MedShare Strategic Plan
Mission
MedShare bridges the gap between surplus and need to improve healthcare and the environment by recovering surplus medical supplies, instruments and equipment and redistributing those vital products to hospitals and clinics in medically underserved communities.
MedShare is non-sectarian so that it can provide services without regard to the religion, political affiliation, race or culture of its material contributors or recipients.
Vision
MedShare’s vision is to have a measurable impact in improving healthcare delivery in targeted medically underserved areas by partnering with organizations that are delivering healthcare to the poor and where MedShare believes that it can have the greatest impact.
The ultimate vision is that the MedShare model will enable effective and efficient reclaiming and redistribution of substantially all realistically useable surplus medical supplies, instruments and equipment in the United States. This will be accomplished through the MedShare organization and through influencing best practices among similar organizations.
Strategy
MedShare’s model is based on shipping only what recipient’s request, thus assuring that they receive only what they need. The product selection process, including the real time, online inventory and ordering system allows recipients to order exactly what they need. Sourcing products from manufacturers and distributors as well as hospital barrel collections enables MedShare to provide a wide variety of items.
MedShare’s strategy for achieving this ambitious vision is to fine-tune the model in Atlanta, maximize the potential of the greater Atlanta region and then expand the model to other areas of the country. The primary avenue for expanding the model will be thorough a national network of large regional distribution centers, guided and supported by a national office. The national office will provide selected shared services such as finance, HR, IT management, recipient relations, freight contracting, logistics and marketing. MedShare will also collaborate with other medical supply recovery organizations to establish operating standards and share best practices.
Connecting donors with our mission is the heart of MedShare’s fund development strategy. We will place an increased effort on creating partnerships with national corporations and foundations to secure multiyear grants that will enable us to make repeat shipments to recipients, provide greater technical support and thus, have a higher impact. In addition, we will actively pursue partnerships with organizations (NGOs) and Health Ministries that provide healthcare to the medically underserved to be their product provider. We will continue to solicit container sponsorships from individuals, religious groups, community organizations and other friends of MedShare.
Fundamental elements of MedShare’s internal strategy are:
- Focus on quality of shipments rather than merely quantity of product shipped. This includes:
· Matching shipment contents to recipient needs and abilities
· Filtering out (not accepting or discarding) products with low incremental
value
· Soliciting donations of high demand items
· Sorting and packing products in ways that make them most usable for
recipients (descriptions, degree of specificity, counts)
recipients (descriptions, degree of specificity, counts)
· Providing technical support
- Strive for efficiency wherever possible to be able to maximize impact without sacrificing quality.
- Make continuous improvements in every aspect of the organization.
- Develop an efficient volunteer corps in order to minimize costs and build allegiances.
- Achieve financial sustainability through a combination of partnerships, sponsorships, major gifts, grants and individual donations with a focus on multi- year grants.
- Make the Western Region location a success without endangering Atlanta, and expand to new, targeted locations.
Fundamental elements of MedShare’s external strategy are:
- Develop collaborative partnerships with highly credible organizations that provide healthcare or those who have identified and pre-qualified recipient hospitals and clinics.
- Target recipients in selected geographic areas for whom repeat shipments of donated supplies can have a significant impact on their ability to deliver healthcare.
- Measure recipient satisfaction to guide process improvements and evaluate impact.
- Develop strong and lasting partnerships with U.S. healthcare systems and corporations.
- Solicit product donations that will provide a wide variety of items and also, large amounts of the most needed items.
- Avoid undermining local suppliers in the recipient areas.
- Collaborate with other organizations like MedShare to achieve best practices and to minimize redundancies.
Core Skills
MedShare’s model is based on an acute focus on mission effectiveness and quality control, and aims to ensure that one hundred percent of the medical materials we ship are needed and can be used. The critical skills needed to execute that model are:
· Financial sustainability
· Sourcing product
· Selecting recipients
· Matching shipments to recipient’s needs and abilities
· Evaluating effectiveness
· Volunteer recruitment and management
· Inventory management
· Logistics
· Maintaining quality standards
· Sorting
· Repairing and preparing equipment
· Packaging
· Packing containers
Updated 7/1/2010
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