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	How Many Hospitals in Southern California Received the Top 100 Hospital^® Award? Only 1 . . . Pacific Alliance Medical Center We are honored to be a 2006 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals^® Performance Improvement Leader. We believe this recognition is proof positive that our new approach to patient care is making all the difference. We call it 360-degree patient care^® and only Pacific Alliance Medical Center has it. Beyond integrated, 360-degree patient care^® provides our patients with coordinated care that starts long before they need hospitalization. In fact, it begins with our dedicated team of outreach clinicians who go out into our community neighborhoods and help our patients understand their health care needs; and then, help them get the right medical treatment – from diagnosis through treatment. Our patients say they appreciate the ongoing guidance. This is one of the reasons we believe we are now a 100 Top Hospital^®. The other? Our exceptional Programs of DistinctionÓ: • The Center for Wound Healing • California Spine & Joint Care • Acute Rehabilitation Visit Pacific Alliance Medical Center and see for yourself why we are a Top 100 Hospital^® 213-437-4209 www.pamc.net Thomson’s 100 Top Hospitals^® Performance Improvement Leaders’ study rated U.S. hospitals for eight factors, including patient safety, medical complications, profitability, and growth in patient volume.

	NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pacific Alliance Medical Center has been recognized as a community value Five-Star hospital Los Angeles, CA –– (May 18, 2007) Pacific Alliance Medical Center (PAMC) was recently recognized as a top-ranked Community Value Provider by Cleverley + Associates, a leading healthcare financial consulting firm specializing in operational benchmarking and performance enhancement strategies. The firm released the findings as part of its new publication: State of the Hospital Industry — 2007 Edition. “All of us at PAMC are deeply honored to be recognized by our industry as a hospital that provides value to its’ community,” said John Edwards, CEO. “It validates our staff’s hard work. But most of all, it reaffirms our commitment to making PAMC a great hospital.” Written by William O. Cleverley, Ph.D., a noted expert in healthcare finance, the State of the Hospital Industry reports selected measures of hospital financial performance and discusses the critical factors that lie behind them. The publication focuses on the US acute-care hospital industry over a three-year time period (2003-2005). For the fourth year, the 2007 State of the Hospital Industry reports an exclusive measure: the Community Value Index^TM (CVI). The CVI is a proprietary index created to offer a measure of the value that a hospital provides to its community. The book outlines the data used to calculate the CVI as well as provides a list of the Top 100 and all Five-Star (top quintile) hospitals. “The topic of healthcare value is increasingly being discussed. Recent highlights on hospital performance and pricing have driven the dialogue; however, interested parties have been looking for objective information regarding the issues”, adds James Cleverley, co-author. “In response, the Community Value Index^TM was created to provide an assessment of a hospital’s performance in three areas: financial strength and reinvestment, cost of care, and pricing. Fundamentally, the CVI suggests that hospitals, like PAMC, that are low cost, low charge, and use financial resources efficiently for reinvestment back into the provision of healthcare are operating with a high degree of community value.” ABOUT PACIFIC ALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER For almost 150 years, Pacific Alliance Medical Center has “pursued a vision of excellence to be the best” in Los Angeles. It is this vision that has inspired the hospital to assemble a first-class team of physicians, nurses, and technicians and to develop services and programs that are specially attuned to the needs of the community. The142-bed general acute hospital offers a wide range of services and medical specialties, including: · General Medical and Surgical · Intensive Care Service · 24-hour Urgent Care · Maternity and Gynecology · Pulmonology · In-patient Rehabilitation · Cardiology · 24-hour transportation is provided for Urgent Care patients In addition, PAMC is home to two signature centers: · California Spine and Joint Care · The Center for Wound Healing ABOUT CLEVERLEY + ASSOCIATES Cleverley + Associates is a Columbus, Ohio-based healthcare data and consulting services firm specializing in custom data analyses and reporting for healthcare providers, consultants, and vendors. The company’s primary focus is to provide healthcare providers with solutions and recommendations that will enhance their financial performance through better pricing decisions; improved coding, capital restructuring, cost and productivity enhancements; and/or investment management changes. For more information, please contact Pacific Alliance Medical Center at (213) 437-4209.

	The Grand Opening of the All-New Maternity Center on February 23, 2007 "Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked" Chinese Proverb Brochure In continuing with Pacific Alliance Medical Center’s history of providing excellent maternity care, we have remodeled the maternity center and are have added an additional 6,500 square foot wing that features state-of-the-art equipment throughout. This new facility houses an expanded nursery with 22 new bassinets, 4 labor suites, a 4-bed recovery unit, and 2 delivery suites that can accommodate emergency surgeries so you won’t have to be moved to another room. In addition, the new Women’s Services Center has 4 private LDRP rooms, so you and your family can experience the entire birth process together, as if in the comforts of your own home. One of the most important choices to make when you are pregnant is where to have your baby. Choosing to have your child at the new Pacific Alliance Women’s Services Center will give you access to the very best in prenatal and postnatal care. You and your new baby will be treated with kindness and will receive excellent care throughout each phase of your pregnancy that will include education, personal comfort and the expertise of highly qualified professionals trained in the care and delivery of newborns and their mothers.
	The Wound Care Program Meeting the challenges of chronic wounds Specializing in the provision of integrated, multi-disciplinary, professional medical and surgical treatment of chronic diabetic, pressure and vascular wounds. Facts About Wound Care and Treatment Sometimes, despite your best efforts and close medical supervision patient’s wounds don’t heal. * Non-healing wounds can lead to infection, morbidity, amputation and mortality…. * Every year, chronic diabetic, pressure and vascular wounds affect 3 to 5 million Americans. * Chronic wound care costs are estimated to be as high as $20 billion per year across the health care continuum. * Wounds that won’t heal are costly in dollars and in terms of human suffering. But there is HOPE. The PAMC Wound Care Program (WCP) is working to improve these statistics. Studies have shown that wound care treatment programs utilizing the latest advances in technology and delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of experts have reduced amputation rates significantly, improved wound-healing rates and reduced the length of stay during acute hospitalization. See Our BROCHURE
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