MediPurpose, Inc. Signs Three-Year HealthTrust Agreement for SurgiLance Safety Lancets

ATLANTA and BRENTWOOD, Tenn., March 16—MediPurpose® announced today that it recently signed an agreement with HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP (HealthTrust) to include MediPurpose’s SurgiLance® safety lancets in its health-care product portfolio.

“We are always honored when health-care GPOs recognize the value of our medical products,” said MediPurpose President Randy Prather. “HealthTrust’s well-deserved reputation for consistently delivering high-quality medical products at competitive prices is well matched to our mission and reputation. We look forward to a rewarding relationship.”

Since its launch in 1999, SurgiLance® safety lancets have become one of the world’s most popular needlestick solutions. No-cost sample requests are available for any of SurgiLance’s six safety lancet models.

About HealthTrust

HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP, headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., is a group purchasing organization that supports 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care facilities, as well as 10,600 ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and alternate care sites. With an annual purchasing volume by its members of more than $18.1 billion, HealthTrust is committed to obtaining the best price for clinically recommended products, ensuring their timely delivery, and continuously evaluating and improving its services to the patients, physicians and clinicians it serves. The Web site is www.healthtrustpg.com.

About MediPurpose

Founded in 1999, MediPurpose is a leading medical products company headquartered in Singapore, with offices in the United States and Europe.

Known for its popular SurgiLance® safety lancet and babyLance® heel incision device—and more recently, its MediPlus™ advanced wound care products—MediPurpose has leveraged its success in the medical device industry to become a master medical product distributor that provides unique solutions for both medical product manufacturers and medical product distributors.

MediPurpose's Medical Device Innovation division offers angel funding and developmental expertise for new medical device inventors and innovative medical product companies that seek entrance into new medical products markets.

For more information about MediPurpose’s medical products and medical product distribution solutions, please visit www.medipurpose.com.

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