Advanced ICU Care ranks among Modern Healthcare’s “100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare”

ST. LOUIS (October 30, 2008) - Modern Healthcare has named Advanced ICU Care on its list of the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare." Advanced ICU Care ranks number 26 among the top 100 companies, and number 21 among the 80 healthcare providers who made the list. The complete lists and related stories are available at www.modernhealthcare.com.

"We take great pride in creating a workplace where people want to be - where employees have the support to provide the best possible care and service to patients and our customers," said Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, chief executive officer of Advanced ICU Care. "We work hard to attract, retain and motivate top talent, who can be at their very best for patients. In short, satisfied employees make for satisfied clients."

Advanced ICU Care supports employee education and training, paying 100% of the costs associated with CCRN-certification and awarding pay increases once nurses achieve certification. Efforts in this area have been rewarded: all of Advanced ICU Care's nurses are CCRN-certified. Certification validates nurses' experience and knowledge in critical care, helping them to provide a supportive and educational environment for local bedside nurses, notes Gorman.

Providing support and an extra layer of care is part of the job for Advanced ICU Care nurses, who - along with the company's intensivists - use eICU technology® to provide 24/7 remote monitoring for ICU patients in hospitals across the country.

Advanced ICU Care scores high marks from employees on leadership and communication. The company has developed a quarterly reward program for nurses and implemented cross-functional committees focused on improving workflows and procedures, helping to create a rewarding environment and strengthen collaboration between staff and leadership.

"The management team here values communication - with the entire staff and with each other," said Nan Lennartz, critical care services office manager for Advanced ICU Care. "The company's mission is clear from the moment you first begin working here, and we all work together towards the same goal - to extend critical care expertise and improved outcomes to ICU patients - regardless of our role within the company. I'm not surprised by Advanced ICU Care's place among the top companies to work for in healthcare. It's a great place to work."

In developing the list, Modern Healthcare partnered with Best Companies Group, a firm that administers "best places to work" programs nationwide. The ranking was based on two criteria: an analysis of company policies and practices, benefits and demographics, and the opinions of company employees. The employee survey covered core areas such as leadership and planning, culture and communications, role satisfaction, working environment, pay and benefits, and training and development.

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. 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

For more information, contact:
Donya Hengehold
314-276-4995

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