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Huntington Beach, CA, August 1, 2007 — St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA is the first hospital within the St. Joseph Health System to go live with the Patient Safety Lighting System (PSLS), having recently installed the LED fiber optic lighting system in the patient rooms on the Oncology and Medical Pulmonary units. The new lighting system is designed to improve overall patient care and comfort, as well as to help meet the 2005 JCAHO Goal for Hospitals to "reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls." St. Joseph Hospital partnered with SafeTGlow on the installation — the Huntington Beach firm will then work with hospitals in Orange County and nationwide to bring the advanced lighting system to patient rooms.

SafeTGlow improves lighting of the physical environment and patient spatial orientation by:

• Providing a frame of reference whereby the patient can more quickly identify their surroundings and know where they are at all times.
  
  
• Providing illumination of pathways to and from the bathroom.
  
  
• Providing the required illumination for completion of many nursing tasks, reducing the need to use conventional lighting that can disrupt sleep.
  
  
• Withstanding extreme conditions (e.g. tornado, earthquake, hurricane, etc.) to provide continued illumination.

Installation of the SafeTGlow system is anticipated to reduce the risk of patient falls. JCAHO studies reveal that approximately 45% of patient falls result from the physical environment, with the majority of these occurring at night. Committed to ensuring patient safety, St. Joseph Hospital has installed SafeTGlow as part of a comprehensive fall reduction strategy that also includes ongoing staff training and patient/family education.

Recognized for delivering high quality clinical outcomes for their patients, St. Joseph Hospital has served the communities of Orange County for more than 76 years and is a values-based Catholic healthcare provider with a tradition of and commitment to excellence based, on the vision of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. St. Joseph Hospital recently achieved the Magnet Hospital status in January 2007. For more information, visit www.sjo.org.

About SafeTGlow:
SafeTGlow provides innovative and energy efficient fiber optic and LED lighting solutions to the healthcare, residential, and commercial industries. SafeTGlow represents the very latest in fiber optic and LED lighting technology with products that are safe, durable, versatile and energy efficient. For more information visit, www.safetglow.co.

Source: SafeTGlow