Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare To Host Disaster Response Demonstration

Louisville, KY (July 24, 2007) — Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare hosted a one-of-a-kind internal preparedness exercise on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. For the first time, a hospital was able to integrate multiple software platforms, which are used in the day-to-day operations of the facility, to respond to a mock disaster in an effort to improve its actual response capabilities.

The exercise, Operation Rapid Response, demonstrated synergies in advanced technologies, which are used on a daily basis. These technologies, in addition to their normal daily use, enable organizations to quickly access critical information and respond effectively during a major disaster.

Hospital staff responded to a historically-based scenario using FacilityOne, a solution used by Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare for day-to-day facility management, seamlessly integrated with advanced software platforms from Tridium and iMapData.

These web-based solutions were used by incident commanders to provide timely and accurate weather-related and infrastructure data to management, personnel and first responders. Incident commanders were also able to monitor and control critical infrastructure at multiple healthcare facilities in real-time, without digging for blueprints or being tied to a location-based computer.

“Having accurate information in the critical minutes around any crisis is imperative. Our goal at JHSMH is to identify technologies to be used in an instant at our command center and to receive factual information in seconds instead of hours following a major disaster,” said Stephan French, vice president of JHSMH Facilities Development. “JHSMH is a leading healthcare provider. We are also taking the lead in healthcare disaster preparedness. As we continue to expand our reach in Kentucky and southern Indiana, we want to test and be assured that we are able to handle a disaster at all of our locations by combining technologies for our city, especially for key infrastructures.”

“JHSMH and its partners are taking a quantum leap forward with Operation Rapid Response's effort to harness the power of technology to provide critical information to all those who need it, when they need it, in the event of a regional disaster,” said Grace Mastalli, former Director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Information Sharing and Collaboration Office. “Since eighty-five percent of the nation’s critical infrastructure resources reside in the private sector and the vast majority of emergency services are state and local, homeland security truly depends upon business leaders and communities nationwide preparing to respond and recover from foreseeable hazards in today's complex world.”

About Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) is a regional health care network that includes 70 health care facilities and 1,900 patient beds in Kentucky and southern Indiana. The merger of Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services and CARITAS Health Services to form JHSMH combines the strength and honors the heritages of the two organizations to provide a complete array of health care services to this region and beyond, including hospitals, outpatient care, nursing home care, occupational health, psychiatric care and rehab medicine. JHSMH provides home health care to families in 41 Kentucky and southern Indiana counties, occupational health mobile services to 30 Kentucky counties, and employs a network of physician practices that provide both primary and specialty medical care. The organization employs more than 8,100 people.

About FacilityOne
FacilityOne transforms any facility (retail, office buildings, manufacturing, hospitals...) into the ultimate facility. That’s because FacilityOne is a web-based Facility Management solution that enables both executive management and front line operations people to document, manage, control and assess the facility and its systems. More intuitive and dramatically less expensive than traditional solutions, FacilityOne’s SmartPrint® technology puts you in control of every asset, helping you to maximize uptime and efficiency. For more information, visit www.facilityone.com or call (877) 626-7643 or (502) 719-1399.

About iMapData
iMapData, a ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) company, delivers secure, web-based decision support solutions to clients at all levels of government and throughout the private sector. The service includes more than 1,000 regularly updated, geo-referenced data layers that can easily be correlated with clients’ proprietary data for comprehensive, timely analysis. Clients can instantly generate intuitive, information-rich maps and reports to facilitate superior decisions and effective communications. ChoicePoint provides technology, software, information and services to help businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations manage economic and physical risks. For more information, visit www.choicepoint.com/imapdata or call (703) 760-9729.

Tridium, a global software and technology company, is the inventor of the Niagara Framework^®, a software framework that integrates diverse systems and devices - regardless of manufacturer, or communication protocol - into a unified platform that can be easily managed and controlled in real time over the Internet using a standard web browser. Niagara is an extensible platform that supports the rapid development of a wide range of Internet-enabled products and device-to-enterprise applications.

Manufacturers adopt the Niagara Framework technology to move their products to the web, reduce development time, migrate legacy systems, develop new service offerings, and open up new markets. System integrators use Niagara products to provide true open solutions without regard for specific protocols, products or technologies. Today, there are over 83,000 instances of Niagara operating in over 6,500 installations worldwide in applications that include: energy management, building automation, M2M, telecommunications, security automation, lighting control, maintenance repair operations (MRO), service bureaus, convergence retailing and total facilities management. The company is an independent business entity of Honeywell International Inc. Additional information about Tridium is available at www.tridium.com.

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