PRESSRELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SSM Health Care - St. Louis

Contact:
John C. Smith, Chief Executive Officer
TMA Systems, LLC
5100 East Skelly Drive, Suite 900
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135
(918) 858-6600
john.smith@tmasystems.com

Contact:
Jim Degnan, Contract Manager
SSM Health Care - St. Louis
1015 Corporate Square, Suite 160
St. Louis, Missouri 63132
(314) 989-2040
jim_degnan@ssmhc.com

SSM Health Care Selects WebTMA as Their CMMS

 

PRESS RELEASE. TULSA, OK, March 12, 2009 – SSM Health Care-St. Louis, one of the premier medical facilities in the Midwest, announced today the selection of TMA's maintenance management system for their Facilities and Operations Department. SSM Health Care will utilize WebTMA for online work requests, managing their preventive maintenance program, and to better manage their regulatory compliance reporting.

 

John C. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of TMA, stated, "We're very pleased that SSM Health Care chose to partner with TMA. It is the partnerships we have with organizations, such as SSM Health Care, that continue to make us the leading CMMS provider for the healthcare industry."

About TMA Systems (www.tmasystems.com)

TMA Systems, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a leading provider of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) that include desktop and web-based solutions.  These solutions automate and streamline maintenance operations; providing cost-effective methods that ensure reliability and increase productivity for organizations.  Worldwide, more than 1,300 TMA clients maintain in excess of 37,000 facilities, representing 2.5 billion square feet of space. These world-class organizations have a deep appreciation of the complexity and challenges of managing facilities. Their bottom-line focus is on their assets, the services they perform, and the contributions they make in meeting the objectives of these organizations. During the past two decades, TMA software solutions have become a standard for asset management and facilities maintenance departments throughout the world.

About SSM Health Care - St. Louis (www.ssmhc.com)

With seven hospitals, nearly 2,500 staff physicians and 11,200 employees, SSM Health Care-St. Louis is committed to serving the comprehensive health needs of St. Louis area residents. The health care network includes SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center (St. Louis); SSM DePaul Health Center (Bridgeton); SSM St. Clare Health Center (Fenton); SSM St. Joseph Health Center (St. Charles); SSM St. Joseph Health Center - Wentzville; SSM St. Joseph Hospital West (Lake Saint Louis) and SSM St. Mary's Health Center (Richmond Heights).

The St. Louis system is one part of the entire SSM Health Care network.  SSM began with five religious sisters who journeyed to St. Louis in 1872 from Germany to be of service to people in need.  Today the system is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary and owns, manages and is affiliated with 20 acute-care hospitals and two nursing homes in four states: Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma. In 2008, more than 1.4 million people came to SSM for care.   SSM has nearly 23,000 employees, 5,400 physicians and 3,000 volunteers. It is the first health-care recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the first large health system to go tobacco-free inside and out.