Private Healthcare Systems Adds Los Ninos Hospital - Arizona's Only Respiratory Syncytial Virus Synagis Clinic - to Its Network

Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS), the nation's leading health care cost management company, today announced the addition of the Los Ninos Hospital to its PPO Network.

The Los Ninos Hospital is a 15-bed, family oriented hospital specializing in high quality acute and sub-acute care for infants, children and teens. The hospital offers a lower cost alternative for inpatient care and specialty services previously only available in the area in a large medical complex. The services offered at Los Ninos Hospital also include speech, physical and occupational therapy, Arizona's only Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Synagis clinic, Innovative Home Health Care, and hospital based outpatient services.

"We are very pleased to add the Los Ninos Hospital to the PHCS Network," said Keith Vangeison, PHCS Executive Vice President, Networks. "The facility is a valuable addition to our customer's members."

About PHCS

For 20 years, Private Healthcare Systems has been meeting the network and care management needs of customers across the country. Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices located throughout the United States. The largest national proprietary PPO, the PHCS Network includes nearly 450,000 providers and more than 4,000 facilities. PHCS is the first and only national PPO to earn four endorsements of quality from two independent, nationally recognized quality assurance organizations, NCQA and URAC.

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