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September 25th, 2009
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Lisa Brodsky
AccentHealth
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FLORIDA MEDICAL PRACTICE WINS $30,000 WAITING ROOM MAKEOVER

AccentHealth announces Block and Nation, PA a medical practice in Oviedo, Florida as the Grand Prize Winner of their yearlong Honors Program /h3>

Tampa, FL, September 23, 2009 - AccentHealth, the leading health media company providing patient education television programming in 12,000 doctors' offices throughout the United States, announced today that Block and Nation, PA, a medical practice in Oviedo, Florida is the Grand Prize Winner of their annual Honors Program.

The Honors Program, celebrates AccentHealth's 12,000 national practices' commitment to patient education and dedication to maximizing the impact of every patient's office visit. Not only do these practices provide state of the art education to their patients, but they also create an environment of comfort and learning for patients as they wait to see the doctors. In order to enter to win a grand prize of an office waiting room makeover, donated by Steelcase International, offices needed to complete a monthly entry form and answer health-related questions from the AccentHealth show correctly.

Block and Nation, PA, a primary care medical practice with four physicians, is scheduled to receive the Grand Prize makeover this month. The makeover includes a complete waiting room redesign with new painting, furniture, window treatments and accessories from Nurture by Steelcase, the global office furniture leader focussed on making healthcare environments more comfortable, efficient and condusive to the healing process.

"We are so excited to have won this amazing prize," said Theodora Castor, Practice Administrator at Block and Nation PA who sent in the winning entry. "Our waiting room furniture was bland and boring. We can't wait to see the new layout - we are confident it will improve our patient's overall experience."

The new waiting room layout is specially designed to be patient-centered and improve the overall quality of the office visit. Nurture by Steelcase's philospshy is to focus on healthcare environments as a whole and how the elements within those environments can help make thw waiting room more conducive to a patients' healing and overall well-being.

"We designed this patient-centered waiting room with comfort and relaxation in mind," said Libby Ferin, Director Experience Marketing and Communications of Nurture by Steelcase. "We're excited for the doctors, office staff and patients to experience it. We know the impact will be significant."

AccentHealth will air a segment on the waiting room makeover on the January 2010 show. It will feature before and after waiting room shots and explain the new layout. "We hope that our member offices will be able to learn something from the design and layout that Nurture is creating for Block and Nation, PA.," said Edith Hodkinson, President of AccentHealth. "We expect it will be extremely useful and help other offices create optimal waiting room setups."

AccentHealth, LLC
AccentHealth, LLC is America's leading Health Media Company offering advertisers multiple consumer touch points in physician waiting rooms. The AccentHealth Waiting Room TV Network, produced in conjunction with CNN, reaches 154 million viewers annually in 180 Nielsen markets. The programming features content on a variety of topics, including medical breakthroughs, condition-specific segments, parenting issues, nutrition, fitness, safety and wellness. AccentHealth has won recognition from the Telly Awards, the Cindy Awards, the American Academy of Nursing, the Health Information Awards and the Society of Professional Journalists. Visit www.accenthealth.com.


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