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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 20, 2007
CONTACT: Michael Williams
Amerita, Inc.
(949) 387-5080
mwilliams@ameritaiv.com
AMERITA, INC. OPENS NEW SPECIALTY INFUSION PHARMACY IN EL PASO
New location focuses on nutrition support
market in Greater El Paso area.
Irvine, California, March 20, 2007 – Amerita, Inc. announced the opening
of a new specialty infusion pharmacy at 7338 Remcon Circle, Suite 300 in El
Paso, Texas. According to the company, the new location is a full-service infusion
pharmacy that provides complex pharmaceutical products and clinical services
to patients outside of the hospital in alternate settings such as the home
or an ambulatory infusion suite. This new site will service greater El Paso,
Las Cruces, western Texas and southern New Mexico.
The new Amerita location provides patients with specialty infusion therapy
services that primarily require intravenous administration of medications to
treat a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions, including infectious
diseases, auto-immune disorders, cancer, pain, multiple sclerosis and hemophilia.
Additionally, the Amerita location features a high-tech pharmacy that exceeds
USP797 standards and a multi-disciplinary nutrition support team that includes
a dietitian to treat patients with nutritional deficiencies.
“Our unique emphasis on nutritional therapy enables our nutrition support
specialists to manage everything from simple to very complex therapies where
extensive intervention by the pharmacist and dietitian is required,” said
general manager Belinda Gomez, RPh. “We have an experienced staff that
also specializes in pediatric infusion.
“The opening of our El Paso location rounds out our strategy to provide
high quality specialty infusion services to patients across the entire state
of Texas,” said Jim Glynn, CEO of Amerita. “This location is important
in helping us reach our goal to provide the responsiveness, quality and personal
touch that customers expect on a local, regional and state-wide basis.”
Amerita, Inc. www.ameritaiv.com is a privately held
Specialty Infusion company focused on providing complex pharmaceutical products
and clinical services to patients outside of the hospital. This market is expanding
rapidly and is driven by increasing healthcare costs, a growing bio-pharmaceutical
pipeline of infuseable and injectable medications and an aging population.
Amerita is headquartered at 20 Fairbanks, Suite 173, Irvine, CA 92618. Phone:
(949) 273-6528 / Fax: (949) 273-6547
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