WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 3, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — SurgLine International, Inc.today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, SurgLine, Inc. (“SurgLine”) supplied its first spinal implants for a spine surgery at the end of January. SurgLine selected Spine and Joint Solutions, Inc. (“SJS”) as its distributor for the procedure. SJS is a distributor of spinal implants in the greater Los Angeles healthcare market and currently provides products and services to four healthcare providers in Southern California, working closely with six neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons to offer their patients the highest quality medical devices at the lowest possible cost. SJS and the Company are presently working together for it to become a stocking distributor of SurgLine in order to expand their customer base throughout Southern California to all those healthcare providers in need of the highest quality spinal and orthopedic implants at the lowest possible cost.
Tristan Tagnipez, President of SJS, stated, “We are very pleased to be able to offer the very highest quality surgical implants available from SurgLine to our network of surgeons and healthcare providers at the lowest possible cost. Everyone involved respected the quality of implants from SurgLine during the very first surgery using SurgLine products. Using SurgLine we can offer a lower cost to our customers when they need competitive pricing because of SurgLine’s effort to drive cost from the distribution of medical products.
“We believe that working with SurgLine is the key to rapid near term revenue growth for Spine and Joint Solutions as all healthcare providers are seeking to slash their costs of providing care to their patients without sacrificing quality of care. I look forward to becoming a stocking distributor of SurgLine’s full spinal implant line of products.”
Mr. Tom Toland, CEO of SurgLine was quoted as saying, “We are very excited that we can work with distributors such as Spine and Joint Solutions who are concerned with helping surgeons and healthcare providers deliver positive patient outcomes at the lowest possible cost for patient. The future of quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost to the patient depends on distributors working closely with surgeons and providers to lower costs without reducing quality of care. We believe that Spine and Joint Solutions will represent SurgLine in the best possible manner while rapidly growing their base of business due to their key surgeon and provider relationships throughout Southern California.”