Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:18:19 GMT Server: Stronghold/1.3b4 Ben-SSL/1.3 Apache/1.1.1 Content-type: text/html COHR Inc. - Nasdaq: (CHRI) A leading national outsourcing organization for health-care services.

Purchase Connection

Purchase Connection, one of the largest group purchasing organizations in the industry, offers its members over $2 billion in volume buying power. The first purchasing group to recognize the imminent expansion of health care into alternate (non-hospital) settings, Purchase Connection anticipated the explosive growth of free-standing surgery and diagnostic imaging centers. Now nearly half of its approximately 1,700 members represent alternate care sites.

As part of COHR Inc., Purchase Connection members enjoy cost savings unavailable from any other GPO on an unparalleled portfolio of carefully selected products and services. Innovative arrangements with manufacturers and distributors (including stockless inventory, sole source agreements, tiered discounts and customized supply configuration and shipment) create a wide array of customer options and keep price and waste to a minimum. An online catalog lists the availability of all products. Additional online information services, suggested drug protocols and drug utilization effectiveness studies are available to member pharmacists.

Purchase Connection also sponsors quarterly networking meetings, regional educational seminars and a broad-spectrum annual meeting. These keep health-care providers up-to-date on the rapid changes that occur within a very complex business and regulatory environment.

Purchase Connection product lines include:

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