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North Cypress Medical Center Selects PHNS' Health Information Management Services

DALLAS, TX- November 28, 2007 - North Cypress Medical Center (North Cypress), a 92-bed, general acute care hospital, located in Houston, Texas, has chosen PHNS to provide interim management services for the Health Information Management (HIM) department.

PHNS' HIM Division currently provides interim staff placement, coding, auditing, education, release of information, records management and transcription services for over 385 healthcare customers. All services are offered on an 'as needed' basis or on a full service outsourcing relationship.

About North Cypress Medical Center: North Cypress was founded by local physicians who wanted to create a sophisticated, upscale, patient-friendly healthcare environment for their community. Services include the latest, state-of-the-art medical technology and equipment, well-respected area physicians, and an upscale 5-star hotel-like ambience. See www.ncmc-hospital.com for additional information about North Cypress.

Advocate Health Care: Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, is the largest fully integrated not-for-profit health care delivery system in metropolitan Chicago and is recognized as one of the top 10 systems in the country. Tracing its beginnings back 100 years, Advocate has eight hospitals with 3,500 beds and the state's largest privately held full-service home health care company among its more than 200 sites of care. More than 24,500 people work at Advocate, making it one of Chicagoland's 10 largest employers and the fourth largest in the private sector. With more than 4,600 affiliated physicians, including almost 2,000 in physician hospital organizations (PHOs) and about 475 in three large medical groups, Advocate has Chicago's largest economically aligned physician network. Advocate's primary academic and teaching affiliation is with the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Center. Related to both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate's mission is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of God. To guide its relationships and actions, Advocate embraces the five values of compassion, equality, excellence, partnership and stewardship.

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), advisory and receivables management services. Serving more than 425 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology 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.