DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 30, 2026--
HemoSonics LLC announced today that it will be honored during Premier’s annual Supplier Innovation Celebration at its 2026 Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition. The Innovation Celebration recognizes groundbreaking healthcare technologies launched throughout the year and highlights how these products help improve the health of communities.
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“Premier’s recognition of the Quantra Systems clearance in Obstetrics reinforces our commitment to delivering rapid, actionable coagulation insights when managing acute bleeding across diverse patient populations,” said Francesco Viola, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of HemoSonics. “In obstetric care, these insights can help clinical teams make timely, evidence-based decisions for mothers experiencing or at risk of postpartum hemorrhage.”
The Quantra ® Hemostasis System with QStat ® Cartridge received FDA 510(k) clearance in August 2025 for use in peripartum obstetric procedures. The system provides a rapid, comprehensive assessment of a patient’s coagulation status at the point of need, with results typically available in less than 15 minutes. It is the first and only viscoelastic testing platform that is FDA-cleared for obstetric bleeding.
Premier’s Innovation Celebration is entering its 15 th year of recognizing and honoring healthcare supplier innovation. More than 600 suppliers exhibit at the Breakthroughs Conference each year. Winners are selected by a national committee of clinicians, physicians, and supply chain experts who evaluate each technology and its impact on patient care.
“Premier recognizes HemoSonics for its commitment to moving healthcare forward,” said Bruce Radcliff, President of Supply Chain Services at Premier. “Recognized at our 2026 Innovation Celebration, HemoSonics’ newest products and services reflect our shared mission to transform healthcare through improving efficiency, quality, and patient outcomes. We are proud to work with HemoSonics and commend them for their continued innovation.”
Premier is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers and payers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence, and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, advisory services, and other solutions in service of our mission to improve the health of communities.
About HemoSonics
HemoSonics, LLC is a medical device technology company focused on acute bleeding management, improving patient care, and reducing overall medical costs. The Quantra Hemostasis System, HemoSonics’ flagship product, is designed to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs by providing optimized coagulation information. The Quantra System’s easy, fast interpretation enables simple, more efficient bleeding management at the point of care and in the laboratory.
Based in Durham, N.C., HemoSonics is part of the Stago Group, a leading in vitro diagnostics company dedicated to advancing research in thrombosis and hemostasis. Follow HemoSonics on LinkedIn or visit HemoSonics.com to learn more.
The First & Only Viscoelastic Testing System FDA-Cleared for Peripartum Obstetric Procedures
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pressed its missile and drone barrage of Kyiv and areas around the Ukrainian capital, killing four people, including a child, while mainly targeting the power grid, officials said Wednesday.
Moscow’s steep escalation of its aerial campaign since the end of August is putting pressure on Ukraine as it braces for winter, when Russia regularly bombards energy facilities to deny Ukrainians heat, power and running water.
The heavy overnight attack caused power outages and prompted questions about whether it marked the start of Russia's anticipated cold weather campaign, which Ukrainian officials describe as an attempt to “weaponize winter.”
“There has been virtually no day since summer when the enemy did not attack energy infrastructure,” Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said on Telegram. “But such a massive and combined attack happened for the first time since the end of the last heating season.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha noted the increase in Russian strikes has brought “days of almost uninterrupted air raid alerts across Ukraine.”
“Russia is intensifying its terror: jet-powered drones during the day, ballistic and cruise missiles at night, constant attacks against our cities and civilian life,” Sybiha said on X.
Ukrainian officials say Moscow is not engaging with U.S. efforts to halt the fighting, 4½ years after Russia invaded its neighbor. Moscow says it wants a comprehensive settlement rather than a temporary truce, but its demand for Ukraine to surrender land is unacceptable for Kyiv.
A boy was killed and three other people were rescued from the rubble of a private home in Vyshhorod, a city in the wider Kyiv region, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration.
The attacks also killed three people in the capital and wounded at least four others, according to authorities.
Russia fired 2,850 jet-propelled drones at Ukraine in August but by Tuesday it had already launched 3,177 this month, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said.
Russia has exploited gaps in Ukrainian air defenses by firing ballistic missiles and new jet-powered drones, both of which are hard to stop. Air raid alerts are disrupting daily life, sending people running for shelter and denting economic output.
The attacks come in waves, Ihnat told Ukrainian television late Tuesday, mostly aimed at Kyiv and the surrounding region. Ukraine needs more missiles for U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems to counter ballistic missiles and for other ground-based air defenses, he said.
The main Russian targets were energy infrastructure in Kyiv and the surrounding region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media, describing it as “a difficult attack” as Moscow stretches Ukraine's air defenses.
Zelenskyy thanked foreign countries supporting Ukraine for recent deliveries of air defense help. “And the closer we get to winter, the more of this protection we need," he said. "We must do everything to ensure that Russia’s bet on ballistic missile and drone terror does not pay off.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said its overnight attack hit a hydroelectric and a thermal power plant, an electrical substation, an energy storage facility and a data center.
Ukrainian officials didn’t specifically confirm those strikes, as Kyiv wants to deny Moscow intelligence about the effectiveness of its attacks. Authorities reported hits on civilian areas of at least four Kyiv districts.
Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.
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A boy looks at fragment of a rocket in front of a residential house destroyed in a Russian missile strike on Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Rescue workers put out a fire at a residential house destroyed in a Russian missile strike on Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, rescuers put out a fire in a garage destroyed after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv region, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, rescuers put out a fire affecting garages destroyed after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv region, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, a rescuer walks on a site of a Russian drone strike on residential house in Kyiv region, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
