Policy intended to identify, account for, and manage financial relationships with Vendors (a Vendor is a company, group or other business entity that is a supplier or potential supplier to the UNC Health Care System of drugs, materials, supplies, equipment or services)
Policy should limit inappropriate relationships that do not provide benefits to patients and trainees or that provide excessive benefits to individual (faculty, staff, or students)
Policy intended to assure the safety and well-being of patients and the integrity of our institutions and their research and clinical activities
Vendor relationships are not necessarily bad, but they must be approved and managed
