VAUGHAN, ON, December 12, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- PRISM MEDICAL LTD. (TSX-V: PM) ("Prism") announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Prism Medical Services USA, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., has been selected as a preferred by Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROi), the group purchasing organization for the Sisters of Mercy Health System ("Mercy"). Prism Medical Services USA was awarded a contract to supply lifting, transferring, and repositioning equipment and clinical consulting services to Mercy, one of the largest Catholic healthcare systems in the U.S. The contract emphasizes the commitment that Mercy has to providing a safe working environment for employees and patients throughout the health system. Mercy is headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., and has 18 acute care hospitals and 2 heart hospitals with over 4,000 beds and 31,000 employees within its seven state service area.
Charles H. Wallace, Jr., President of Prism Medical Services USA stated, "The Sisters of Mercy Health System is one of the most committed healthcare organizations we have seen when it comes to providing safe working environments. They have highly capable people driving this initiative and we are very pleased to be working with them. As a partner looking in, I can tell you they should be pleased with their work to this point because they are doing exactly the right things to get the results they want to achieve."
Prism Medical Ltd. is a provider of durable medical equipment and related services to the mobility disadvantaged in Canada, the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom. Prism Medical Services USA designs, manufactures, installs and services Waverley Glen Systems and ErgoSafe Products, North America's premier lines of patient lift systems and repositioning and transfer aides, doing business since 1986 with over 50,000 installations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
About Prism Medical
For more information about the patient lifts and repositioning/transferring products, visit http://www.prismmedicalltd.com.
A provider of durable medical equipment including patient lifts, bed repositioning products and bathing equipment in Canada, the USA and the United Kingdom (UK).
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