Charitable Contributions Process Statement at Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP)

ASP Educational Grants and Goodwill

ASP is committed to providing high quality products and services to health care professionals and patients and to supporting the communities in which we work and live.

Medical science evolves rapidly with new information becoming available constantly. As part of the health care system, we understand the need to support health care professionals in their pursuit of the most current education to provide the best patient care possible and recognize that our collaboration with physicians can lead to important medical advances. There is further need to support patients, caregivers, and communities to ensure that they have the information and products required to live healthy and productive lives.

We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards to ensure that our interactions with health care professionals, institutions and non-profit organizations are conducted in an appropriate manner. To that end, we regularly review and improve our practices as part of an ongoing commitment to ensure ethical and transparent interactions with medical professionals.

Our primary focus is making life-changing, long-term differences in human health and disease management for those who may be helped by the products and services we provide. The purpose of our disclosure of payments on this site is to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to this endeavor. It is our hope that this disclosure will help the general public to better understand the nature and volume of programs that we support in the interest of advancing patient care and supporting local communities.

Charitable Contributions Process Statement

"We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well. We must be good citizens - support good works and charities and bear our fair share of taxes. We must encourage civic improvements and better health and education. We must maintain in good order the property we are privileged to use protecting the environment and natural resources."
-Our Credo

A charitable contribution includes cash or product donations. A cash charitable contribution is a financial donation that is philanthropic in nature and provided to a non-profit organization to support a specific community-based (or regional/national) program, project, or event. A product donation is provided through specific product giving programs to non-government organizations generally responding to disasters, medical relief efforts and basic health care needs in under-served communities.

All requests are reviewed by a multidisciplinary committee, which may include Medical Affairs, Health Care Compliance, Public Affairs, Human Resources, and Legal, as necessary. Recipients must be tax-exempt organizations with an appropriate federal tax-exempt status. Requests should include the organization's mission statement, IRS tax status, project/event description, description of how the funds will be used, project budget (if applicable) and annual operating budget (if applicable).

The following types of requests are generally not eligible for charitable contributions:

Organizations that do not have a valid federal tax-exempt status
Scholarships to individuals
Direct contributions to individuals or physician practices
Loans
Trips or tours
Endowments of any kind
Sectarian and religious organizations that do not serve the general public on a nondenominational basis
Capital requests (building funds, endowments, multi-year commitments)
Political, fraternal or athletic groups

Product contributions must be used in the manner defined below:

Product contributions will only be placed with licensed medical and health care professionals;
Product contributions cannot be transferred in exchange for money, other property or services;
Product contributions cannot be used for research, experimental, or demonstration purposes;
Product contributions cannot be billed to any third party payor (public or private); and
For purposes of disclosure and reporting, product contributions are valued at the Company's list price.

Please submit your requests for charitable contributions to HCCReview@its.jnj.com.