Steward Health Care Joins Innovative Effort to Solve America’s Drug Shortage Crisis
Becomes founding member of Civica Rx; Mission-driven initiative aims to ensure essential generic medicines are affordable and available to all
Steward joins prominent health systems including, including
“Steward is proud to join Civica because a new, highly-collaborative, approach is needed to solve America’s drug shortage crisis,” said Dr.
“We are thrilled to welcome these highly-regarded health systems to Civica as founding members,” said
Civica Rx expects to bring over 14 hospital-administered generic drugs to hospitals and health care systems in 2019 as the initial focus of the company’s efforts, with many additional medications prioritized by the healthcare systems as the next phase of focus for the company.
The Steward Health Care Network includes five thousand physicians across 800 communities who help to provide more than 12 million patient encounters per year.
Civica Rx was established by philanthropies and leading health systems in the
Civica Rx is collaborating with the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) newly formed
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