- 91
- Episodes
- 70
- Transcribed
- 19
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Taking The Supply Chain Pulse
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.
- Publisher
- St. Onge
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Mar 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
70 of 91 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026
What If Value Analysis Became The Front Door To Better Healthcare Decisions

24 Sept 2026
Care Is Moving And Supply Chain Must Move Too

10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Nurse To Supply Chain Leader
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From Nurse To Supply Chain Leader
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In that environment, you're not competing with males. You have just got females and the nuns teach you to be very responsible for yourselves and to manage your own destiny. So one thing about being retired, as you can probably imagine, is you have an opportunity to be very reflective about what happened in your past life. And as you think through some of these influences, it really does color things for you. And also in high school, Choices at that point for women. And, you know, I'm feeling a little bit like a dinosaur here because we saw a lot of change in our lifetime. But the choices then for women were nursing, teaching and secretarial and not much more more than that. […]
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- Bob Yokel
- Karen Conway
- Gail Kovacs
- Reuben Pillet
- Tom Derek
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 10 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 71
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