Owens & Minor announced organizational updates relating to its pending acquisition of Halyard Health, Inc.’s Surgical & Infection Prevention (S&IP) business, which was announced on November 1, 2017. The company announced that Stuart Morris-Hipkins, who has served as Executive Vice President of Owens & Minor’s Global Manufacturer Services since joining the company in March 2017, has been promoted to President, Global Solutions for Owens & Minor. A senior executive with more than 20 years of global leadership experience, Stuart previously worked for Smith and Nephew, PLC, where he served from 2014 to 2017 as Senior Vice President and General Manager. In other actions, the company also announced that Nicholas J. Pace has been promoted to Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Communications. Pace, who joined Owens & Minor in 2016, previously served as Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Owens & Minor.
Owens & Minor, Inc. is a global healthcare solutions company providing essential products and services that support care from the hospital to the home. The Company operates through two segments: Products & Healthcare Services and Patient Direct. The Products & Healthcare Services segment offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to healthcare providers and manufacturers. Its portfolio of medical and surgical supplies includes branded products purchased from manufacturers and its own proprietary products. Its service offerings to healthcare providers include supplier management, analytics, inventory management, and clinical supply management. It also offers a variety of programs providing outsourced logistics and marketing solutions to its suppliers as well. The Patient Direct segment provides delivery of disposable medical supplies sold directly to patients and home health agencies and a provider of integrated home healthcare equipment and related services.