November 4, 2024

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Innovative Health, MC Healthcare Enter Agreement To Promote Reprocessing And The Environment

Innovative Health, MC Healthcare Enter Agreement To Promote Reprocessing And The Environment
Innovative Health, Inc. has entered into an agreement with MC Healthcare, Inc. that will enable hospitals within MC Healthcare’s Japanese network to reduce environmental impact and at the same time allow Innovative Health’s U.S. hospital partners to increase their savings from single-use medical device reprocessing. 


 


MC Healthcare will collect select used single-use devices that cannot be reprocessed and reused in Japan from hospitals. Innovative Health will acquire and reprocess these devices, enabling U.S. hospitals to increase their use of single-use devices and reduce costs, while Japanese hospitals reduce their environmental footprint.


 


“Innovative Health’s reprocessing program already saves our hospital partners hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Getting used devices from Japan enables us to significantly boost these savings with the availability of additional reprocessed devices,” said Innovative Health CEO Rick Ferreira. “It is a great honor for us to partner with MC Healthcare to create this win-win situation for hospitals and the environment.”


 


Single-use device reprocessing is an established practice in the U.S., but it is still a growing practice in Japan, and getting regulatory clearance to reprocess single-use devices in Japan is a time-consuming process. While the long-term plan is for MC Healthcare and Innovative Health to develop a single-use medical device reprocessing program in Japan, this agreement allows for short-term benefits to be realized immediately.


 


“MC Healthcare is committed to making an impact for our hospital partners, and improving their financial and environmental sustainability is an important part of this commitment,” said MC Healthcare President and CEO Masayasu Miike. “Our collaboration with Innovative Health will help drive short-term environmental results as well as long-term financial results.”


 


Innovative Health is the leading reprocessor of single-use devices used in electrophysiology and interventional cardiology labs in hospitals. The company’s regulatory and reprocessing technology expertise will enable the two companies to achieve these immediate environmental and cost savings results. This agreement will also promote the practice of single-use reprocessing in Japan and eventually build a reprocessing program in the country.


 


The agreement is being implemented during the summer of 2024 with a gradual inclusion of more Japanese hospitals into the program.


 

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