ReNu Medical Signs Multi-Year Contract With Amerinet Healthcare Group Purchasing Organization
ReNu Medical joins Amerinet's group purchasing portfolio. Through the new contract, Amerinet's more than 23,000 health care provider members can save on ReNu's high-level disinfection (HLD) medical device reprocessing service.
Everett, WA. July 20, 2005...“ Savings, choice and integrity. Three key words
that describe Amerinet, ReNu Medical, and the value they bring to their
customers and membership,” said Loren Timmons, VP, Marketing, and Business
Development at ReNu Medical. “Amerinet allows its members to choose from market
leading and emerging suppliers to ensure the best price, technology and quality
products. Because their members requested the cost and environmental advantages
of high-level disinfection (HLD) versus sterilization, Amerinet will make HLD
technology from ReNu Medical available to its membership
immediately."
Addressing non-critical and semi-critical devices, HLD
provides a way for hospitals to save money, reduce medical waste, provide
high-quality products, and improve patient and staff safety. Typically, hospital
management chooses HLD because it saves two to three times more money than
sterilization and substantially reduces environmental waste.
“Amerinet
is proud to be one of the first national group purchasing organizations to
include HLD in their contract portfolio,” said Mary Menne, contract manager,
medical and surgical supplies, Amerinet. “ReNu’s process can save our members
money, help them meet their goals to reduce environmental impact and enable them
to maintain quality patient care.”
“One of the primary reasons we chose
Amerinet is their Standards of Business Ethics and Conduct. Our responsibility
as a corporation is to our customers, employees, and the environment. The
conduct and ethics we practice at ReNu Medical place a premium on the core
values of honesty, integrity, accountability and responsibility,” said Randy
Long, CEO of ReNu Medical. “We believe that Amerinet and ReNu Medical working
together will make a lasting and positive impression.”
ABOUT
AMERINET
Amerinet is one of the most innovative and effective health care
group purchasing organizations in the United States, partnering with members to
improve their operating margins. Amerinet leads the industry in flexibility with
a commitment to providing supplier choice for its members. Amerinet’s national
network of companies – Amerinet Central, Intermountain Health Care and Vector –
has set the standard for customer service for nearly two decades.
More
than 1,860 hospitals and 21,000 non-acute care facilities find cost savings and
value-added services through Amerinet’s comprehensive contract portfolio.
Members trust Amerinet to deliver proactive information and integrity. For more
information, visit www.amerinet-gpo.com.
ABOUT RENU MEDICAL:
ReNu
Medical is the leading reprocessor of non-invasive single use medical devices
(SUD’s). ReNu’s unique services focus on providing the safest product for the
patient, reducing medical waste and significantly reducing supply costs by
maximizing available savings.
ReNu’s focus on non and semi critical
devices provides a significant source of cost savings with very little
associated risk. These devices go on the body not in the body. High-level
disinfection (HLD) offers significant cost savings over sterilization methods.
For example, ReNu’s non-toxic method of HLD has the proven ability to turn an
individual medical device 2-3 times more than a sterilizing reprocessor, which
equates to 2-3 times the cost savings. Additionally, with our quick turn around
time, two weeks compared to 8-12 weeks, less inventory is required thus saving
you even more money. Finally, ReNu has the proven lowest discard rate in the
industry (less than 10% on average) allowing you to get more devices back. These
advantages offer significant savings far above other reprocessors.
High-level disinfection technology is 100% non-toxic, environmentally
friendly and a safe gentle alternative for the non and semi critical devices.
HLD offers twice the life span and double the saving of toxic Ethylene Oxide Gas
(EtO) utilized by sterilization reprocessors. No harmful air emissions are
released into the environment and no chemical residue is left on the device. The
CDC, APIC, and other healthcare organizations support HLD.
ReNu Medical
is a supporter and Champion of Hospitals for a Healthy Environment. We recommend
you visit their website (www.h2e-online.org) to learn more about how to reduce hospital
medical waste.
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