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Steve Luman
steve@p-p-i.com
828.324.2173
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Protection Products Inc. (PPI) awarded Room Turnover Products agreement with Premier, Inc.
September 2015 – Protection Products Inc. (PPI) has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for Room Turnover Products with Premier, Inc. Effective September 1st, 2015, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Room Turnover Kits and Components.
Protection Products Inc. was the first company to offer customizable, disposable operating room (OR) turnover kits. We are excited about the opportunity to offer our unique, efficient, and cost-saving products to the member organizations of Premier.
This agreement offers Premier members negotiated pricing on PPI’s complete line of operating room (OR) turnover kits designed to help protect hospital staff, patients, and equipment from the dangers of potentially infectious contaminates, while decreasing costs, increasing cleanup efficiency and assisting healthcare professionals in meeting OSHA’s stringent guidelines. Available OR turnover components include table sheets, lift sheets, armboard covers, pillowcases, absorbent floor coverings, patient safety straps, specialty can liners and disposable mops.
About Premier, Inc.
Premier, Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,400 U.S. hospitals and 110,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and advisory and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier, a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com.
About Protection Products Inc.
In 1988, Protection Products Inc. became the first company to market and sell a disposable kit specifically designed to assist in the efficient and rapid “turnover” of an Operating Room between cases. These disposable kits and components have become a mainstay in helping hospitals, surgery centers and medical offices improve productivity while meeting and exceeding safety and infection control standards required in today’s healthcare industry. PPI offers customizable turnover kits and components for operating rooms, Labor & Delivery, Emergency Rooms, Endoscopy, Cardiac Catherization Labs just to name a few. Contact us today to customize a kit or system to meet your specific needs. Protection Products Inc. is headquartered in Hickory, N.C. and services facilities throughout the United States and Canada. For more information, please visit www.P-P-I.com as well as Twitter and LinkedIn.