PRESS RELEASE
During a special blessing/groundbreaking ceremony, held August 17, ROi officially broke ground on the future home of a 100,000-square-foot custom surgical pack manufacturing facility in Republic, Missouri.
The following leaders were part of the first "ceremonial dig":
- Brian Buckner, Mayor, City of Republic
- David Cameron, City Administrator, City of Republic
- Bob Cirtin, Presiding Commissioner, Greene County Commission Office
- Dr. J. Timothy Cloyd, President, Drury University
- Michael Rivard, Chief Operating Officer, ROi
- Tom Rankin, Rankin Development
- Kenny Ross, Morelock-Ross
- Rick Parrish, ROi Custom Pack Solutions
- Michael Doyle, Mercy
- Michael Doty, Slone Architects
More than 90 ROi co-workers, including 7 new positions, will work from the $10 million facility, scheduled to open in fall 2017, assembling and distributing custom surgical procedure packs for Mercy and other health care systems across the U.S. The packs produced by ROi’s Custom Pack Solutions (CPS) division contain the medical supplies needed to perform a range of surgical procedures.
ROi’s CPS operation is the first provider-owned, FDA-regulated custom pack manufacturing facility in the U.S. The CPS operation has outgrown its current 30,000 square feet of space inside ROi’s Consolidated Services Center (CSC) in Springfield, Missouri. The new facility will provide more capacity to accommodate for continued growth in ROi’s custom pack business.
In the last five years, ROi’s CPS program has grown more than 400 percent in volume, and more than 90 million total components have been placed in ROi packs to date. Today, the operation manages more than 670 different pack designs and averages more than 520,000 packs produced annually. The new facility will be able to produce up to 1.5 million packs each year.
The following partners are involved with the project: Slone Architects (architect), Morelock-Ross (general contractor) and Rankin Development (project developer).
Kathie Woehrmann
Executive Director of Marketing & Communications
ROi | Resource Optimization & Innovation
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