CareView executes agreement with Health Management Associates

Mar 9 2011

CareView Communications, Inc. ("CareView" or the "Company") (OTCBB: CRVW), an information technology provider to the healthcare industry, announced today the execution of an agreement with Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HMA), whose corporate offices are located in Naples, Florida. Under the agreement, Health Management engaged CareView to provide the CareView System^® in its patient rooms throughout its hospitals. Health Management owns or operates fifty-nine hospitals in fifteen states with approximately 8,900 licensed beds.

The CareView System^® is a suite of products that brings the information technology of the 21^st century directly to patients, families and healthcare providers by connecting them through one easy-to-install and simple-to-use system. This collaboration will allow Health Management to provide:

• The ability to implement audit tools to ensure that quality standards are being met and safety measures are being complied with while both are used to further educate caregivers at Health Management's hospitals to continually enhance quality and safety for their patients.
• Doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers with the ability to efficiently and cost-effectively monitor, treat and visit their patients.
• Family members and friends with the ability to use the Internet to monitor, visit, and correspond with their loved ones who are patients at Health Management's hospitals.
• Patients and their visitors with direct access to on-demand high-speed Internet and first run movies in their rooms.

"It was rewarding to us, that after an evidenced-based study of the CareView System^® and particularly our Virtual Bed Rails™ application, that Health Management agreed to move forward with us. Our goal is to work with those who are committed to providing high quality patient care in the safest environment possible, while meeting and exceeding the guidelines established by CMS, JCAHO, caregivers and patients for both the current standard and the expectations of all the stakeholders within the industry," said CareView's CEO Samuel A. Greco.