MPS Acacia, a Brea-based medical device maker, was awarded an 18-month group-purchasing contract by Premier Inc., a San Diego-based hospital alliance. Under the contract, MPS Acacia will provide around 1,850 hospitals with its Saf-T Click and Saf-T Holder blood drawing devices.
Saf-T Clik and Saf-T Holder are designed to prevent needle-stick injuries that can transmit blood-borne infections such as hepatitis C and the HIV virus to healthcare workers.
MPS Acacia’s products include IV tubing sets, specialty IV line extensions and accessories for infusion therapy and a drug delivery pump. The company, which is privately held, markets to the hospital and home healthcare infusion therapy markets.
Premier is the parent company of an alliance of 210 not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems around the United States. Its owners operate or have affiliation arrangements with around 1,850 hospitals. Its Web site lists Children’s Hospital of Orange County, South Coast Medical Center and St. Joseph Health System among its members. Rob O’Leary, who recently resigned as president and chief executive of Santa Ana-based PacifiCare Health Systems Inc., is a former Premier executive.
