PharMEDium inks deal with Child Health

LAKE FOREST — David N. Jonas, CEO of PharMEDium Healthcare Corp., announced an enhanced agreement with Child Health Corp. of America, an affiliate of Premier, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“We are excited to work with an organization that shares our core values of providing the highest quality sterile intravenous admixture compounding services, which facilitate the best clinical care and emphasize patient safety first,” Jonas said in a statement. “As a valued customer, CHCA benefits from the PharMEDium sole source agreement with Premier for admixtures and compounding services.”

There are 13 CHCA Owner Hospitals utilizing PharMEDium for Outsourced Pharmacy Compounding Services, said Ben Lizak, Manager, Pharmacy Contracting for CHCA  “Now, all 34 Owner Hospitals that participate in CHCA's Group Purchasing Services program can benefit from even more savings on hundreds of sterile IV admixtures that they can obtain quickly and conveniently from a trusted Premier business partner,” Lizak said.

Child Health Corporation of America children's hospitals represent more than 20,000 physicians, 135,000 employees, $25 billion in revenue and $2.1 billion in overall medical, surgical and pharmaceutical products. CHCA is headquartered in Shawnee Mission, Kan.  

PharMEDium is a national provider of pharmacy sterile intravenous admixture compounding services. The PharMEDium network of state licensed and federally registered compounding centers provides solutions to hospitals throughout the United States.