WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE: TFX), a leading global provider of medical technologies for critical care and surgery, has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for SURPASS with Premier. Effective January 1, 2019, the new agreement offers Teleflex’s broad range of respiratory disposable products to Premier members.

“This highly committed purchasing program provides SURPASS members an opportunity to consolidate their respiratory purchases with one sole-source supplier,” said Michael DiGiuseppe, Vice President of Teleflex Respiratory. “This will expand access to respiratory disposables that help clinicians improve patient outcomes while reducing overall healthcare costs.”

Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 4,000 U.S. hospitals and 165,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and advisory and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost.

About Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a global provider of medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose driven innovation – a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs – to benefit patients and healthcare providers. Our portfolio is diverse, with solutions in the fields of vascular access, interventional cardiology and radiology, anesthesia, emergency medicine, surgical, urology and respiratory care. Teleflex employees worldwide are united in the understanding that what we do every day makes a difference. For more information, please visit teleflex.com.