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Continental and Good Samaritan Hospital Enter Home Healthcare Supply Agreement.


VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 1999--

Continental Home Healthcare Ltd. (the "Company")(VSE See DOS/VSE.

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.) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Continental Hospital Supply Corporation, has entered into an agreement with Good Samaritan Hospital Good Samaritan Hospital may refer to:

In the United States:
  • Good Samaritan Hospital (Bakersfield) — Bakersfield, California
  • Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles) — Los Angeles, California
 of Los Angeles, California to provide home medical equipment, respiratory therapy services, and other related products and services to hospital patients discharged from Good Samaritan Hospital to the homecare environment.

The Company is extremely pleased to have been selected to enter into this agreement over other regional and national Home Medical Equipment organizations. This latest agreement further solidifies Continental Hospital Supply Corporation as one of southern California's leading medical equipment companies.

To facilitate the services listed in the agreement, Continental Hospital Supply Corporation will employ a "hospital liaison" who will spend forty hours per week at Good Samaritan Hospital to coordinate delivery of medical equipment from Continental to patients at the time of discharge.

This agreement is similar to other agreements the Company has entered into in the greater Los Angeles area The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is the agglomeration of urbanized area around the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. There are two "official" definitions—the Los Angeles metropolitan area consisting only of the Los Angeles and Orange , resulting in impressive sales gains for its US operations. In the last year, Continental Hospital Supply Corporation has entered into numerous formal agreements with local hospitals, national insurance companies, and regional and national managed care organizations including AETNA US Healthcare, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 Medical Group, Universal Care and Blue Shield/Care America, among others. The impact of these agreements have resulted in a greater than 50% increase in sales at the Company's Glendale, California branch.

Continental Home Healthcare Ltd. is a provider of durable and home medical equipment to individuals and healthcare institutions with branches in Glendale and Indian Wells, California Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,816.

It has the highest proportion of millionaires of any city in the United States.
; Las Vegas, Nevada; and British Columbia, Canada.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

ROBERT THORNTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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