{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Christine Donaldson: Moving the Needle on Sustainable Procurement","description":" Advocating for change and collaboration in our healthcare supply chain is part of Christine Donaldson\u2019s purpose, this shines through in her leadership approach. Her team\u2019s advocacy work is reflected with action as HealthPRO Canada recently became an Aboriginal Procurement Champion with the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB), thus making strides towards a more inclusive healthcare supply chain and system. \u201cPart of our Indigenous journey and reconciliation of where we\u2019re heading into the future is to do it through business partnerships,\u201d says Christine when explaining the importance of collaborating with CCAB. Christine also shares her leadership approach centred around collaboration, transparency, openness, and meeting people at the level they\u2019re at. And collaboration is a big part of the work Christine and her team are doing on moving toward a more sustainable procurement model. Don\u2019t miss our special 70th episode of Healthcare Change Makers! It\u2019s a great chance to hear from Christine about how HealthPRO is focusing on sustainable practices, their strategies to ensure constant supply for its hospital members, and Christine\u2019s advice to healthcare organizations on implementing a collaborative culture! Quotables: \u201cSustainable products have always been an interest of mine, how do we really take the weight of the system, be more climate friendly, look at greening our healthcare environment, it\u2019s always fascinating to me from back to my clinical days.\u201d - CD \u201cMy professional clinical background has been unbelievably important in how I\u2019ve taken different leadership roles in my career.\u201d - CD \u201cIn the end, we look different on the outside but we\u2019re really the same and that\u2019s really that spirit of getting at the ground floor, really getting to know each other goes a long way towards that healthy new world we\u2019re building for the future.\u201d - CD \u201cI want all Canadian patients to have the same access, the best products, the highest quality, and how can we make that happen? Some of that is organic and getting the right people together.\u201d - CD \u201cThe legacy of any issues or mistakes is you move forward, and you create the stronger and better systems moving forward.\u201d - CD \u201cIn your career you want to have a purpose for the greater good of the system or greater good of what you do, and I think what drives us is we have an important role in the whole machinery of how things operate.\u201d - CD \u201cWe\u2019re using procurement as a gateway to create some better practices.\u201d - CD \u201cToo often we start off with contributing challenges, problems, and issues, I like to flip it on its head and say let\u2019s talk about some of the positive first and get to a place of where we can really understand each other.\u201d - CD \u201cYou learn as much from the person you\u2019re mentoring as much as they learn from you, it\u2019s a two-way street and it\u2019s part of that very healthy way of challenging each other and dialoguing.\u201d - CD Mentioned in this Episode: HealthPRO Canada U of T Pharmacy Dr. Fiona Miller Dr. Zubin Austin Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) Access More Interviews with Healthcare Leaders at HIROC.com\/podcast Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and X, and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your favourite podcasts. Email us at Communications@HIROC.com. ","author_name":"Healthcare Change Makers","author_url":"http:\/\/www.hiroc.com","html":"