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PharMEDium renews deal with Premier

LAKE FOREST - PharMEDium Services, a part of AmerisourceBergen, recently renewed its sole source group purchasing agreement with Premier Inc. to continue providing outsourced pharmacy compounding and admixture services to Premier member facilities through December 2018.

The agreement includes a wide range of services used for pain management, operating room anesthesia, intensive care, nerve block and labor and delivery.

Premier, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a health care improvement company that operates one of the nation's largest group purchasing organizations. Premier's membership includes approximately 3,600 U.S. hospitals and 120,000 other providers. With an annual purchasing volume by its members of approximately $44 billion, Premier helps providers improve quality outcomes, while safely reducing costs.

PharMEDium and Premier share a primary focus on patient safety. This new agreement allows PharMEDium and Premier to continue to serve the needs of members in support of the care they deliver to patients by providing the highest quality compounded sterile preparations.

"With this renewed agreement, we're committed to working with the Premier team to help members better understand how PharMEDium can assist in streamlining the preparation of sterile admixtures through our broad contract portfolio. Through our network of four FDA 503B Registered Outsourcing Facilities, PharMEDium helps pharmacies meet increasing demands for high quality, sterile compounded services," commented Jenn Adams, President, PharMEDium Services.

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