Fletcher Flora Press Release

Fletcher Flora, Inc. Announces Agreement with Shriners Hospitals for Children for LabPak® LIS systems

Ten of Shriners Hospitals for Children facilities implement Fletcher Flora’s LabPak® LIS system to help reduce cost and increase productivity.

ANAHEIM – October 11, 2003 – Shriners Hospitals for Children, a network of 22 hospitals that provide expert orthopaedic and burn care to children under 18, implemented Fletcher Flora’s LabPak® LIS systems to help reduce costs and improve efficiency. Shriners is using LabPak® LIS systems in ten of their facilities across North America, some of which had no prior LIS system.

Mark Williams, Corporate Liaison for Laboratory Standardization at Shriners Hospitals for Children, praised Fletcher Flora for “getting the LabPak systems up very efficiently and providing the flexibility to modify system specifications as needed.” He also noted that “even the new interface requirements were no problem for your installation team.”

“Our interaction with Fletcher Flora has been very positive,” said Joyce Dicks, Director of Clinical Lab Services at Shriners Cincinnati Burn Hospital. "We are especially pleased with LabPak's quality control module, which is easy to navigate and provides data in both graphical and chart formats."

“We were able to deploy LabPak at all ten facilities in a matter of less than 3 months,” said Ken Mitchell, VP of Sales and Marketing at Fletcher Flora. Mitchell adds that, this is one of Fletcher Flora’s strengths, the ability to implement systems quickly and help shorten the time to ROI dramatically. This is a big challenge in the industry, one that Mitchell feels Fletcher Flora meets exceptionally well.

About Shriners Hospitals for Children
Shriners Hospitals for Children is a network of pediatric specialty hospitals, founded by the Shrine, where children under the age of 18 receive excellent medical care absolutely free of charge. There are 18 orthopaedic Shriners Hospitals, three Shriners Hospitals dedicated to treating children with severe burns, and one Shriners Hospital that provides orthopaedic, burn and spinal cord injury care. Shriners Hospitals are located throughout North America — 20 in the United States and one each in Mexico and Canada. These "Centers of Excellence" serve as major referral centers for children with complex orthopaedic and burn problems.