Our Sponsors

Our sincerest thanks to our sponsors – your support is vital to tackling this critical public health issue

Strategic Sponsors

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INGKY is a diversity-first digital marketing agency based in the United States with a global mindset and network.

We provide marketing services that help small businesses build brands, increase awareness, and amaze their customers. Our professional services include branding and identity, website development and SEO, graphic design, and overall digital strategy. With INGKY, you can focus on what you do best, and we’ll make sure you have the website, social media, brand, and collateral you need to stand out and shine. Whether you choose a standalone service or one of our amazing packages, you will always receive beautiful yet cost-effective results.

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Delivering a Force for Good

 

INVZBL delivers a force for good through its UV-C innovation and comprehensive device maintenance service. Its portfolio of products and services span air purification, device disinfection, and protection-as-a-service. Its flagship offering is INVZBL Protect Express Powered by Fedex, providing the fastest and most affordable device repair, logistics, and disinfection on the market.

 

The Industry’s First Protection Technology Company

 

What is Protection Technology?  It encompasses any innovation that helps protect our communities, spaces, surfaces, and air. Everything in our portfolio is designed to increase how you can protect your people and buildings, from device disinfection to air purification to our comprehensive device repair and logistics service with Fedex. In the future, we will be expanding to new areas of building maintenance and protection as well as new services with other partners. You can think of INVZBL as an invisible force field protecting your students, patients, staff, and environment.

Gold Sponsors

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Saving lives by addressing the critical role of surfaces in healthcare

About Healthcare Surface Consulting

Linda is the President of Healthcare Surface Consulting and a Healthcare Surface Expert. She has enjoyed a 16-year career passionately crusading to awaken, inspire, and educate people on the impact of surfaces in the spread of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). Her mission is to save lives by engaging with healthcare and design professionals to address the critical relationship between healthcare surfaces and HAIs.

Linda Lybert, President
Healthcare Surface Consulting
www.healthcaresurfaceconsulting.com

The Seven Aspects of Surface Selection

Healthcare Surface Consulting looks at the whole picture of surface selection by thoroughly evaluating every aspect critical to infection prevention:

  1. Materials and textiles
  2. Surface assemblies
  3. Microbiology
  4. Location
  5. Human behavior
  6. Cleaning and disinfection
  7. Manufacturer warnings

It is not enough to learn every physical characteristic of a given surface material or even all surface materials. It is not enough to become an expert in the latest disinfection agents and protocols. This data must be combined with an understanding of the patient care process and insight into human behavior patterns. Only by bringing all these aspects together to form a comprehensive understanding of the issues can we begin to develop the sweeping changes that will be required to make a significant reduction in the rate of infection.

Disclosure: Healthcare Surface Consulting president Linda Lybert is also the founder and executive director of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute non-profit organization. Healthcare Surface Consulting LLC has been a contributing sponsor and strategic partner to the Institute since its inception in 2015.

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EASTMAN is a global specialty company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, additives, functional products, specialty chemicals, and fibers that are found in products people use every day.

Today’s healthcare environment has a critical need for better plastics - plastics with unsurpassed chemical resistance to disinfectants.  These critical HAI-preventing disinfectants are used more frequently and with more aggressive protocols.  Hospitals need plastics with the inherent ability to withstand stickiness, discoloration, crazing, cracking and hazing when exposed to these disinfectants.

Eastman plastics are key components used in non-implantable medical devices, including electronic housings and hardware, syringes, minimally invasive surgical instruments, blood contact systems, rigid and flexible tubing, IV components, and renal devices. Eastman MXF221 copolyester is a fully compounded polymer uniquely suited for electronic medical device housings and hardware.

Eastman is a global advanced materials and specialty additives company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With a portfolio of specialty businesses, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability.

Silver Sponsors

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Gelest is a US-based innovator, manufacturer, and global supplier of specialty silicones, organo-silanes, metal-organics, and acrylate monomers. Gelest produces many unique chemicals for a variety of industries, including high purity Silane compounds.  Leveraging those manufacturing capabilities and extensive regulatory abilities, Gelest also produces a line of EPA-registered Silane Quaternary Biocides marketed under the tradename, Biosafe.

Antimicrobials | Antimicrobial Agents | Gelest

For information, please contact Gelest at: info@biosafe.com

 

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About Metrex


Since 1985 Metrex has supported healthcare professionals dedicated to eliminating healthcare-associated infections. We are the only company that offers a system of solutions designed to address cross-contamination across the entire healthcare facility.

We believe that NO ONE should ever have to fight for their health over an illness they did not have when they entered a healthcare facility. We will work tirelessly to ensure that all people within all areas of the healthcare environment are properly protected from cross-contamination so the focus can be put on the most important thing: Getting the patient better.

We offer quality infection prevention solutions that help increase compliance, improve back-office efficiencies and enhance quality patient care. Our complete line of infection control products will help medical facilities meet today’s complex, competitive, and compliance-driven needs. Medical areas served: Acute Care, Alternate Care, Long-Term Care, Surgery Centers, Primary Care, and Outpatient Facilities.

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RÖHM is a leading supplier of methacrylate chemicals worldwide.

Thanks to our positioning as a global company with 15 production sites on four continents, Röhm is close to our customers and markets. As one of the world’s leading partners in quality and reliability, we are committed to defining the methacrylate markets of tomorrow together with our customers. Our strategic goal is clear—to become the leading Methacrylate Verbund.

Our global presence makes us a reliable partner for our customers. For us, limitless partnership means developing the right solutions together with our customers and making their successes our own.

The structure of an integrated production network gives us the flexibility we need to respond quickly and dependably whenever circumstances in our industrial markets and at our customers change.

With decades of experience in the field of methacrylate chemistry, we are further expanding our technology-based strengths in the integrated production network and are continuously developing new fields of application with our products.

Our employees are our key strength. It is their ideas, creativity, and passion that help us develop our business together with our customers. As an attractive employer, we encourage our employees and provide exciting prospects for young professionals.

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ZEBRA technologies empower the front line in retail/e-commerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare. public sector, and other industries to achieve a performance edge.

With more than 10,000 partners across 100 countries, Zebra delivers industry-tailored, end-to-end solutions to enable every asset and worker to be visible, connected and fully optimized. The company’s market-leading solutions elevate the shopping experience, track and manage inventory as well as improve supply chain efficiency and patient care.

Unburden the delivery of care by leveraging easy and interoperable technology solutions from just one partner—Zebra. Zebra offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of healthcare solutions that integrate effortlessly to connect assets, workflows, patients and staff into one holistic system. Let’s work together to give your teams more control, reduce unwanted workarounds, and regain more time for care.

Developed with clinicians at the center, our healthcare devices are specifically designed for busy healthcare facilities. They are made to be durable to hold up to rigorous, frequent cleaning and disinfection. Our healthcare barcode printers, scanners and mobile computers are made with medical grade plastics that help reduce the spread of infection. Our devices can be used with a longer list of approved cleaning agents compared with competitors’ devices.

Association Sponsors

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AHVAP Mission

To provide and promote processes and information to assist Value Analysis Professionals in evaluating healthcare services for clinical quality and cost effectiveness.

AHVAP Vision

Value Analysis is recognized as an essential component of the delivery of healthcare. The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals is nationally recognized as the preeminent clinical resource in providing education and resources and networking to its membership and promoting Value Analysis in the healthcare community.

Statement of Purpose

Value Analysis professionals act as primary investigators and facilitators of major product and practice changes, and are involved in key product, service and technology decisions within healthcare organizations.  They do this using the principles of value analysis stated in AHVAP’s purpose:

Healthcare value analysis contributes to optimal patient outcomes through an evidenced-based systematic approach to review healthcare products, equipment, technology and services.  Using recognized practices and organizational resources collaborate to evaluate clinical efficacy, appropriate use and safety for the greatest financial value©.

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Please consider exploring corporate sponsorship through your workplace today. We work with you to determine the custom benefits of your sponsorship!

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