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“Part of our job at the Michigan Center for Rural Health is to constantly be searching the health care
marketplace for products and services that will benefit our rural providers. We chose EMTS as our
partner because their reputation is excellent and every one of our hospitals and rural health clinics
can benefit from their service.”
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John Barnas - Executive Director
Michigan Center for Rural Health
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CONTRACT RENEWED THROUGH DECEMBER 2007!
EMTS and MedAssets HSCA Announce Three-year Agreement
St. Louis, MO & Englewood, CO (7/14/03) – Equipment Management and Technology Solutions (EMTS), a leading capital equipment sourcing and technology management company, and MedAssets HSCA, a leading provider of healthcare supply chain and outsourced business services, today announced an agreement to provide EMTS’s Capital Equipment Cost Reduction Services to MedAssets HSCA’s healthcare provider customers. This three-year contract is effective August 1, 2003.
Charles W. George, President of EMTS, says “Our mission at EMTS is to lower the overall costs of capital equipment acquisition and service for our partner facilities, without any impact what-so-ever to existing operations or level of patient care. This partnership demonstrates to the healthcare marketplace that MedAssets HSCA is committed to listening to the needs of their membership and contracting with top companies to meet those needs. It further cements their leadership position as the flexible GPO”.
Mark Miriani, Vice President, Materials Management Division for MedAssets HSCA, stated “The services provided by EMTS will enable our members to reduce the total life cycle costs associated with capital equipment purchasing by securing increased acquisition discounts, extended warranties, discounts on service, parts, future upgrades and more”.
About MedAssets HSCA
MedAssets HSCA, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the third largest group purchasing organization in the country, serving more than 16,000 healthcare providers, nationwide, with purchasing power approaching $7 billion in gross throughput. It is MedAssets HSCA's mission to be the market-leading, customer-oriented supply chain and contract services company, focused on maximizing the financial performance of healthcare institutions. For more information about MedAssets HSCA, or its parent company MedAssets Inc., contact Gary Johnson, vice president for Marketing and Marketing Services at gjohnson@medassets.com.
About Equipment Management and Technology Solutions
EMTS (www.emtsolutions.biz) works with health care organizations
nationally to manage and reduce the costs associated with the acquisition, on-going service, and valuation of all types of
capital equipment. For more information, please call 888-345-1468. Privately owned, EMTS is headquartered in Littleton, CO.
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