• Meridian Expands Sumner Regional Medical Contract

(Tallahassee, FL / January 09, 2008) Meridian Healthcare Group, Inc. ("Meridian") has entered into an agreement to extend its management of the cardiopulmonary services at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Wellington, Kansas. Wellington the Sumner county seat is located in southern Kansas.

“Meridian has provided cardiopulmonary services to Sumner Regional Medical Center since 1990. “We are pleased that the hospital’s Board of Directors elected to continue to work with Meridian to the meet the community’s medical needs for respiratory care, “said Tom R. Futch, Meridian President & CEO. Last year Meridian and Sumner Regional Medical Center expanded their partnership by the development of an outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation clinic that provides therapy services to patients afflicted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Meridian also distributes oxygen and medical equipment to homebound residents of Sumner county through its homecare subsidiary Golden Care.

Meridian Healthcare Group, headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, is a nationally recognized leader in the field of pulmonary medicine providing services to patients in thirty-eight states.

As one of the largest providers of contract therapy and disease state management in the United States, Meridian has built a national network of clinical programs in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient clinics, homecare centers, polysomnography laboratories and respiratory pharmacies.

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