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Novation Wins National Award for Environmental Achievement

H2E Recognizes Leaders in Transforming Health Care

IRVING, TX; May 7, 2007 — Novation, the health care contracting services company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), two national health alliances, has won a Champions for Change award for the fourth consecutive year from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E). H2E’s Champions for Change Award recognizes Novation for improvements in its environmental performance and for leadership in environmentally responsible health care.

“Novation is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the health care industry,” said H2E Executive Director Laura Brannen. “By introducing healthier and more responsible products and practices, Novation is helping health care facilities everywhere to operate in ways that protect the health of patients, workers, communities, and the environment. This is a revolution that benefits everyone.”

Jointly founded by the American Hospital Association, the Environmental Protection Agency, Health Care Without Harm, and the American Nurses Association, H2E is an independent not-for-profit organization focused on improving health care’s environment performance. H2E envisions a health care system committed to reduced waste volume and toxicity, efficient energy and water use, clean, air, safe work practices, and safe buildings.

Since 2002, H2E has been acknowledging outstanding contributions to the creation of a truly healthy health care system. The H2E Environment Excellence Awards are the industry’s premier environmental honors. Novation was recognized for its leadership in improving the health care industry’s environmental performance.

Novation and its alliances, VHA and UHC, work together to reduce the environmental impacts of providing health care by sharing best practices on a wide array of environmental issues – such as food sustainability, pharmacuetical waste management, mercury elimination, green cleaning and healthy buildings. Novation continues to strive towards contracting for environmentally safe products and practices with initiatives that include:

• Safer food alternatives
• Management of pharmaceutical waste
• Reduction/reuse/recycle initiatives
• Chemicals management policy
• Expansion of safety attributes product listings

“Novation embraces the initiatives established by H2E and continues to support environmentally preferred purchasing patterns both internally and across all of the hospitals and health care organizations we represent,” says Christine Miller, senior clinical manager for Novation's safety program. “Receipt of this recognition from H2E is the result of a collaborative and committed effort by Novation, alliance member health care organizations, and suppliers to work towards a sustainable health care environment.”

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About Novation
Founded in 1998, Irving, Texas-based, Novation is the leading health care contracting services company, delivering unmatched savings and value to nearly 2,500 members of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), two national health care alliances and nearly 12,000 members of Provista, LLC. Through its competitive contracting process, Novation develops and manages contracts with more than 500 suppliers. Novation offers the most extensive range of advanced contracting services, including: contract development, contract and supplier management, custom contracting, enhanced savings programs, online contract management and analytical tools, order management and online supplier connectivity. VHA, UHC and Provista members used Novation contracts to purchase more than $33.1 billion in 2007.

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