Vecuronium Bromide, a neuromuscular blocker, expands the company's sterile injectable portfolio in anesthesia.
HELIOS Hospital Wesermarsch has gone into operation in a newly built facility in the northern German town of Nordenham. The new hospital building has 120 patient beds, three operating rooms and a hybrid cardiac catheterization lab. Capacity can be increased to 235 beds, if needed. Fresenius Helios invested €36 million in the facility, which took about three years to build, with the County of Wesermarsch contributing an additional €10 million.
Clofarabine, a pediatric cancer product, expands the company's sterile injectable portfolio in oncology.
Fresenius Kabi USA has won the prestigious 2016 Pharmaceutical Supplier of the Year Award from Vizient Inc., the largest group purchasing organization for U.S. academic medical centers, community hospitals, pediatric facilities, integrated health delivery networks and non-acute health care providers. Fresenius Kabi has won six Vizient awards for service excellence in recent years.
Fresenius Vamed will realize a 350-bed building at University Hospital St. Pölten, in Austria. Working with a partner company, Fresenius Vamed will be the general contractor on the €176 million project. The new building will have some 21,000 square meters (226,000 square feet) of floor space, housing a range of specialist wards. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019.
Fresenius Helios is investing €14 million to modernize its hospital in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia. Starting late this month, two wards will be completely renovated and expanded, with three delivery rooms to follow. To minimize disruptions to hospital operations, the individual renovations are being carried out in sequence. When completed in early 2019, they will provide more comfort for patients and reduce the distances that need to be walked inside the hospital.
Quirónsalud, a unit of Fresenius Helios, is investing about €40 million to build a proton beam therapy center in Madrid. Scheduled for opening in 2019, it will be the first facility of this type for treating cancer patients in Spain. Currently, every patient who can benefit from proton beam therapy must seek treatment outside the country. In proton beam therapy, the use of a high-energy beam allows tumors to be irradiated with lower total doses of radiation and reduced exposure to surrounding tissue compared with conventional radiation therapy. Quirónsalud will also modernize and expand its radiotherapy clinics in Palmaplanas (Mallorca) and Seville.
Dilaudid (HYDROmorphone HCl injection) is now available in the company’s Simplist™ ready-to-administer prefilled syringe in the United States. This marks the third product launch for the Simplist™ line following ownership by Fresenius Kabi.