(Fort Worth, TX) — HEALTHPOINT®, Ltd., a Texas-based market leader in surgical, tissue management and dermatology, today announced the creation of an educational program for 2003 in association with PharMerica, a subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) and one of the long-term care industry’s leading providers of pharmaceutical services to nursing home residents.

        Working together, HEALTHPOINT and PharMerica will provide a comprehensive national educational program for physicians, nurses, and consulting pharmacists to promote the understanding and practice of advanced wound care. The joint educational initiative represents a commitment by both companies to improve the clinical knowledge and expertise related to wound management in the long-term care setting. Eight educational programs are planned nationwide.

        “Our partnership with PharMerica strengthens each company’s desire to continuously provide educational programs that will meet the needs of all customers in the wound care community,” said HEALTHPOINT Healthcare Systems Director, Danny Joyner. The comprehensive educational program will award 1.0 continuing education hour to attendees.

        “The continued professional development of long-term care practitioners is important to PharMerica as we strive to ensure they have all the necessary tools to be effective providers in caring for the frail and elderly,” explained Rob Godwin, PharMerica’s National Director of Clinical Program Development. “Our alliance with HEALTHPOINT will help us meet this goal by promoting safe and effective wound care to long-term care facilities across the country.”

        Since its inception in 1992, HEALTHPOINT has established a U.S. presence in the research, development, and marketing of branded pharmaceuticals, over the counter drugs, and medical devices for tissue management, dermatology, and surgical. An aggressive research and development effort has brought HEALTHPOINT’s unique technologies to the market, setting the pace for its highly trained field sales organization of direct sales representatives. HEALTHPOINT, with over 250 employees, is a DFB Pharmaceuticals, Inc. affiliate company based in Fort Worth, Texas.

        Also headquartered in Fort Worth, DFB provides technology-driven products, outsourcing services and licensing opportunities to the healthcare industry worldwide through its affiliate companies, contract partners, and branded marketing organizations.

        About PharMerica

        PharMerica is a leading provider of institutional pharmacy services to the elderly, chronically ill and disabled in long-term care and alternate site settings, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, specialty hospitals and residential living communities. PharMerica is a subsidiary of AmerisourceBergen Corp. (NYSE: ABC), the leading distributor of pharmaceutical products and services to the hospital systems/acute care market, physicians’ offices, alternate care and mail order facilities and independent community pharmacies and regional chain pharmacies.