Excelsior Medical Signs Agreement with HealthTrust
Excelsior Medical Corporation announces the signing of a new preferred supplier contract with HealthTrust Purchasing Group for prefilled saline and heparin flush syringes and their SwabCap disinfection cap line of products, including SwabFlush, a saline flush syringe that offers a SwabCap disinfection cap built into the syringe plunger.
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"We are pleased to continue our outstanding relationship with Excelsior and to make their state of the art products available to our members," says Fred Keller, vice president of sourcing for HealthTrust. "They have demonstrated the ability to develop industry leading products and to provide high level product support to our member clinicians, resulting in enhanced safety and better patient care. We believe the combination of these two Excelsior product lines under this agreement optimizes performance with the care and maintenance of needleless connectors."
"We are extremely pleased that Health Trust has awarded this contract to Excelsior and that we will continue to have the privilege of serving HealthTrust's members," says Excelsior Medical Corporation president and CEO Steve Thornton. "This agreement will continue to benefit the many health care facilities that are members of the HealthTrust group purchasing organization."
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Source: Excelsior Medical
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