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IRVING, Texas, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation, the leading health care supply contracting company owned by VHA and UHC, today announced that the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) has signed an agreement to utilize and benefit from Novation's contracting and supply chain solutions. The CHCA Board of Directors chose Novation as the best supply cost reduction partner based on due diligence and recommendations by a member-led task force representing CHCA's children's...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Safecor Health, the market leader in pharmaceutical repackaging services, announced today that they have finalized a one-year extension to their single-source contract award with Novation for unit dose repackaging and bar coding services. Under the terms of the Novation contract extension, Safecor Health will continue to provide a comprehensive menu of unit-dose and bar-coded medication repackaging services to members and affiliates of...
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation commends the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics for highlighting the importance and raising awareness of the drug shortage crisis facing America's hospitals in its report titled, "Drug Shortages: A Closer Look at Products, Suppliers and Volume Volatility." The paper, along with the President's October 31, 2011 Executive Order, is helping bring much-needed attention to the problem of drug shortages. In conjunction with the...
IRVING, Texas, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Allina Hospitals & Clinics, which serves patients throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has simplified its commodity supply management strategies with the help of VHA Inc, the national health care network and Novation, VHA's supply contracting company. Novation launched its new committed portfolio in January of 2011. This portfolio offers savings on a variety of high-spend commodity categories, including medical/surgical products,...
IRVING, Texas, April 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation, the leading health care supply contracting company, announced today the addition of BIOTRONIK (Lake Oswego, OR) to its Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Devices portfolio. This new 30-month agreement represents the first collaboration between the respective organizations. Effective April 15, 2011, the collaboration between Novation and BIOTRONIK will open access to products with many new options for the members of VHA Inc., the...
IRVING, Texas, Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation, the leading health care supply contracting company, announced today that Medtronic Inc. has cancelled five contracts with Novation that cover cardiovascular and orthopedic products. Novation is owned by VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), and VHA and UHC members represent $2 billion in annual purchases for Medtronic in these product categories. Novation has been in constant contact with Medtronic and has made...
SAN DIEGO, and IRVING, Texas, Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AHS), the nation's largest healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company, today announced that it has amended an existing agreement between its Nursefinders division and VHA, Inc., to expand the scope of its provider relationship. VHA is a national network whose members work together to drive maximum savings in the supply chain arena, set new levels of clinical performance and identify and...
IRVING, Texas and MORRISVILLE, N.C., Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- VHA Inc., the national network, has selected RadarFind, a TeleTracking company, to provide its real-time locating distributed sensor network to VHA's 1,400 member hospitals to track equipment, patients and staff for improved operational efficiency and patient care. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100909/NE61479 ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100909/NE61479 ) (Photo:...
PNC and VHA Inc., a national health care network, announced today a new agreement to provide VHA members nationwide with treasury management services specifically designed to help health care organizations to both reduce their processing expenses and increase their working capital. Pittsburgh (PRWEB) November 1, 2010 PNC and VHA Inc., a national health care network, announced today a new agreement to provide VHA members nationwide with treasury management services specifically designed...
LAKE FOREST, Ill., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hospira (NYSE: HSP), a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, today announced that the new national infusion pump and solutions and equipment agreements with Novation became effective Oct. 1, 2010. Novation is the leading healthcare supply contracting company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and Provista. The contracts provide the members served by Novation with continued access...
