Established Model for Duplication "Show Site"

The management of the Company has been successful introducing PET imaging technology into Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, a Community Hospital in Niagara Falls, NY. The hospital was contemplating applying for a certificate of need for an angiographic laboratory and was unable to differentiate their services from cross town competition or from the larger tertiary centers in Buffalo. Cardiac PET provided the hospital an alternative to traditional methods of detection and management of coronary disease. The management of the Company established a coronary artery disease reversal and prevention program to compliment an innovative approach to inserting PET into the heart attack diagnosis in the emergency room. The hospital was also able to start a much needed oncology imaging program fusing CT images for better tumor localization.

The hospital sits within the worst coronary disease death rate county in the United States and has gained local, state and federal grants due to the one year reduction in heart attack related deaths. (see chart). The red bar indicates the incidence of death from heart attack in patients presenting to the emergency room, note this is well above the state average. The green bar represents a reduction to below the state average after PET was introduced as well as being below the cross town competition that does not have PET services.

The introduction of Cardiac PET into this system successfully interrupted the unnecessary loss of inpatient to larger hospitals in order to rule out coronary disease by an angiogram. Patients who were transferred to the larger institution tended to return to that institution for ancillary services setting up for a destructive algorithm that is threatening community hospitals across the country today. PET technology, with very high accuracy, allows for patient to be retained within the hospital and stops the loss of ancillary services. The improved diagnostic ability of the hospital combined with an innovative approach to disease management actually drives more patients into the front doors and attracts new patients from cross town competition as well as the larger metropolitan areas who lack reversal programs. Niagara Medical Center was able to construct a new heart center in only two years after PET was introduced. The hospital was able to secure local, state and federal funding due to the exceptional turn around.