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New approach to long-term patient care reduces risk by keeping imaging on-premises and eliminating transport to other hospitals for diagnostic scans

THE VILLAGES, Fla. & DANVERS, Mass – Samsung NeuroLogica Corporation, the healthcare subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and a leading provider of advanced imaging solutions, announced today that Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages has installed the BodyTom 32-slice portable computed tomography (CT) scanner into its long-term acute care (LTAC) facility. After six successful months of piloting the BodyTom at The Villages, Promise hospitals in Miami and Fort Myers also installed their own BodyTom scanners.

In long-term acute care facilities, patients often suffer from conditions that make transport to local hospitals a risky process. Having a BodyTom at a long-term care facility eliminates the risk and expense of ambulance transport for patients in need of CT scans and whose conditions can include ventilator care, high-cost/high-dose antibiotics, complex wound care and other needs that complicate moving them off-premises.

“It’s hard for any patient to take an ambulance ride, and when most of our patients come out of critical-care or intensive-care settings – they often have a list of conditions that fill almost two pages,” said hospital CEO Hoyt Ross. “Having the BodyTom on-premises could reduce some patients’ length of stay because it sometimes takes time for them to recover from the trip and get back to baseline.”

Promise chose the BodyTom over larger, stationary CT scanners because it requires less overhead for new construction and infrastructure. Ross said that the BodyTom will also be used by patients in the community on a referral basis, opening access to a new outpatient resource in The Villages and surrounding towns.

BodyTom, the world’s first portable, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, is a multi-departmental imaging solution capable of transforming any room in the hospital into an advanced imaging suite. The System features an 85cm gantry and 60cm field of view, the largest field of view available in a portable CT scanner. Uniquely designed to accommodate patients of all sizes, BodyTom provides point-of-care CT imaging wherever high-quality CT images are needed, including the LTAC settings, operating rooms, intensive care units, radiation oncology suites and emergency departments.

“The BodyTom offers features and portability especially suited for facilities like Promise Healthcare’s. It was chosen instead of a typical fixed CT installation that would have required prohibitive capital outlay,” said Philip Sullivan, Samsung NeuroLogica President and CEO. “The BodyTom will help to reinforce Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages’ commitment to delivering high-quality and safe patient care.”

Source: Business Wire

About Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages
Promise Healthcare is a specialty hospital post-acute care health system. With 18 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals, two skilled nursing facilities and more than 5,000 staff members, Promise Healthcare utilizes an interdisciplinary approach in providing treatment for critically ill and medically complex patients. Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages, a Medicare-certified LTAC hospital, provides comprehensive services including medicine and nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, ventilator management and weaning, dialysis, specialized wound care and nutritional support. For more information on Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages, visit www.promise-villages.com. For more information on Promise Healthcare, visit www.promisehealthcare.com.

About NeuroLogica
NeuroLogica, the healthcare subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., develops, manufactures and markets innovative imaging technologies and is committed to delivering fast, easy and accurate diagnostic solutions to healthcare providers. NeuroLogica, the global corporate headquarters and manufacturer of computed tomography, is also the U.S. headquarters for sales, marketing and distribution of all Samsung digital radiography and ultrasound systems. NeuroLogica’s growing portfolio of advanced medical technologies is used worldwide in leading healthcare institutions. They help providers enhance patient care, improve patient satisfaction and increase workflow efficiency. Samsung is committed to being leaders in the field of healthcare imaging. For more information, please visit www.SamsungNeuroLogica.com.

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies, redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, cameras, digital appliances, printers, medical equipment, network systems, and semiconductor and LED solutions. We are also leading in the Internet of Things space through, among others, our Smart Home and Digital Health initiatives. We employ 307,000 people across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 billion. To discover more, please visit our official website at www.samsung.com/ and our official blog at news.samsung.com/global/.