PWH announces John Sasen Memorial Scholarship Recipient
PWH announced the recipient of the 2022 John Sasen Memorial Scholarship, Saran Ross, Sr. Manager, RX Sales Administration at McKesson. She is dedicated to improving, diversifying and providing equity in the health experience of others and is excited to join the PWH network. Congratulations Saran, on your well-deserved scholarship.
Several women were considered for this award that honors someone in the healthcare industry that is an inspiring individual, demonstrates leadership and is an ambassador to the industry. The scholarship is awarded to one woman each year and includes a one-year PWH membership as well as attendance to the HIDA Executive Conference.
Yankee Alliance and The Claflin Company establish exclusive distribution agreement
Yankee Alliance and The Claflin Company have established an exclusive distribution agreement to provide Yankee Members access to Claflin’s wide range of logistics programs along with enhanced savings opportunities for Yankee aggregated contracts. The agreement, which will continue to add aggregations opportunities, will aim to provide Yankee members with the most aggressive customized contracting options in the industry.
“This agreement will allow Yankee Members to achieve further savings opportunities and explore sourcing diversity in the post pandemic supply chain. Claflin is very excited to be partnered with such a forward-thinking organization like Yankee.” Alex Caldwell, Claflin VP Sales & Marketing.
Midmark evolves and expands training program with new leadership hire
Midmark Corp., the only clinical environmental design company providing medical, dental and veterinary solutions that enable a better experience at the point of care, announced the hiring of Jaclyn Smith as director of education and development. The hiring signals an evolution of the current program, which will expand and take on a larger role within the company, advancing Midmark’s clinical and non-clinical training for Midmark teammates and customers.
Capitalizing on her robust understanding of the market landscape and educational programming, Smith will develop and provide oversight of Midmark’s clinical education, sales, training, and customer engagement resources. She will also work to ensure Midmark stays current with industry best practices and develop a network of external resources, including industry leaders and peer groups, to build content that augments the curriculum.
Additionally, Smith will support the investment in team member development to strengthen this critical component of the organization’s continued success by partnering with business leaders and Human Resources to proactively identify and respond to organizational development opportunities with solutions based on best practices in organizational development.
With more than 20 years of experience in leading and implementing training and learning programs, Smith most recently designed the first enterprise learning strategy aligning learning with strategic outcomes for the 711/Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Before that, she led a 32-member
performance consulting group responsible for the design and delivery of corporate university programs and services, which in 2019, was ranked 16th nationally, for approximately 5,000 staff members at CareSource.
Smith will join a well-established professional education team that has been transforming Midmark’s training offering into a program that is informative, engaging and encourages attendees to apply what they have learned. The program takes a blended approach that features many informative and interactive components, including video, e-learning modules, live presentations, Q&A sessions, hands-on training and gamification modules.
The program is used to ensure Midmark teammates understand the patient and provider experience and how medical, dental and animal health customers can use certain equipment and technologies to enhance the quality of care. For Midmark customers, the training program is focused on helping them understand how best to integrate our offerings into their facilities and workflows to ensure a better care experience and better patient outcomes.