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CONTACT:
Hunter Kome, Premier Inc.
704.733.5698 or hunter_kome@premierinc.com
Hospitals, healthcare providers
to save with Premier exam and surgeon glove agreements
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 21, 2007) – Premier Purchasing
Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for exam and
surgeon gloves.
Agreements for exam gloves have been awarded to Ansell
Healthcare Products of Red Bank, N.J.; Cardinal Health Medical
Products and Services of McGaw Park, Ill.; Cypress Medical
Products of McHenry, Ill.; Digitcare Inc. of Los Angeles,
Calif.; Kimberly-Clark Global Sales of Roswell, Ga.; Medgluv
Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;
Medline Industries of Mundelein, Ill.; and Sempermed USA
Inc. of Clearwater, Fla.
Agreements for surgeon gloves have been awarded to Ansell
Healthcare Products of Red Bank, N.J.; Cardinal Health Medical
Products and Services of McGaw Park, Ill.; Medline Industries
of Mundelein, Ill.; Molnlycke Health Care of Norcross, Ga.
The 36-month agreements, effective May 1, 2007, offer savings
to acute-care and continuum-of-care members of the Premier
alliance.
About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award recipient
Serving 1,700 hospitals and almost 45,000 other healthcare
sites, Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in
the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes
while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit
hospitals, Premier operates the nation's largest healthcare
purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of
hospital clinical and financial information and one of the
largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability
risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San
Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington.
For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.
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