"Safety is on the agenda of every hospital executive around the globe," said Sam Adams, St. Croix Systems President and CEO. "In today's healthcare delivery system the patient is at the center of a network of clinicians, medical devices, equipment and facilities and each and every interface contains opportunity for error. With Safety Manager we have integrated the clinical and administrative disciplines fundamental to a health system's environment of care and in doing so provide a complete incident and risk management solution."

With Safety Manager, healthcare providers can expect:
- A single-source for consistently collecting, tracking and correcting hospital risk and safety incidents.
- Real-time data related to assets, environmental hazards, training requirements, and equipment hazard notices and recalls.
- A repository for data needed for internal/external regulatory reporting.
- A solution that systematically monitors incidents reported and auto-escalates until action to resolve is taken.
- Tools to create specific hospital, environment of care and JCAHO performance indicators and seamlessly reporting on these indicators at all levels; the overall health system, individual hospitals, departments, down to a single asset, including equipment.
- A solution that allows for the integration of hospital life safety codes as well as statement of condition standards coupled with reporting capabilities to measure the hospital's effectiveness against these standards.

In healthcare where standardized processes and procedures are critical, Safety Manager keeps key hospital personnel, including facility managers, biomedical engineering, patient safety directors, and risk managers, consistently informed and better prepared to respond to and resolve safety issues, including those required to be monitored and reported on by such governing bodies as JCAHO and the FDA.

"Safety only happens when reporting is translated into action and with Safety Manager our customers now have a fully documented process giving them the security and systematic approach needed to managing all safety data, information and reporting," says Adams. "With Safety Manager we are leading the way for healthcare providers to integrate current hospital life safety codes and standards with a safety and incident reporting solution and allowing them to assess the hospital's overall safety performance relative to defined metrics and their overall statement of condition."

St. Croix Systems selected HIMSS as the announcement venue because of the 22,000 healthcare professionals and hundreds of exhibitors that will be in San Diego during the week of February 12 - 16, 2006. Visit Booth #6145 for a demonstration of Safety Manager and other St. Croix Systems solutions. For more information or to schedule a press meeting during the HIMSS conference, please contact Becky Nies at 612.850.0739 or bnies@stcroixsystems.com.

About St. Croix Systems
St. Croix Systems is the leading provider of software and services designed to integrate the core functions of asset management, asset logistics, safety management and capital planning for healthcare providers world-wide. Our capital asset lifecycle management solutions enable active control of the planning, acquisition, tracking, maintenance and retirement of capital assets supported by Web-based decision support tools resulting in improved operating and capital performance and an enhanced environment of care. St. Croix Systems is the only vendor to support all of these key capital asset activities in a complete, integrated solution.

Contacts
St. Croix Systems
Becky Nies
612-850-0739; bnies@stcroixsystems.com