Stericycle partners with Premier
Lake Forest-based Stericycle Inc., a provider of healthcare-related services that protects people and reduces risk, announced Wednesday it has been awarded a new contract with Premier Purchasing Partners LP, the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc.
The new national agreement for Stericycle's Integrated Waste Stream Solutions is available to 2,300 acute care hospital members of the Premier health care alliance. The agreement also includes a contract for Stericycle's Hazardous Waste service and two existing contracts for its renewed services for Regulated Medical Waste and Pharmaceutical Waste Compliance.
Stericycle was selected by Premier as exclusive health care waste supplier as part of this national agreement and Premier also selected Stericycle as the sole source provider for its ASCEND program (Accelerated Supply Chain Endeavor) that is designed to help health care providers achieve and sustain rapid improvements in supply chain performance.