Quidel Corporation a leading provider of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, announced that Adventist Health System has chosen Quidel as its supplier for rapid point of care influenza test kits. The system’s clinical advisory committee voted unanimously to utilize the QuickVue Influenza kit throughout its entire system based on clinical and economical values. This partnership agreement will run until September 30th, 2009.

The Adventist system is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in the US serving over four million patients. They serve 36 hospitals in 10 states as well as home health care and long-term care facilities. 

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), influenza is responsible for about 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. The National Foundation of Infectious Diseases, in a report released in September 2007, indicates that influenza can be especially severe for those with high-risk conditions (e.g., diabetes and heart disease), and recent studies have also found that the illness may trigger up to 92,000 cardiac deaths per year nationwide.

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