Cardinal Health and SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. have entered into a five-year supply and co-marketing agreement to offer surgical kits that include disposable healthcare products from Cardinal Health and reusable healthcare products from SRI Surgical.
The agreement makes Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health the exclusive manufacturer of SRI Surgical's line of more than 400 disposable surgical kits. In addition, the agreement provides for the development of a new product offering, the Hybrid Preference Pack, in which SRI Surgical will combine its reusable surgical components with disposable surgical components from Cardinal Health.
Tampa, Fla.-based SRI Surgical plans to deliver, reprocess and retrieve Hybrid Preference Packs on a daily basis through its 10 reprocessing plants and four distribution centers located throughout the United States.
The company's reprocessing plants provide a closed-loop process that delivers just-in-time sterile surgical linen, surgical instruments and disposable components to the operating room.
Cardinal Health will manufacture the disposable surgical components for Hybrid Preference Packs at its network of four kit manufacturing facilities, where it already assembles more than 21 million disposable surgical kits each year.