1. Medivance® Inc. Arctic Sun Products are the Preferred Choice of the Top‐10
U.S. News & World Report 2011‐12 Honor Roll Hospitals
The top‐10 of the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll Hospitals use the Medivance® Inc. Targeted
Temperature Management™ products. The list, released July 19 online and available on newsstands through
November 29, is the most comprehensive annual ranking of the nation's top medical centers.
Louisville, CO, ‐ September 13, 2011 ‐ Building on a track record of serving the nation's top ranked hospitals,
Medivance® Inc. is pleased to announce the top‐10 of the U.S. News & World Report's 2011‐12 Honor Roll
Hospitals are all users of its Targeted Temperature Management™ product, the Arctic Sun®. The
announcement was made by Robert Kline, President & CEO, who stated, "It is often said that you are known
by the company you keep, and we are honored to be affiliated with the top tier of U.S. News' Honor Roll
Hospitals. The Medivance Team is very proud of this achievement."
Body temperature, systematically measured and reported as a vital sign, contributes to maintenance of
normal physiology and affects the processes leading to recovery after illness. Intentional manipulation of body
temperature has therefore emerged as a key treatment strategy for hospitals. The Medivance® Arctic Sun®
brings precision Targeted Temperature Management™ to the highest level of performance available today for
intentionally manipulating body temperature as a treatment strategy.
"Our Arctic Sun® 5000 is really the only product in the market that can achieve, with precision, a prescribed
order set for temperature management with consistency for each patient. This is of particular importance in
the hospital environment for Continuous Quality Improvement , thus it's not surprising the top ten Honor Roll
hospitals make use of our technology," Kline explained.
The top‐10 of the U.S. News & World Report 2011‐12 Honor Roll Hospitals include: Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Cleveland Clinic; Ronald
Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; New York‐Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and
Cornell, N.Y.; UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, N.C.; and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The list was of 17 hospitals was released July 19 online and available on newsstands through November 29.
Quoting the U.S. News website: "A place on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll is reserved for medical centers that
demonstrate unusually high expertise across multiple specialties, scoring at or near the top in at least six of 16
specialties. Just 17 of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated for the 2011‐12 rankings qualified. Hospitals with
the highest scores in a given specialty received 2 Honor Roll points; those with slightly lower scores received 1
point.* Honor Roll standing was determined by the total number of Honor Roll points across all 16 specialties."
For more information, visit: http://health.usnews.com/health‐news/best‐hospitals/articles/2011/07/18/best‐
hospitals‐2011‐12‐the‐honor‐roll.
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In June, Mr. Kline received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Mountain Desert Award in the
Health Care & Life Sciences category. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding
entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial
performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Mr. Kline was selected by an
independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at the Denver Center for the
Performing Arts on June 16, 2011. For more information, visit: http://www.medivance.com/pr_2011‐06‐
21.htm.
About Medivance® Inc.
Medivance®, founded in 1998, has grown from a pure start‐up to market leadership in the rapidly expanding
field of Targeted Temperature Management™ therapy. The company's flagship Arctic Sun® Temperature
Management System has been utilized to treat tens of thousands of critically ill patients throughout the world.
Medivance employs over 50 employees in the Boulder Valley and nearly 100 worldwide. For more
information, visit: http://www.medivance.com.
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Contacts:
Myria Crawford, Medivance® Inc. Director of Marketing, 303.327.5161 or 303.717.5562,
mcrawford@medivance.com
Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR ‐ Absolutely Public Relations – http://www.absolutelypr.com – 303.669.3558,
maggie@absolutelypr.com