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Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Benefit from New Premier Agreements for Surgical Instruments
[February 25, 2013]

Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Benefit from New Premier Agreements for Surgical Instruments


CHARLOTTE, N.C. --(Business Wire)--

The Premier healthcare alliance today announced new agreements for surgical instruments have been awarded to Aesculap Inc. of Center Valley, Pa.; American Surgical Specialties Company, a women owned business, of Franklin, Tenn.; CareFusion of San Diego, Calif.; Fischer Surgical Inc. of Imperial, Mo.; gSource LLC, a small business enterprise, of Emerson (News - Alert), N.J.; HNM Medical LLC, a minority owned business, of Miami, Fla.; J.Jamner Surgical Instruments Inc. dba Integra Surgical of St. Paul, Minn.; Precision Medical Devices Inc. of New Brunswick, N.J.; Symmetry Surgical of Nashville, Tenn.; and Teleflex Medical Incorporated of Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Effective February 1, 2013, the agreements are available to acute care and continuum of caremembers of Premier.



About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals and 90,000 other sites using the power of collaboration and technology to lead the transformation to coordinated, high-quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals, health systems and other providers, Premier operates a leading healthcare purchasing network with more than $4 billion in annual savings. Premier also maintains the nation's largest clinical, financial and outcomes database with information on 1 in 4 patient discharges. A world leader in delivering measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington. https://www.premierinc.com. Stay connected on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.



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