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Bear Valley Community Hospital Selects PHNS for Remote Coding Services

DALLAS, TX - December 28, 2007 - Bear Valley Community Hospital (Bear Valley), a community hospital serving Big Bear Lake, California, has chosen PHNS to provide comprehensive medical coding services for Bear Valley’s Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Bear Valley with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform medical record coding through Bear Valley’s HIPAA compliant virtual private network.

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 Bear Valley Community Hospital: Bear Valley Community Hospital is a 30-bed hospital that offers 24 hour emergency care, acute respiratory care, inpatient medical care, both in and out-patient surgery, laboratory, physical therapy, skilled nursing facility and two rural health clinics. See www.bvchd.com for additional information about Bear Valley.

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.