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Morrow County Hospital selects PHNS

DALLAS, TX- June 2, 2006 –  Morrow County Hospital, a 53-bed community healthcare facility located in beautiful Mt. Gilead, Ohio, has selected PHNS to provide an onsite audit of the outpatient coding division of its Health Information Management (HIM) department.  PHNS will provide Morrow County Hospital with a thorough review of outpatient medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, and also will provide any necessary recommendations and education to the coding staff. 

About Morrow County Hospital:  Morrow County Hospital is a fully accredited, not-for-profit, hospital that has been providing the residents of Morrow County, Ohio with the highest quality patient in a wide range of specialties including: Cardiopulmonary Services; Emergency Services; Intensive & Progressive Care; Laboratory; Medical/Surgical; Physical; Occupational and Speech/Hearing Therapy Services; Radiology; Sleep Lab; and Surgery.  As Morrow County’s only hospital, the team of healthcare professionals at Morrow County Hospital also provide valuable services to their community such as: CPR training, babysitter training courses for teenagers, free sports physical exams to student athletes, and diabetic group education classes to name a few.

About PHNS:  PHNS provides comprehensive healthcaring solutions for hospitals including information technology, health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services) and receivables management services.  Serving more than 400 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology, providing capital dollars and increasing cash on hand.  This allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care.  PHNS is a national healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.  See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.