ATLANTA – Inviro Medical Devices announces a new agreement with WNC Health Network, making available the infection control company’s extensive portfolio of InviroSNAP! Safety Syringe products to the network’s more than 53 acute care hospitals across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, as well as Western North Carolina County health departments and Mountain AHEC.
WNCHN is a group affiliate of Premier Purchasing Partners, the largest Group Purchasing Organization in the U.S., and 52 of its members are Premier owners or affiliates. Through volume aggregation of its membership, WNCHN enables its hospitals to secure best pricing scenarios for a variety of services and products in many areas of healthcare procurement including but not limited to, medical surgical products, lab, pharmacy, food and service agreements. Inviro Medical Devices was awarded a three-year contract in October 2007 with Premier Purchasing Partners, thus opening the door to the agreement with WNCHN.
“This contract places our manually retractable safety syringes in the hands of respected and strategically located healthcare organizations throughout the Carolinas and Virginia,” says Jim Charlesworth, senior vice president of strategic accounts for Inviro Medical Devices.
The WNC Health Network is a collaboration of hospitals, county health departments and other health care providers to support the delivery of cost-effective, quality health services to our region. The Network maintains a visionary community focus supported by collaboration, integrity and respect among our health care providers.
Based in Asheville, NC, the Network began in 1995 to identify, explore and implement cost-effective, collaborative opportunities among the hospitals and health care systems serving western North Carolina. WNCHN has evolved from smaller networks and alliances and now includes 46 hospitals, 13 health departments and Mountain AHEC. WNCHN is a 501c3 not for profit NC corporation with oversight from a 16-member board of directors.