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Pacer Health Corporation Reopens South Cameron Rural Health Clinic; South Cameron Rural Health Clinic Becomes First Medical Facility in Cameron Parish to Return to Full Service Following Hurricane Rita.


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, Fla. -- Pacer Health Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB

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: PHLH), an owner-operator of acute care hospitals, rural medical centers and psychiatric care facilities, today announced the reopening of South Cameron Rural Health Clinic in Cameron Parish, Louisiana Cameron Parish (French: Paroisse de Cameron) is the parish with the most land area in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Cameron and as of 2000, the population is 9,991. It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area. , after severe structural damage caused by Hurricane Rita Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005.  forced the original facility's closure in late September.

The clinic's physical location had sustained sufficient damage to render it unsafe for the long-term provision of healthcare services, and a new facility has been established in Grand Lake at 786 Highway 384, Lake Charles, Louisiana
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Lake Charles
 70607.

South Cameron Rural Health Clinic becomes the first medical facility in Cameron Parish to reopen at a permanent physical location since the second-most powerful storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season devastated dev·as·tate  
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.

2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.
 the area on September 25. Pacer Health management reports that as of today, all direct and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services  at South Cameron Rural Health Clinic have been restored to pre-hurricane operating levels and all staff have returned to work on their usual schedules at the new facility.

"Today's reopening is a significant milestone in reestablishing permanent healthcare in Cameron Parish," said Rainier Gonzalez, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Pacer Health. "As the final step towards completely restoring healthcare services in Cameron Parish to pre-Hurricane Rita capacity, Pacer Health management is working diligently with FEMA FEMA,
n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency.
, the Lower Cameron Parish Hospital Authority and local elected officials to build a replacement facility for South Cameron Memorial Hospital, our second of two facilities here and the sole community provider of hospital services in the parish."

South Cameron Hospital Rural Health Clinic is a medical out-patient center located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. It provides out-patient and doctor's office services to the more than 10,000 residents of Cameron Parish as well as the area's several thousand oil and gas exploration personnel, commercial and recreational fisherman.

About Pacer Health Corporation

Pacer Health Corporation is an owner-operator of acute care hospitals, medical treatment centers, and psychiatric care facilities primarily serving non-urban areas in the Southeastern United States. Please visit http://www.pacerhealth.com for more information.

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Date:Jan 31, 2006
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