whole.
Kevin and Bill will provide a detailed look at their working relationship, how best to manage vendor relations and the relationship and goals of your Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), and how they work in tandem to accomplish the Nutrition Services department goals. They’ll share specific real-world examples of where the relationship can be leveraged, making it so the facility can feel more prepared in combating economic stress, meet financial goals, and fend off contractor bids.
Learning Objectives: 
  1. Understand the importance of the relationship between the supply chain manager and nutrition services leader and the role each should play.
  2. Identify areas the supply chain manager and nutrition services leader can work together to ensure departmental success.
  3. Understand areas where and when working with your supply chain manager can be beneficial to your department.
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  • Duration:  1 hour 
  • Accreditation: 1.0 CEU - AND & ANFP 
  • Type: Monthly Webinar

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Course Activities

MEET THE SPEAKERS:

Bill Selles
Corewell Health
Bill Selles is Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, for Corewell Health, a $14 billion not-for-profit integrated health system in Michigan. He is an experienced leader in system-level thinking who aligns people and strategy to create competitive advantage in large, complex organizations.  

Bill is responsible for all aspects of supply chain, including procurement, operations, clinical supply chain, supplier performance management, and technology & analytics. He is charged with leveraging the Corewell Health system supply base to help the organization realize its vision to deliver personalized health made simple, affordable, equitable and exceptional. Under his leadership, supply chain has saved over $100M, centralized procurement activity, launched a supply chain analytics department, and created a system-level value analysis structure. Additional, supply chain at Corewell Health is breaking new ground with driving outcomes-based partnerships with suppliers and has co-founded the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) with the Mayo Clinic.  

This work has contributed to Corewell Health receiving the Gartner Healthcare Top 25 award each year from 2018 to 2022, most recently achieving the 3rd overall ranking among health systems.
Kevin L. Vos
Corewell Health
Kevin Vos is the Vice President of EVS, NS & Hospitality for the Corewell Health System.  He is responsible for the strategic planning as well as the oversight of high quality patient and guest services functions across our nationally awarded integrated health system.   Whether Kevin is concentrating on disrupting the typical “institutional” food chain or coming up with unique solutions to develop and grow the workforce of the future, Kevin’s goal is to improve health by putting people first thousands of times daily.

Most recently, Kevin was awarded the spotlight award from the Association of Healthcare Foodservice (AHF).  The AHF Spotlight Award is presented to members who have enhanced operations through technology, program development, implementation, innovation and/or creative use of managing finances. Kevin is very proud of the entire Nutrition Services team at Corewell for this recognition.

How Deep is Your Leadership Bench? A Conversation About Leadership Potential & Skill Development

The great resignation, ongoing staffing shortages, and the pandemic depleted leadership ranks. Many healthcare foodservice leadership jobs have gone unfilled for far too long, and the candidate pool is limited. So, what can a healthcare foodservice leader do to bolster their leadership bench? Join Dave Reeves and Julie Jones, past AHF Presidents, for a leadership development conversation about recognizing potential leaders, developing your team’s leadership skills, and identifying processes that help foster leadership learning in your organization.

Learning Objectives: 
  1. Identify behaviors that signal leadership readiness
  2. Evaluate your leadership skill development practices
  3. Describe processes that build your leadership skills and build the bench strength of your team
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  • Duration:  1 hour 
  • Accreditation: 1.0 CEU - AND (through 1/9/2024) & ANFP (through 12/31/2025)
  • Type: Monthly Webinar
AHF Members; In order to watch the webinar, please sign in. 
Interested in watching the webinar recording and earning CEUs? 
On demand recordings of our webinars are available exclusively for AHF members. Join today to have access to our monthly webinars and Coffee Talks and start earning CEUs on your schedule. 

Visit AHF's website for more information about membership and how to join. 

Course Activities

MEET THE SPEAKERS:

Julie Jones, MS, RDN, LD
Ruck-Shockey Associates
Julie serves as the Director of Performance Learning for Ruck-Shockey Associates. She creates a variety of learning and skill development activities for operational leaders. Her recent interests are developing/evaluating job roles and functions for all employee levels and department leadership organization structures to align the team and clarify expectations.

She spent fifteen years as the Director of Food and Nutrition Services at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center before retiring in 2018. Julie was awarded the IFMA Silver Plate for Healthcare Foodservice in 2015.

Julie also serves as an adjunct faculty member at The Ohio State University in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the College of Education and Human Ecology.
David Reeves, MBA
Lee Health
Dave Reeves is the System Director of Food & Nutrition Services at Lee Health. He leads the operations for their five-hospital system based in the Fort Myers, Florida, area. He is responsible for the foodservice operations, including all retail operations, catering, patient meal service, clinical nutrition services, and their advanced production facility. 

In addition to operations, Dave is leading the master plan for the foodservice division to transition to on-demand dining service. Additionally, he is leading the design and development of foodservice operations for the Lee Memorial Hospital replacement campus. He is a proponent of developing teams and advocating for self-operated healthcare foodservice as industry best practice.  

Dave is a Past President of the Association for Healthcare Foodservice and the 2020  Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. He has held leadership positions at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and Edward Elmhurst Health System in the west suburbs of Chicago. 

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