Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • NPR

    Hospitals Prepare To Launch Their Own Drug Company To Fight High Prices And Shortages

    A consortium of hospital systems and three foundations is moving ahead with a nonprofit drugmaker that would produce some of the generic medicines health care facilities need the most.
    by Alison Kodjak Sep 06, 2018 3 minutes
    A leader in the generic drugmaker being launched by hospitals is Intermountain Healthcare, whose Intermountain Medical Center Patient Tower in Murray, Utah, is seen here.

    Sometimes IV bags are hard for hospitals to come by. Other times it's injectable folic acid to treat anemias. Right now the tissue-numbing agent lidocaine is in short supply.

    Shortages of commonplace generic drugs have plagued hospitals in recent years. And with short supplies and fewer suppliers for key drugs, there have been price increases.

    Hospital purchasing agents keep searching for new sources for the medications that patients need, while clinicians scramble to find alternatives.

    "Every day at Intermountain president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, a system of 22 hospitals based in Salt Lake City. "The impact on patient care, in terms of trying to find alternatives and scurrying around and trying to find necessary drugs, is incredibly time-consuming and disconcerting."

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from NPR

    NPR4 min read
    Last-minute Candidate José Raúl Mulino Wins Panama's Presidential Election
    José Raúl Mulino was set to become the new leader of the Central American nation as authorities unofficially called the race Sunday night after his three nearest rivals conceded.
    NPR2 min read
    A Seafood Bounty Lures Sea Lions To S.F.'s Pier 39 In Numbers Not Seen In 15 Years
    It's a popular rest stop for sea lions, but the docks at the tourist hot spot these days are unusually packed out with the slippery residents. Conservationists are buoyed by the surge in visitors.
    NPR2 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
    U Of Mississippi Opens Probe Over Hostile Protest That Involved Racist Taunts
    Videos of Thursday's incident at the school were shared on social media showing heated confrontations between pro-Palestinian protesters and a larger group of counterprotesters.

    Related Books & Audiobooks