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There is a similarly interesting, nonprofit drug company that is trying to resolve shortages and price problems, and where the founding hospital system is also a nonprofit with a very good, long-term reputation (and good personal experience--their intake forms to get a blood sample drawn totaled 2 reasonable pages, where the next-nearest hospital came out at 11 pages of icky legalese including documents by reference), and have generally done friendly good work for a long time as far as I can tell.

Wikipedia says (lightly edited here for brevity): "Civica Rx is a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer .... started by national philanthropies and leading US health systems. By [EO] 2019, over 45 health systems representing 1200 hospitals were members of Civica. Member ... pharmacists and clinicians help prioritize the medications Civica makes.... By the end of 2019 Civica had 18 medications (28 SKUs) in production, and plans to bring over 100 medications to market in five years through various manufacturing approaches such as partnerships, developing ANDAs, and building its own manufacturing capability. ... The first shipment of Civica private-label medication was vancomycin, delivered to Riverton Hospital, a part of Civica founder health system Intermountain Healthcare, in October 2019." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civica_Rx )

(edit: somebody else here also mentions civica and has a couple of other links, in their comment.)



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