Civica to Build an Essential Medicines Manufacturing Facility in Virginia

“This Virginia plant and our future employees there will play an instrumental role in preventing the chronic drug shortages that have interrupted hospital operations and put patients at risk for over a decade.”

National Drug Shortage Crisis Hits COVID Vaccine Rollout
Civica Rx’s business model is designed to alleviate manufacturing and supply chain problems, and in the process curtail generic drug shortages.

Civica leaders lauded for transformative work

Partner AMPAC to Expand Near Civica Manufacturing Site

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced AMPAC Fine Chemical’s plans to expand, bringing new investment and jobs to Petersburg. Civica CEO Martin VanTrieste congratulated AMPAC and expressed his optimism about the end-to-end manufacturing partnership with AMPAC, Phlow, and Medicines for All Institute.

Martin VanTrieste on Retail Drugs

Managed Healthcare Executive spoke to Civica CEO Martin VanTrieste about Civica’s tactics, strategies, and launch of an outpatient retail operating unit. Hear from Martin in a three-part video series from the discussion.

CivicaScript to Serve Patients in Retail Markets

New health plan partner, new president, new drug manufacturing partner

CivicaScript is the name for Civica’s operating unit dedicated to lowering the cost of select high-cost generic medicines. One of the nation’s largest health insurers and a leading drug manufacturer have joined the initiative.

The Health Care Utility Model: A Novel Approach to Doing Business

Catalyst, the NEJM platform to share innovative ideas and practical applications for enhancing the value of health care delivery, writes, “Leaders at Civica Rx have developed a potentially disruptive health care business model that enables private-sector efficiency and public-sector societal equity at scale.”

Groups Make Own Drugs to Fight High Drug Prices, Shortages

“Civica Rx was started three years ago by a hospital consortium. It now provides over 50 generic injectable medicines in chronic shortage to more than 1,400 hospital members and the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments. It already has sold enough medication to treat 17 million people, including many hospitalized with COVID-19. Now it’s expanding to help patients directly.”

Our Drug Supply is Sick. How Can We Fix It?

“Civica doesn’t pretend that all drugs are equal. It sources drugs from the United States and Europe so it has more visibility into the supply chain. It stockpiles several months of supply, bucking the trend on just-in-time manufacturing. And it supplies drugs that the market has failed to reliably produce.”

We Desperately Need the Civica Rx Model for Digital Health Transformation

“We need the Civica Rx of digital health transformation. To fix this broken landscape, we need to democratize data transformation and create a common public infrastructure for healthcare data. Civica Rx has demonstrated how the model can work: health systems banded together to develop a new business framework, like a health utility.”

Civica Rx Partnership Helps Baptist Get Needed Medicines

“Because of our partnership, we had access to all the drugs we needed to help us navigate through the difficulties we had to deal with, without having to deal so much with drug shortages to really focus on what we needed to do for our patients.”