Owens & Minor Presents “Better Together” Diversity Award

Owens & Minor presented its Better Together Diversity Award to Jackson Health System on Wednesday, May 29th, during the Jackson Health Public Health Trust Board of Trustees meeting in Miami. The annual award is presented to an Owens & Minor customer through a nomination and selection process for noteworthy goal attainment for diversity supplier success.

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Jackson Health System is a nonprofit academic medical system offering world-class care to any person who walks through its doors. As a diversity-sensitive provider, the organization has a long-standing commitment to the economic inclusion of Miami-Dade County certified small local businesses. In an effort led by Rosa Costanzo, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer and Amber Lawhorn, Director of Jackson’s Small Business Enterprise Program, Jackson leveraged Owens & Minor outstanding strengths in supplier diversity. The goal was to increase the diversity of vendors within the supply chain with a focus on historically underutilized businesses, including minority, women, veteran and service disabled veteran owned businesses. As a result, Jackson achieved 30 percent growth in their diversity spend over the past four years with the Owens and Minor contract.

“The Jackson Health System team had a clear vision and strong commitment to growing their spend with small and diverse enterprises. This empowered us to better leverage our supply chain resources and relationships to achieve favorable outcomes,” said Edward A. Pesicka, Owens & Minor President & CEO. “As the Better Together Diversity Award winner, Jackson Health System has set the bar high and is most deserving as they embraced diversity and inclusion best practices to achieve significant results.”

“We are proud of the business environment we have built – one where every business, regardless of size, is given equal access to bid on our projects,” said Carlos A. Migoya, President and CEO of Jackson Health System. “We facilitate nondiscriminatory business relationships with the goal of promoting, increasing, and improving the diversity of firms that we hire to do various jobs across the health system.”