--- title: Hospitals Left Alone When They Need Help The Most | Five To Save description: Everything fell apart at once. Maybe because it was never all that put-together in the first place.  image: https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/pig%20bank%20-%20needle%20orange%20background.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/hospitals-left-alone-when-they-need-help-the-most-five-to-save#main-content) [![Group 1211](https://www.z5inventory.com/hubfs/Group%201211.png)](https://www.z5inventory.com) - [Solutions](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions) - [Z5 Count](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-1) - [Z5 Fixed Asset](https://www.z5inventory.com/solution/fixedassetcount) - [Z5 Analytics](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0) - [Z5 Optimization](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2021-0-0) - [Who We Serve](https://www.z5inventory.com/solutions-2022) - Company - [About Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact-2021) - [Contact Us](https://www.z5inventory.com/contact) - [Careers](https://www.z5inventory.com/careers) - [Blog](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog) - [Login](https://prod.z5development.com/) # Hospitals Left Alone When They Need Help The Most | Five To Save [Alex Diamond](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/author/alex-diamond) 1/19/2021 ![The Z5 Piggy Bank wields a needle. Probably not one filled with COVID-19 vaccine, because those have been mismanaged at every step. ](https://www.z5inventory.com/hs-fs/hubfs/pig%20bank%20-%20needle%20orange%20background.jpg?width=1200&name=pig%20bank%20-%20needle%20orange%20background.jpg) It would be pretty hard to argue that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been flawless. This isn't just a failing of healthcare administration. Or supply chain. Or government. Or cybersecurity.  Everything fell apart at once. Maybe because it was never all that put-together in the first place.  Let's look at some news about the ongoing cascade of failures and some advice about what we can do - in all our various departments - to stem the flow of mistakes and misinformation.  1. At the same time that [NYC is running out](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/supply-chain/mount-sinai-cancels-vaccine-appointments-after-supply-shortage.html) of vaccine doses, [LA has excess that's being misappropriated](https://www.dailynews.com/2021/01/11/medical-workers-say-culver-city-hospital-denied-them-covid-19-vaccines-in-favor-of-employee-relatives/) by unscrupulous physicians.  2. Since vaccine distribution has been left to states without any central coordination, [basically every state is failing](https://www.modernhealthcare.com/supply-chain/expanded-vaccine-rollout-us-spawns-new-set-problems). The few good-ish examples exist have one thing in common: they have relatively [small, manageable populations](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/most-successful-vaccine-rollouts-in-us-4-state-strategies.html).  3. That's something that they have in common with the country distributing vaccines the best: [Israel has done a comparatively incredible job](https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/01/08/what-we-can-learn-israels-covid-vaccination-plan-15259) of vaccinating its population. How?  4. Simply put, the successes being experienced right now - whether they're on an international or hyperlocal level - are happening where people are [learning lessons from the disruption](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/geisingers-chief-innovation-officer-why-healthcare-shouldnt-go-back-normal) of the last year.  5. Healthcare in America might be ["too vital to fail,"](https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/strategy/the-no-1-lesson-from-the-2021-jp-morgan-healthcare-conference-healthcare-is-too-vital-to-fail.html) but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't try to improve.  Amid all the bad news of problems out of your control, the good news is that one thing you can directly control is the amount of medical product waste going into hospital dumpsters. And the high cost associated with it - that can be lowered, too.  [Learn how in a webinar we're putting on in partnership with Becker's Hospital Review and Steward Health Care. ](https://go.beckershospitalreview.com/how-steward-health-care-prevented-16-million-worth-of-inventory-from-expiration-in-six-months)   [selling medical inventory](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/selling-medical-inventory) [inventory management software](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/inventory-management-software) [healthcare inventory](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/healthcare-inventory) [buying medical supplies](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/buying-medical-supplies) [coronavirus](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/coronavirus) [covid-19](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/covid-19) [vaccines](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/vaccines) [healthcare supply chain](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/healthcare-supply-chain) [medical supply chain tracking software](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/medical-supply-chain-tracking-software) [service system for hospital inventory](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/service-system-for-hospital-inventory) [inventory management system](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/topic/inventory-management-system) ## Leave a Comment ## Related Posts ### [5/4/2021 New Tech Trends Changing The Healthcare Industry During COVID-19](https://www.z5inventory.com/blog/new-tech-trends-changing-the-healthcare-industry-during-covid-19) ### [4/6/2021 Hospitals Stocked Up. 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