July 8, 2007

Crothall Selects Awarix to Bring Advanced Patient Throughput Solution to Hospitals

Relationship blends Crothall Service Excellence and Reputation for Quality with Awarix Leading Patient Care Visibility Software

Crothall, the leading provider of hospital facility and support services, and Awarix, the leading provider of enterprise patient care visibility software, have partnered to bring a combined solution to the healthcare market for improved patient flow, operational efficiency, and patient quality of care.

The new offering, which will be marketed by Crothall to its over 600 hospital clients, is intended to provide Awarix’s visual controls and enterprise patient throughput software to help hospitals better manage an ever increasing patient volume.  With flat screen monitors installed throughout the hospital, Awarix enables any hospital team member to see the status of every in-patient room and observation suite instantly.  The age-old challenges of “holding beds” or “slow discharges” become obsolete in the Awarix hospital.  

Crothall CEO Bobby Kutteh says “Our mission has always been to provide our customers with the highest quality services, and to help them improve their operating margins while increasing patient satisfaction.  Awarix fits perfectly in our portfolio, and will complement our current technology and service offerings while adding even greater value to our customers as a true enterprise patient flow solution.”
 
Awarix has already implemented its technology in prestigious healthcare organizations such as Ascension Health Systems, Catholic Healthcare West, Catholic Health Partners, and Tenet, demonstrating significant operating efficiencies and revenue improvements at every facility.

Scott McFarland, Awarix CEO and President, states, “We’re excited to have been selected to partner with Crothall.  Their reputation for superior quality and service excellence has developed a strong customer base with very high satisfaction.  We look forward to helping those customers achieve greater patient throughput and improved operating margins.”

Awarix provides a unique enterprise patient care visibility model designed to provide mobile workers like nurses, physicians, environmental services, and patient transportation personnel real-time information about patient status and hospital capacity.  By engaging every hospital employee in the care process, patient care quality improves, and the patient experience is greatly enhanced.  Awarix and Crothall have already delivered this combined offering to Brookwood Medical Center (Birmingham, AL), Oakwood Medical Center (Dearborn, MI), and Mobile Infirmary (Mobile, AL).

About Crothall
Founded in 1991, Crothall Services Group is the leading quality provider of comprehensive facility and support services to over 1,000 customers, including over 600 hospitals.  Crothall’s managers are healthcare specialists, focused on delivering the highest quality programs for the greatest value.  Crothall’s experts deliver custom programs far more efficiently than a hospital can on its own, allowing hospitals to focus on their core competency – caring for patients.  Crothall’s services include Environmental Services, Laundry & Linen, Patient Transportation, Facilities Management, and Clinical Equipment Services.

About Awarix, Inc.
Awarix was founded in 2003 by an experienced team of healthcare technology professionals.  Awarix is the leading enterprise patient care visibility system, a new category of health care technology that provides hospitals a communication platform to reliably deliver accurate, real-time information to all participants in the patient care process.  The Awarix system provides an enterprise hands-free communication network allowing clinicians and other users to determine exactly what is happening with patients simply by glancing at large screen displays.  With the Awarix system, health care providers have been able to quickly increase revenues via increased capacity, eliminate emergency department diversion, improve patient care quality and enhance employee and patient satisfaction.