• Knowledge and experience in researching markets for quality, service and price

• Established accounts with reputable vendors

• Medical and office supplies kept on site for same day delivery of most requested items

• On-line ordering and other Internet services

• Participate in the Voluntary Hospital Association (VHA) Physician Link contracts

• Novation contracts direct with manufactures of vaccines

• Prebooking and planning pharmaceutical orders

• Verizon OGS and AT&T VHA discounted rate telephone contracts

• Contracts negotiated and held by SLHA on large equipment shared by physicians

• Capital Equipment owned by SLHA

- medical and office equipment

- software and hardware upgrades

- integrated telephone and computer systems

• Advertising

- Display ad layout for newspaper advertising

- Web page design for the Internet

- Group listings in established venues for ad placement (i.e., physician listing in yellow pages and the annual medical directory

- Individual physician advertising as requested