Advanced ICU Care Appoints C. Thomas Smith as Board Member

ST. LOUIS (July 11, 2007) - Advanced ICU Care®, a company connecting critical care physicians (intensivists) and nurses to hospital ICU patients using telemedicine technology, today announced that it has added C. Thomas Smith to its board of directors.

"We are pleased to have Tom, who has led some of the nation's best hospitals and other influential organizations, as a member of our board," said Mary Jo Gorman, M.D., chief executive officer for Advanced ICU Care. "A respected leader in the healthcare industry, Tom's perspective and dedication to improving clinical performance will be invaluable as we continue to deliver intensivist care to ICU patients across the country. His longtime focus on achieving improved patient care and safety, implementing quality initiatives, and delivering lower costs for patients and hospitals echoes the mission of our organization and our work to improve patient care in the ICU through access to critical care expertise."

With more than 30 years experience in healthcare administration, Smith currently serves on the boards of several healthcare companies. Until retirement in 2003, Smith served as president and chief executive officer of VHA Inc., a national healthcare provider alliance of more than 2,400 organizations. Previously, Smith was president and chief executive officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut and Yale-New Haven Health Services Corp. Earlier in his career, he held administrative positions at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis and Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Among many other career accomplishments and appointments, Smith served as chairman of the American Hospital Association and has earned many prestigious honors within the healthcare industry.

Joining Smith on Advanced ICU Care's board are Mary Jo Gorman, M.D.; David Schopp, Advanced ICU Care president and COO; Tim Peterson, managing partner of Arboretum Ventures; and Bruce Quade, managing director at Catalyst Capital Management.

About Advanced ICU Care

Advanced ICU Care is a medical service company that provides high-quality remote critical care to patients in the intensive care units (ICU) of community hospitals. Through experienced clinicians, supported by cutting-edge telemedicine technology, and a process improvement program, Advanced ICU Care provides continuous ICU patient monitoring and improved care and safety outcomes to critically ill patients across the country. Hospital ICUs are linked with Advanced ICU Care's eICU® Operations Center in St. Louis, Missouri through a technology platform developed by VISICU, allowing Advanced ICU Care's board-certified intensivists (critical care medicine physicians) and critical care nurses to monitor hospital ICU patients from a central location. Founded to improve access to critical care expertise, deliver best practices to patients by leveraging telemedicine technology, and establish intensivists as the standard of care, the Advanced ICU Care program delivers around-the-clock critical care specialists, dramatically improving patient care.

For more information, visit: www.icumedicine.com.

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