Lazurite Holdings LLC And CHAMPS Group Purchasing Announce Supplier Agreement

CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), a business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, has revealed a partnership agreement with Lazurite, a Northeast Ohio-based medical device startup company, to offer Lazurite's product offerings to members across the United States.

CLEVELAND, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CHAMPS Group Purchasing (GPO), a business affiliate of The Center for Health Affairs, is excited to announce a partnership agreement with Lazurite, a Northeast Ohio-based medical device startup company, to offer Lazurite's product offerings to members across the United States. The partnership comes after Lazurite was recently awarded 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its ArthroFree™ Wireless Surgical Camera System.

"This partnership with Lazurite creates exciting opportunities to offer cost savings to CHAMPS' members in healthcare, especially those we serve in surgery centers," said Maria Summers, director of CHAMPS GPO. "When we make a recommendation to a member, we want to make sure we're offering them the latest and greatest. Lazurite's novel technologies check both of those boxes and we're excited to offer their products to our members."

CHAMPS GPO currently serves more than 20,000 members nationwide, including organizations in hospital, surgery center and ambulatory-care markets across the United States. With its national GPO partner Premier, CHAMPS supports its member supply chain initiatives through their expertise in contract management, aggregation savings, supply chain technology and spend analytics.

In July 2021, The Center for Health Affairs announced it would be collaborating with Lazurite to bring revolutionary smart surgical tools to market and to operating rooms across Northeast Ohio and the United States. The CHAMPS GPO agreement brings opportunity for further connection between The Center and its affiliates and the Lazurite team.

"This collaboration has served as an example of the game-changing health innovation underway in Northeast Ohio," said Tracy Wise, senior vice president of business operations and administration for The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare. "Progressing technologies to serve our local region is an important objective for us as an organization. We are excited for the expansion of our relationship and look forward to what the future holds for Lazurite."

Co-founded in 2015 by CEO Eugene Malinskiy, Lazurite is developing novel technologies for the future of surgical care with a smart platform for a highly efficient, tech-enabled suite of tools. The company's product pipeline features the modular ArthroFree™; ORFree™, a prototype portable and wireless surgical tower in a briefcase designed for use with the ArthroFree wireless camera; and others based on the company's novel and patented Meridiem™ light engine technology.

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The Center for Health Affairs, the nation's first regional hospital association, has served as the collective voice of Northeast Ohio hospitals for more than 100 years. Together with its business affiliates, CHAMPS Group Purchasing and The Essentials Group, The Center continues the legacy of its founders, working collaboratively to increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery, providing insightful healthcare information to the public and undertaking initiatives aimed at improving the health of the community. For more information, visit www.neohospitals.org.

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SOURCE The Center for Health Affairs and CHAMPS Healthcare