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CMH Regional Health System Adopts Quantros for Event Management and Reporting

Quantros Software Supports Commitment to Saving Lives and Reducing Risk

September 22, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - CMH Regional Health System 95-bed, community hospital, in Wilmington, OH, announced it will use the Quantros Safety and Risk Management solution (SRM), an electronic self-reporting, event tracking, monitoring and workflow management tool designed to support a culture of safety and reduce risk.

The hospital selected Quantros, a leading provider of safety and quality software and professional services solutions for the healthcare industry, to especially focus on medication event capture and improvement. The organization cited the Quantros application’s user- friendly format, the reporting engine and cost effective pricing as key priorities in making the decision. In addition, Quantros staff provided technical support and education supporting CMH in preparing a grant application.

Cardinal Health Foundation awarded CMH a grant to support the acquisition of the Quantros SRM™ solution and the identification of how an online reporting system will help improve medication safety.

“As an organization dedicated to patient safety, we want to identify safety events in real-time and to immediately implement and monitor corrective action,” said Amy L. Donaldson RN, MSN, Performance Improvement Director. “This helps us investigate and fix the root causes of the events,” she added. “We need an easy way to enter events electronically and compile them quickly. With Quantros, we have that capability; the one page entry is very intuitive and easy to use.”

"CMH’s selection of Quantros SRM highlights the benefits of ease of entry, integrated data and workflow management and reporting, along with a team of clinical experts who support implementation and training." noted Chris Bethell, Vice President, Marketing and Product Development, Quantros, Inc. "We are pleased to have CMH select Quantros.”

About Quantros

Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, more than 2,000 healthcare facilities are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

Quantros team members include physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals. We are a healthcare information management technology company with a difference; our key product decisions are driven by experts in healthcare quality and performance improvement, safety, compliance, risk management and nursing. Visit Quantros on the web at www.quantros.com.

About CMH Regional Health System and Clinton Memorial Hospital

With 95 staffed beds, more than 950 employees, and a medical staff of more than 225 in 35 specialties, CMH Regional Health System offers a full range of medical services, including emergency, acute care, oncology, obstetrics and gynecology, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, surgical services, corporate health, home care, a sleep lab, wound care, pediatric and adolescent services, dental care and a family medicine residency program affiliated with the university of Cincinnati.

To learn more about the health system’s history and its ties to the community, go to www.cmhregional.com.