Wilson-Cook Medical Signs Contract To Provide Consorta
Members With GI/Endoscopy Products

Winston-Salem, N.C. - Wilson-Cook Medical, a Cook company, has signed a contract with Consorta, a leading group purchasing organization (GPO) based in Rolling Meadows, Ill, to offer its full line of gastro-intestinal endoscopy products to the Consorta membership, which encompasses over 400 acute care facilities, representing 55,944 beds, and more than 1700 non-acute care sites.

"We're proud to announce Consorta's first contract with Wilson-Cook, which is one of the first vendors in our discipline selected to serve this organization's members," said, Dawn Spencer, national accounts manager, Wilson-Cook Medical. "We look forward to bringing the benefits of Wilson-Cook's world class technologies in minimally invasive GI procedures to Consorta's patients."

Consorta, Inc. is a leading healthcare resource management and group purchasing organization whose shareholders are Catholic sponsored, faith-based or non-profit health systems. Consorta's shareholder health care systems operate more than half of all Catholic hospitals in the United States, own many extended and alternate care sites and have affiliate relationships with other non-profit hospitals and alternate care facilities.

"The Wilson Cook product line offers our members great breadth and depth," said Robin Szarmach, director of surgical and cardiology services for Consorta. "This is the first time Consorta has established an agreement for GI Lab products. We are excited to be working with both of our new suppliers for these important products. Our membership can begin immediate implementation of the agreement by signing on via Consorta's new online commitment system, Velocity™."

With international headquarters in Bloomington, Ind., privately held COOK® (www.cookgroup.com) is a leading designer, manufacturer and global distributor of minimally invasive medical device technology for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Since its founding in 1963, Cook has created innovative technologies for stents and stent-grafts, catheters, wire guides, introducer needles and sheaths, embolization coils, medical biomaterials, vena cava filters, implanted cardiac lead extraction equipment and other minimally invasive medical devices.

MEDIA CONTACT:
David McCarty
Director of Public Relations
Cook Incorporated - 812-339-2235 ext. 2387
Email: dmccarty@cook-inc.com

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