We Are Health Delivered
Distributors provide a critical connection between manufacturers and healthcare providers — ultimately serving patients.
Distributors Are the Vital Link Between Healthcare Manufacturers and Providers
Healthcare distributors deliver 11 million medicines, vaccines and healthcare products safely, efficiently and reliably every day.
Delivering Lifesaving Treatments and Cures in Hours
Distributors work behind the scenes to ensure the constant, reliable flow of lifesaving therapies treatments and cures to patients in the U.S.
In many cases, healthcare product distribution happens within hours, not days. Leveraging constantly running operations, primary distributors can take orders made by 8:00 p.m. and deliver them to their end destination as soon as the next morning.
On a typical business day, each traditional distribution center picks about 108,000 SKUs and processes over 4,000 customer orders.
Medicines
Providers — and ultimately patients — depend on healthcare distributors for on-time access to safe and secure medicines. These prescription medicines and healthcare products range from common over-the-counter medications to complex cold chain products that require constant temperature monitoring.
Vaccines
HDA members play a central role in handling and distributing COVID-19 vaccines as well as common vaccines, such as immunizations for the flu, Hepatitis B, HPV, pneumococcal and shingles to doctor’s offices, health centers, pharmacies and other dispensing sites.
Pharmacies and Providers
Distributors support approximately 20,000 independent pharmacies across the country, providing the logistics expertise, administrative services, and support that allows pharmacists and providers to focus on their patients.
Medical and Surgical Supplies
Healthcare distributors manage extensive relationships with global and domestic manufacturers to provide medical and surgical supplies as well as healthcare products to hospitals, doctor’s offices and other healthcare facilities.
Faces of the Supply Chain
Faces of the Supply Chain connects you to the passionate, committed, innovative and hard-working individuals that make up the industry and ensure that medicines, vaccines, healthcare products and other medical supplies are available when providers and their patients need them.
A component of the Health Delivered campaign, the series features HDA member company employees speaking about the work they do every day to deliver more than 11 million lifesaving treatments and cures to support healthcare providers and their patients across the country. By amplifying our member voices, HDA is bringing to life the people behind the scenes who make the healthcare supply chain work.
Leaning In To Help Across the Whole Supply Chain
Keeping an Essential System Secure
As the healthcare system rapidly changes, distributors are constantly envisioning new ways to move and secure the nation’s medicines, continuously monitoring, protecting and enhancing the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Join A Network To Leverage the Strengths of an Industry
Together, we are creating a safe, efficient and secure supply chain for all Americans — become a part of it.
For more information, contact Lisa Kanfer, Vice President, Membership and Development.