Carolyn is a graduate of Seton Hall University, School of Nursing and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She has been employed at UMDNJ-University Hospital since May 1978 as a professional registered nurse and has held various nursing and administrative leadership positions. In the role as Director, UH Materials Management there are significant responsibilities for new product and technology implementation and clinical and operational process improvement initiatives within the entire health care organization. Carolyn has always had an open door policy. Should you have any questions or comments her office is located in UH, A-214, office phone #, (973)972-3597, pager #, (973)318-4377, cell phone #, (201)407-3586 or you can contact her by email. She looks forward to working with the University community.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of UH Materials Management is to procure and distribute medical surgical products and related services required for the daily operations of University Hospital and hospital related clinical areas on the Newark Campus. These areas include the Doctor’s Office Complex, EMS (Emergency Medical System), School of Nursing Clinical Laboratory, ICPH, Dental School and Occupational Medicine, Positron Emission Tomagraphy or PET in ADMC-building 5 and Ambulatory Care Services Practices. These activities also include management of Perioperative Services inventory warehouse.
UH Materials Management operates twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week via scheduling of Senior Material Handlers personnel within three shift intervals.
This operation also manages the distribution of specialty bed rentals and serves as the point of reference for cost savings initiatives throughout the hospital through active participation in Perioperative Value Analysis, Nursing Product Task Force, Operation Product Task Force and Executive Product Approval Committees.
Core Services
General Stores Warehouse
The primary functions of UH Materials Management are to procure and distribute disposable medical surgical products, maintain an adequate supply of inventory to maintain and fill departmental requisitions. Cardinal Health and other contracted vendors ship medical surgical products on a daily basis- Monday through Friday. These products are received, inspected, processed and placed into inventory using FIFO (First In First Out) methodology.
The procurement function is accomplished via utilization of MediClick, an inventory management system which provides the mechanism to transmit a purchase order to the established medical surgical distributor and/or vendor based upon usage and established reorder points. MediClick is the perpetual inventory system utilized to document department delivery locations, department indexes, product issues, product cost debits, usage and new product additions. The system generates monthly charges which correlate to inter-department transfers for products issued during identified monthly time periods.
UH Materials Management provides services to all in-patient clinical departments and out-patient practices in the Ambulatory Care arena and maintains products available to provide clinical services to patients ranging from the newborn to the geriatric population.
PAR levels
In-patient care units are restocked by Senior Material Handlers utilizing PAR levels established in MediClick. The Senior Material Handlers have assigned daily delivery responsibilities to facilitate feedback and collaboration with customers. Additionally on a daily basis one Senior Material Handler serves as a dispatcher. This responsibility includes manning the department telephone, addressing walk-in customers and any STAT requests for medical surgical product.
Linen Distribution
UH Materials Management is responsible to receive daily linen supply from the contracted vendor, Angelica Textile, Inc. as well as the retrieval of soiled linen from end user departments.
