Fresenius Kabi USA receives award for commitment to combating drug shortages

Fresenius Kabi USA received the Drug Shortage Guardian Award 2024 from the Angels for Change in May 2024. The mission of this organization is to look after patients during drug shortages. The award saluted the exceptional teamwork and the patient-centric focus, which enabled Fresenius Kabi USA to counter the critical chemotherapy shortage in 2023. The production of the required drugs in order to steward emergency supply to thousands of customers was rapidly increased to ensure access to therapies for the patients in need of treatment.

The initiative also presented individual awards to two Fresenius employees, recognizing the outstanding work and leadership qualities of Karen Twardzik, Vice President (Customer Service Operations), and Danielle Gross, Manager (Customer Service). These two employees made key contributions to ensuring prompt supply of lifesaving medicines to customers and patients across the country.

More about the initiative: www.angelsforchange.org

More on this in the chapter Access and Affordability.

Safety Excellence Award: Prize for our production site in Haina

On the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the Ministry of Labor in the Dominican Republic conferred an award on our Haina site there for its commitment and services for health and safety in the workplace. These include:

• organization of appropriate safety training courses,
• intensive sensitization of our employees, e.g. by communication measures
• the ergonomics program that we offer our employees.

The award also honors the milestone reached by the site during the reporting year:

The Dominican Labor Minister Luis Miguel de Camps presented the special award to representatives of the company.

Read more about Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) at Fresenius Kabi here.

Global Competence Cluster: Collaboration to increase efficiency

Interview with Marvin Hohwieler, Head of GCC

The Global Competence Cluster (GCC) Energy, Water & Waste Management was established as a complement to the existing management systems in 2019. The aim is to offer experts at all the production sites a platform where they can share innovative ideas and proposals related to increasing efficiency in the designated categories and collaborate on these solutions. Innovations are promoted in the GCC and resources are provided to implement them. The award of prizes for the best ideas on implementation by the Global EHS Team and the Management Board is an annual highlight at the Championship Day. The GCC also offers other employees the opportunity to participate so they can learn from each other and enhance their own awareness for improving efficiency in the areas of energy, water, and waste, e.g. by Awareness Days and theme-based events.

Further information can be found in the Environment chapter.