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Marisa Farabaugh, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at AdventHealth, and Yolanda Redmond, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Vanderbilt Health, lead two of the highest-ranked supply chains in healthcare. AdventHealth placed first on the Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2025, and Vanderbilt Health also earned a place on the list.
We brought them together for this conversation about what it takes to keep improving at that level.
Farabaugh and Redmond discuss how supply chain teams stay connected to patient care and how the function is shifting from a traditional cost center to a more strategic role, as well as how AI is changing the way people work. “I think folks think about AI as a one-and-done type thing,” Farabaugh says. “And the way I think about it is, it’s a new way of thinking about continuous improvement work.”