Steve Kiewiet

As Vice President over Supply Chain Distribution for BJC HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare organizations, Stephen Kiewiet oversees a division of 175 people in 12 hospitals and three non-acute service areas. He has successfully led his team in the implementation of several key projects, including the creation of a centralized inventory project, Gateway, managing medical devices (non-stocks) to include owned and consigned inventory, which resulted in a reduced vendor/supply footprint inside the hospitals; the expansion into procedural supply room/area management in key facilities, successfully managing several procedural areas for supplies and ordering including the OR, Cath Lab, IR and GI Lab, which is now scheduled for full-system implementation; and piloting the End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility (E2ESCV) initiative, a joint collaboration with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical. He also supports the distribution network design functions of the medical school campus 10-year construction project, and serves as the team lead for the Making BJC Better purchased services project, expected to deliver over $15 million in savings for the system.