TheWoundInstitute.com Wins Prestigious Stevie Award
Healthpoint (Fort Worth, Tex) announces that TheWoundInstitute.com, an online source for accredited wound care education, received the prestigious Stevie Award for Professional Education at the 2006 American Business Awards held in New York, NY, June 12, 2006. The American Business Awards is the only national, all-encompassing business award program that honors great performances in the workplace. Stevie Awards were presented in more than 40 categories, and more than 1,500 entries from companies of all sizes, in virtually every industry, were submitted for consideration. Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges and Advisors and their staffs selected Stevie winners from among finalists chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging earlier this year. Interact Medical, the company that partnered with Healthpoint to create TheWoundInstitute.com, shared the award. Interact Medical is a leading developer of interactive medical e-learning and marketing programs. Interact Medical creates visually based interactive learning and marketing solutions for companies in the medical sector. Visit http://www.healthpoint.com for more information.
Ferris Mfg. Awarded Healthcare Supplier Quality Award Ferris Mfg. Corp. (Burr Ridge, Ill) announces the company recently received the Supplier Performance Award from Premier Inc., a healthcare alliance owned by more than 200 of the nation’s leading not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems. These organizations operate or are affiliated with nearly 1,500 hospitals and more than 38,500 other healthcare sites. Of 400 eligible suppliers, Ferris Mfg. Corp. was one of 69 winners. Awards were presented to suppliers that consistently scored more than 80% on specific quality measures during 4 successive quarters. In the spring of 2006, the company introduced the product line Shapes™ by PolyMem. These dressings are pre-cut, easy to use, and are available in the most common wound shapes and sizes, reducing the need to manually cut dressings to size. Visit http://www.PolyMem.com for more information.
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