Ryder, the transportation company that specializes in truck rentals and leasing, continues to accelerate into home healthcare with supply chain and logistics support. As it hones in on the market, there are no plans to hit the brakes anytime soon.
The company currently is working with a large global kidney dialysis provider to deliver supplies to clinics, <a href="https://healthylife7.com/hca-workers-at-osceola-hospital-call-for-better-pay-and-benefits/” title=”HCA workers at Osceola hospital call for better pay and benefits”>hospital systems and healthcare providers, said Cherie Brinkerhoff, senior vice president of operations at Ryder Healthcare.
“Now that we have it, it’s this proven case and we can show other potential customers how it can benefit them,” she said in an interview with McKnight’s Home Care Daily Pulse. “I’m convinced and confident we absolutely will grow.”
While it intends to grow its client base, Ryder is no healthcare newbie. It has been serving the healthcare industry for nearly 20 years and has experience supporting home-based healthcare models dating back to at least 2007, the company said. But the company sees growing opportunity as home health and hospital-at-home programs continue to expand.
“What the technology really does is allow these healthcare providers to truly understand at the detail level where their costs are at any given time in the supply chain and where that becomes a benefit,” Brinkerhoff said.
Ryder’s expertise and capabilities, which have been developed in healthcare and other industries, can be used to enhance a provider’s supply chain, she added. This could ultimately improve the services provided to patients while simultaneously reducing costs, Brinkerhoff said
The company’s end-to-end technologies include warehousing, inventory forecasting, home delivery and reverse logistics, such as retrieving and dispositioning expired products, Brinkerhoff said. It also allows customers and patients to see everything along the supply chain and help differentiate the company from its competitors that have capabilities in transportation or warehousing, but rarely both, Brinkerhoff explained.
While Ryder is only working with one home health provider right now, expanding to more companies and individual home care agencies is “on the horizon,” Brinkerhoff said. She added that the company delivers a wide range of products in homecare, including the liquid used in dialysis machines, catheters and other consumable supplies.
As more people want to age in place, the industry is thinking about home healthcare and its delivery differently, Brinkerhoff said.
“We’re a disruptor,” said Brinkerhoff. “We are creating a path for healthcare to do things differently, better, smarter, faster, more innovative and giving them back the time and what they need to spend more time with patients and less time behind the scenes.”
