San Diego - GE Healthcare, a global leader in healthcare technology and devices, has entered into collaboration with STERIS Corporation, a recognized leader in surgical technologies, to offer STERIS products in GE interventional suites. The desire to integrate and equip Interventional suites with leading-edge technologies from both companies inspired the agreement, which was announced today at the Society of Interventional Radiology's annual meeting in San Diego.

Through this collaboration, GE Healthcare will provide specialized X-ray equipment and interventional technologies, while STERIS will supply custom-designed HD 360° Suites featuring LED surgical grade lighting, video-switching and visualization systems, and equipment management solutions.

"STERIS and GE Healthcare share a serious commitment to helping healthcare providers optimize their capital investment and room utilization without sacrificing quality or patient and staff safety," commented Bill O'Riordan, STERIS Vice President and General Manager for Surgical Technologies.
"We'll be offering interventional suites tailored to the precise needs of the facility to boost workflow and increase productivity," said Jayant Saha, GE Healthcare General Manager, Interventional Global Marketing.

ABOUT GE HEALTHCARE

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

ABOUT STERIS CORPORATION

STERIS Corporation is a leading provider of infection prevention and surgical products and services, focused primarily on critical healthcare, pharmaceutical and research markets. The Company's more than 5,000 dedicated employees around the world work together to supply a broad array of solutions by offering a combination of equipment, consumables and services that enhance Customer productivity and quality and help make the world a safer place. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol STE. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

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