HSCA Members To Receive Competitive Pricing On Vitros Products

Health Services Corp. of America (HSCA) has signed a three-year purchasing contract with Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. (OCD; Rochester, NY) to provide HSCA members with competitive pricing on all OCD Vitros brand clinical chemistry and immunoassay instruments, reagents, consumables, and accessories. The agreement is effective October 1, 1998.

"The Vitros dry-slide technology remains the standard for today's laboratory as far as quality results and specimen processing efficiency, " said Louis E. "Gene" Banner, HSCA's vice president, Contract and Information Services. "The OCD agreement will be a valuable product addition for our member facilities. We're pleased to add these powerful platforms to our product portfolio."

OCD, a Johnson & Johnson company, supplies diagnostic and blood screening systems, services, and supplies to medical laboratories and blood donor centers worldwide. Products range from benchtop units for doctors' offices to high-volume, automated systems used by hospitals and metropolitan medical laboratories. With the 1997 launch of the Vitros ECi Immunodiagnostic system, laboratories can now support up to 90 percent of their STAT and routine clinical chemistry and immunoassay tests using Vitros systems.

For more information: HSCA Member Support Services Telephone: 1-800-950-HSCA.