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Health System C-Suite Considerations: Exploring Innovative Partnerships with Your Distributor

Three key benefits of exploring nontraditional partnerships with your distributor to achieve more.

By Heather Easterling

Date

January 27, 2025

Read Time

2 minutes

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As a health system C-Suite executive, you may be tasked with navigating today’s unique challenges and creating a customized plan for your hospital that helps to ensure financial stability and the ability to continue delivering exceptional patient care. Much like a patient care plan, this should involve close collaboration between all stakeholders and external partners as well. But in an area as complex as the health system pharmacy – which can generate critical revenue for your health system at a time its needed most – you may need more than a traditional consultant. As McKinsey and Company , exploring innovative and nontraditional partnerships with your distributor can help:

 
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 Identify new revenue opportunities

 
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 Insulate your health system from certain financial risks

 
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 Elevate the patient experience

 

At McKesson, our Professional & Advisory Services (P&AS) team is committed to helping you achieve more for the business of pharmacy with our experts’ strong clinical and business industry backgrounds, unique problem-solving acumen, and holistic approach to mitigating your health system’s most important pain points. Learn more about the benefits of partnering with our P&AS advisors here, or contact us directly at pas@mckesson.com.

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