INTEGRIS Health System Enters Three Year Contract for SurgiCount's Safety-Sponge(TM) System Technology across Its Entire 11 Hos
2006年8月8日 - 4:35AM
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SurgiCount Medical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Patient Safety
Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:PST), announced today that it has entered
into a three-year agreement to provide its patented
Safety-Sponge(TM) System for the prevention of retained sponges
after surgery to the entire network of INTEGRIS Health System,
Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health care organization. This
new contract will take the Safety-Sponge System from two hospitals
currently to the entire network which includes eleven hospitals.
Financial terms were not disclosed. "We're very happy that INTEGRIS
has become our first health care system to incorporate SurgiCount's
Safety-Sponge System network-wide," said Bill Adams, Chief
Executive Officer of SurgiCount, "and we're extremely pleased with
the rate of adaptation of the System." SurgiCount Medical received
FDA 510(k) clearance to market and sell its Safety-Sponge System in
March 2006, and is the only computer-assisted system for counting
sponges cleared by the FDA. The Safety-Sponge System is an
integrated turn-key program of thermally affixed, data matrix
tagged surgical sponges, line-of-sight scanning technology, and
documentation that offers surgeons and hospitals a solution to
gossypiboma -- the term for surgical sponges accidentally left
inside a human body after surgery. Based on estimates and
assumptions made by Patient Safety Technologies management,
gossypiboma occurs in an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 surgical
procedures each year in the United States alone, and liability
settlements and other costs related to retained sponges amount to
an estimated $500 million to $750 million annually. About INTEGRIS
Health INTEGRIS Health owns, manages or leases hospitals, primary
care clinics, mental health facilities, rehabilitation centers,
fitness centers, hospice services, home health agencies and
independent living centers throughout the state of Oklahoma.
INTEGRIS Health is an Oklahoma-owned, not-for-profit corporation.
Our mission is to improve the health of the people and the
communities we serve. More information about INTEGRIS Health
facilities and services is available on our home page at
www.integrisOK.com or by calling the INTEGRIS HealthLine at (405)
951-2277 or toll free at (800) 951-2277. About SurgiCount and the
Safety-Sponge(TM) System SurgiCount Medical's Safety-Sponge System
works much like a grocery store check-out system. Every surgical
sponge and towel is pre-labeled by the manufacturer with an
individual and unique bar coded label, and a scanning counter is
used to read and record the labels. No change is required in a
hospital's established counting procedures: sponges are counted and
recorded by the system at the beginning of the procedure and again
as they are removed from the patient. For more information, visit
www.surgicountmedical.com. About Patient Safety Technologies, Inc.
(AMEX:PST) Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (PST) is a holding
company that owns assets in various businesses. Its wholly-owned
subsidiary, SurgiCount Medical, Inc., is a developer and
manufacturer of patient safety products and services. For more
information on Patient Safety Technologies, Inc., please contact
the company directly at 310-895-7750, or by email at
info@patientsafetytechnologies.com or
www.patientsafetytechnologies.com. Forward-Looking Statements This
press release contains certain forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such
because the context of the statement will include words such as
Patient Safety Technologies plans, expects, should, believes,
anticipates or words of similar import. Stockholders, potential
investors and other readers are cautioned that these
forward-looking statements are predictions based only on current
information and expectations that are inherently subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause future events or results to
differ materially from those set forth or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Certain of those risks and
uncertainties are discussed in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K and
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. These forward-looking statements
are only made as of the date of this press release and Patient
Safety Technologies does not undertake any obligation to publicly
update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events
or circumstances.
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