August 25, 2008

 

NEWS ALERT! Temecula, Ca. — August, 2008 — SurgiCount Medical, Inc., a division of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:PSTX), today announced that it received the Small Business Supplier of the Year from the Presource Products and Services business of Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care.  The award was presented at the Cardinal Health National Sales Conference held in Orlando, Florida, August 10-12, 2008. During the conference, Cardinal Health recognized several of its medical-surgical suppliers for demonstrating excellence in service, quality and supply chain innovation.

“We are very honored to have received this prestigious award from Cardinal Health’s Presource team” said Bill Adams, CEO of Patient Safety Technologies and SurgiCount Medical.  “We have established a very successful partnership with Presource, which allows us to bring a proven solution for retained surgical sponges to the marketplace.  Our mutual customers are realizing the significant patient safety and economic benefits of the system, so we expect our market leadership position to continue to expand rapidly.” SurgiCount’s Safety-Sponge™ System consists of individually bar-coded surgical sponges and a portable scanner that enhances traditional manual sponge counts. The system is used by healthcare institutions around the country, including The University of San Francisco Medical Center, Shands at the University of Florida, Loyola University Health Center, Chicago, Integris Health System and Jackson Memorial, among many others.  About SurgiCount Medical

SurgiCount Medical, Inc., a division of Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:PSTX), manufacturers the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge™ System, a patented FDA 510k approved turn key solution to retained surgical sponges. The system is comprised of surgical sponges and towels affixed with an inseparable two-dimensional data matrix bar code and a SurgiCounter scanner to record each sponge before and after an operation. The SurgiCount Safety-Sponge™ System is also the only retained sponge prevention system to offer complete sponge inventory tracking, reporting features and integration with a medical facility’s IT system. For more information, contact SurgiCount at (951) 587-6201, or visit www.surgicountmedical.com.