Cardinal Health Malta recently won seven awards from its parent company, Cardinal Health, for excellence in performance and service. At its annual meeting, Cardinal Health Malta was the recipient of the following awards: Plant Achievement Award, Service Level Award, Cost Reduction Award, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Award, EHS Excellence Award, and EHS Performance Award.
“Thanks to a leadership winning-mindset, such phenomenal success was the result of a highly-engaged workforce working together as a cohesive whole,” said Eucharist Baldacchino, director of manufacturing. “Every employee in this organisation played and will continue to play a role in the company’s success. We’re able to achieve this level of success because of our employees’ dedication.”
Cardinal Health Malta has won a total of 21 awards from its parent company since it began participating in the awards programme in 2002. Prior to its recognition at the company’s annual meeting, the Malta facility also won the Cardinal Health VIP Award for Materials Management Strategy.
“Malta Enterprise has played a ‘pivotal’ role in assisting Cardinal Health Malta since the start-up phase in 1995,” said Mr Baldacchino. “It has maintained focus on several key factors such as tax credits on investments and grants that have helped stimulate capital investments and support the rapid development of the Malta facility over the past 16 years.”
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. is a $103 billion health care services company that improves the cost-effectiveness of health care. As the business behind health care, Cardinal Health helps pharmacies, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centres and physician offices focus on patient care while reducing costs, enhancing efficiency and improving quality. Cardinal Health is an essential link in the health care supply chain, providing pharmaceuticals and medical products to more than 60,000 locations each day. The company is also a leading manufacturer of medical and surgical products, including gloves, surgical apparel and fluid management products.
In addition, the company supports the growing diagnostic industry by supplying medical products to clinical laboratories and operating the nation’s largest network of radiopharmacies that dispense products to aid in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Ranked 19 on the Fortune 500, Cardinal Health employs more than 30,000 people worldwide.