PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Jerry Stracke has over 30 years of health care executive management, consulting and sales experience.
He has managed projects requiring supply chain strategy and operation assessment, supply chain consulting, clinical process improvement and clinical practice guideline implementation, business process improvement, change management, performance measurement, staff development and mentoring, team building and many specialty projects.
Work Portfolio
• Has written a handbook for healthcare organizations to implement Clinical Practice Guidelines, a checklist method for evidence based clinical process improvement. Led several hospital clinical process improvement projects.
• Identified and quantified the amount of time operating room management & staff dedicated to supply chain activities in 500 bed hospital.
• Led transformation of large multi-hospital system decentralized medical ground and air services to an integrated system wide medical transportation business unit.
• Provided executive leadership to develop the mission, vision, strategy, goals and objectives, metrics and implementation plan for a new Supply Chain Shared Service Organization for a multi-hospital system with $2 billion in annual revenues.
• Directed and led the supply chain cost improvement efforts for a nine-hospital network resulting in cost savings of more than $15 million in the first year of operation.
• Led process for eSourcing company selection, created strategy and led eSourcing events to demonstrate eSourcing effectiveness.
• Procurement card implementations for multi-hospital systems.
• Mentored and coached hospital management team for capital negotiations that documented savings in excess of $6 million over two years.
• Led and develop cost improvement proposals, time frames and metrics for initiatives resulting in $9 million savings.
• Supply Chain spend analysis and category management strategy implementation for a $2 billion Integrated Delivery Network.
• Designed and implemented Supply Chain multi-discipline processes and approach for a new 14-hospital Alliance.
• Through interim management leadership and operational assessment, created a strong positive presence for Materials Management within a six-hospital system by bringing better management and advanced Supply Chain strategies and operational expertise.
• Analyzed and set negotiation strategy for pharmacy & medical/surgical distribution contract awards.
• Successfully transitioned a healthcare system’s records and related material to a new records management company. Established system wide retention schedule, plan, policies and procedures based on federal and state regulations and the needs for patient care, research, and administrative legal and compliance purposes.
