American Fork, Utah -- July 10, 2006 - Nine health care facilities in the western U.S. are the latest to select NovaPACS, by NovaRad Corporation, for their image management needs.

Newly signed hospitals include:
- 109-bed Havasu Regional Medical Center, Lake Havasu, Ariz.
- 26-bed Bear Lake Memorial Hospital, Montpelier, Idaho
- 243-bed Memorial Medical Center, Las Cruces, N.M.
- 12-bed Pioneer Memorial Hospital, Heppner, Ore.
- 28-bed Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, Snoqualmie, Wash.

Newly signed health centers include:
- Navajo Health Systems, Montezuma Creek, Utah
- Navajo Health Systems, Blanding, Utah
- StatClinix Urgent Care, Show Low, Ariz.
- Emergent Care Center, Newbury Park, Calif.

"These facilities require the most efficient, up-to-date equipment available to provide the best patient care and an affordable system that makes acquiring and maintaining a PACS feasible," said Paul Shumway, senior vice president at NovaRad, "While our affordable pricing set us apart in the initial search that was performed by the facilities, the features, flexibility, training, and service that comes with NovaPACS solidified their decision to choose NovaRad."

About NovaRad Corporation
For more than a decade NovaRad, www.novapacs.com, has filled the niche of providing a full range of affordable PACS, RIS, CR and peripherals to small and medium-sized hospitals and radiology centers. The privately owned company based in American Fork, Utah currently has installations of its products at more than 250 sites nationwide. NovaPACS systems are suited for any size hospital from small, single-site facilities to multi-site national hospital and radiology groups. NovaPACS is the only PACS to be rated in the top three PACS in the KLAS PACS Community Hospital 2005 report and in the KLAS PACS Ambulatory/Imaging Center 2005 report.

More Voices