Paul Weiss
Partner/CFO
Paul Weiss is a partner and CFO in Appleseed Healthcare Resources. Paul is an experienced Healthcare Consulting Professional with proven ability to assess service delivery and processes and implement system improvement strategies which results in significant cost savings. Paul is well regarded for his ability to identify and overcome organizational resistance to change at all levels. Paul is a conscientious project executive, who consistently meets and exceeds client expectations for deliverables, budget and timeliness.
Paul has been responsible for the strategic planning, development, and management of an integrated support infrastructure that services the largest IDN in southern New Jersey. He has successfully led a Supply Chain Reengineering initiative that leveraged technology while changing organizational structure, streamlining processes, and skill-mixing positions. This project involved in excess of 100 staff members that redesigned Purchasing, Inventory, Receiving, Distribution, Surgical Services, A/P, CSS, and Asset/Equipment Management.
Paul has held Senior Level positions for Support Services / Logistics Management. He has worked closely with senior management to develop strategic plans for Support Services that are consistent with the mission/vision and strategic initiatives of the Health System.
Rick Winans
Partner
Rick is a Partner with Appleseed Healthcare Resources. He has over 25 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain Management. His experience includes consultant and advisor to large academic medical centers, community hospitals and multi-hospital health systems.
His accomplishments include the development of strategic sourcing and cost management models that produced best practice results for physician preference item (PPI) contracting. Rick also has extensive knowledge and expertise in healthcare food and nutritional services design and modeling. He also led and executed expense management initiatives in support services and purchased services area for large health systems. His experience in the Operating Room expense and logistic management includes responsibility for sterile processing, case cart operations, surgical services inventory and in partnership with the director of surgical services, the expense management of operating room supplies.
For eight (8) years Rick was Vice President of Materials Management at the Maryland General Hospital within the University of Maryland Medical System. In addition, Rick’s previous roles include Director of Materials Management at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago and had the same leadership role at The Cleveland Clinic.
Rick has also led the transformation and implementation of perioperative case cart/sterile processing services at Iowa Methodist Medical Center. He is highly skilled in supply utilization management, spend analytics as well as contract compliance initiatives.
Rick is well known for his collaborative leadership style facilitating multi-disciplinary teams. He has a strong desire to build trusting relationships at all levels of the organization. This approach has resulted in Rick leading innovative and highly effective cost reduction/process improvement initiatives.
Rick holds a MBA from Bellarmine College in Louisville and a BS in Management from the University of Missouri.
John Siedlinski
Senior Consultant
John Siedlinski brings over thirty-seven years of experience as both a provider and consultant in Healthcare Supply Chain operations improvement and Interim Executive expertise. John has significant experience providing multi-million dollar materials management cost reductions in hospital settings. He has a unique ability to assist hospitals in improving operations, reducing inventory and expenses while effectively implementing change. He has extensive experience in planning and implementing JIT/Stockless programs for hospitals, Point-of-use system (POU) implementation, Non-Salary Expense reductions and in improving supply chain management processes.
John has held a Managing Associate position for PriceWaterhouse Coopers’ Health Care Consulting Group for six years while he performed Supply Chain assessments and consulting engagements throughout the country, including the National Survey of Healthcare Materials Management.
John has extensive experience in all areas of Supply Chain operations, including LEAN project implementation – having trained in LEAN processes by professors from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering, Center for Manufacturing LEAN Institute, Lexington. This College is currently undergoing a name change to the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM)
John has participated in numerous national and local speaking engagements on a variety of topics pertaining to Supply Chain and materials management functions, operational improvements, process reengineering and productivity and performance indicators. He has an extensive list of articles to his credit and has been published many times over the years in numerous trade journals. He is an active member of the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management and a retired Radiologic Technologist through the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
Susan Tyk
Senior Consultant
Susan Tyk has over 30 years in the healthcare industry including, Supply Chain Director for a multi-hospital system for 16 years and a Senior Director for Ascension Health Supply Chain, the largest not-for-profit catholic healthcare system in the country.
Susan’s responsibilities at Ascension included the management of the Supply Chain IT, data warehouse and data analytics. She was instrumental in working with SMI and the Department of Defense (DOD) in deploying a “perfect order” pilot that will be used in the future to improve supplier and customer relationships.
Susan has working knowledge with nineteen Material Management Systems and has worked with various software and application companies to improve process and performance in both supply chain and financial applications. She is a strong operations leader.
In addition to working with software, data and data applications she is passionate about distribution and logistics and providing better processes for supply management to reduce overall inventory cost. She was noted as a leader by her peers in the industry in working with suppliers to implement a Freight Management Program. These programs significantly reduce costs for inbound freight by eliminating supplier mark ups and requiring hospitals to take control of their inbound freight expense by eliminating pre pay and add on purchase orders.
Susan is a long standing member of AHRRM and was recognized in 2007 by Healthcare Purchasing News as an “Industry Influencer to Watch”.
Various certifications include TQM certification in 1999 and Project Management certification in 2000.