Cardinal Well being Inc. (NYSE: CAH) has simply opened a facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The corporate not too long ago opened its largest distribution heart to help its Cardinal Well being at-House Options enterprise to this point.

The Greenville, South Carolina, facility fills a key hole within the firm's distribution, Jamie Deist, vp of warehouse operations for Cardinal Well being at-House, instructed House Well being Care Information.

“We had some gaps between our services in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, and extra importantly, we knew we needed to be within the Southeast, given the rising inhabitants,” he stated. “Greenville additionally provides us entry to close by rising metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Charlotte, even up into Nashville.”

Cardinal, primarily based in Dublin, Ohio, is a distributor of pharmaceutical merchandise and a producer and distributor of medical and laboratory merchandise. The corporate’s at-home enterprise unit gives direct-to-home success and distribution providers within the dwelling medical tools (HME) trade, in addition to in dwelling well being care and hospice.

The corporate has taken steps to strengthen its place within the dwelling care sector by way of varied partnerships.

In 2022, Cardinal launched a provide chain pilot program with Medically House.

Final 12 months, Cardinal partnered with Signify Well being to offer medical providers and drugs administration within the dwelling.

Presently, Cardinal has 11 distribution facilities positioned all through New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, California, Oregon and South Carolina.

The corporate's Greenville location is 350,000 sq. ft. It's the second time the corporate has been constructed from the bottom up.

Deist famous that Greenville was strategically chosen primarily based on its lengthy historical past of producing and distribution.

“There are expert employees available in the market that we will attain out to and that may assist us achieve success,” he stated.

This new division additionally allows Cardinal to satisfy the rising demand for dwelling care.

“After we take into consideration the inhabitants that we serve — sufferers with continual illnesses or essential sickness — we’ve got to be ready for that progress as they age,” Deist stated. “We've seen vital progress inside our enterprise during the last 10 years and we anticipate that to proceed into the longer term. We’d like this headroom to develop throughout all of our product classes.”

In line with Deist, Cardinal sees this warehouse because the distribution heart of the longer term.

“We’ve designed and constructed it not just for our future wants, it additionally has some heavy automation purposes, and to make sure that we will develop on this space for years to come back,” he stated. “It additionally provides our workers the flexibility to be productive and environment friendly with top quality requirements, given the automation that we’ve invested in.”