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Medline CEO Charlie Mills has led the U.S.’s largest privately-held healthcare supplies manufacturing and distribution company since 1997. After quietly supplying nursing homes, hospital systems and pharmacies for the past 100 years, the Northfield-headquartered company is now at the forefront of providing protection for millions of health care workers and their facilities as the world battles COVID-19. Ramping up and reconfiguring production almost overnight, the family-owned Medline has been a significant provider of masks, gowns and sanitizer to nearly every major healthcare system in the nation. A year into the pandemic, learn how one of Chicago’s quietest – and most humble – companies is caring for its customers around the clock during this public health crisis, while on a mission to make healthcare run better.