HealthTrust Performance GroupSM announced today that Jocelyn Bradshaw, SVP of Strategic Sourcing and Tonya Goad, Ethics & Compliance Officer, have joined the Joint Forced Labor Working Group (“Working Group”) formed by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prevent, identify and combat the use of forced labor in the international healthcare supply chain.
This Working Group brings leaders from across sectors together to develop tools and resources that will assist in preventing, identifying and addressing forced labor and human trafficking in supply chain, which source products globally. These tools will include online training modules and curriculum to help educate front-line workers on warning signs; collaborative meetings; and the ongoing development of information memoranda, fact sheets, roundtables and webinars as new information becomes available around human trafficking and its impacts on health and human service systems.
“The COVID pandemic has brought more transparency to the global healthcare supply chain than ever before, but trafficking is still a critical issue the healthcare industry must continue to address,” said Jocelyn Bradshaw, SVP of Strategic Sourcing. “In order to continue to combat these problems, the industry needs heightened transparency across suppliers and purchasers.”
“This is important work and we feel strongly about making efforts to prevent forced labor and human rights violations in healthcare supply chains, because it is the right thing to do,” said Tonya Goad, HealthTrust Ethics & Compliance Officer. “HealthTrust is honored to be leading this charge, alongside many like-minded industry changemakers, as part of this Working Group.”
Serving approximately 1,800 member hospitals and 62,000 non-acute healthcare facilities across the U.S. puts HealthTrust and its members in a unique position to help end human trafficking in the international healthcare supply chain. As a healthcare performance improvement organization and supply chain resource, HealthTrust prohibits human rights violations in all facets of supplier operations, including raw materials and manufacturing.
