Robert Michel
Corporate Director of Supply Chain
Robert Michel serves as Corporate Director of Supply Chain where he develops and implements comprehensive supply chain management strategies to bring the greatest value from CHC’s supply expenditures and resource utilization. Robert has more than 30 years of materials management leadership experience at healthcare facilities and with a healthcare performance improvement company.
Prior to joining CHC, Robert was the Regional Director of Materials Management for MedAssets, where he was responsible for managing Materials Management Directors at 14 Tenet-owned facilities along with 42 MedAssets staff and more than 100 Tenet staff members. In this role, he established leading practices in stock purchasing, inventory control, receiving and storage, distribution, material processing and returns, as well as developed a collaborative culture across numerous hospital departments. Before that role, Robert served as the Director of Materials Management at John Peter Smith Health Network in Ft. Worth, Texas, Mountainview Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Saint Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences in Missoula, Montana.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Master of Healthcare Administration from Webster University, located in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP) certification from the American Hospital Association Certification Center.
ADDITIONAL TEAM MEBERS:
Kathleen Elsbury, Corporate Supply Chain Implementation Specialist
Sabra Redden, Supply Chain Analyst