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Wayport Signs Agreement With Surgical Care Affiliates for Public Access Internet

Posted on: Thursday, 13 March 2008, 09:00 CDT

Wayport, Inc., a provider of public and private network convergence and support for healthcare facilities, announces today a new master services agreement has been reached with Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), to enable Wi-Fi Internet access for patients, visitors and other invited users. The Wayport services will be available to SCA's more than 130 surgery centers throughout the United States. Each center will choose whether to utilize the services at their facility.

Wayport will also make a Wi-Fi network for employee and staff use available to each location that utilizes its services. The Wi-Fi portion of Wayport's larger service offering is important to many healthcare facilities, although it is only one aspect of the custom network services Wayport can provide to health facilities.

"With Wayport's experience in healthcare and secure Wi-Fi solutions, they are well positioned to help SCA meet our goals of enhancing our patient and staff experience," says Tim Gates, SCA's VP of Information Technology. "Wayport's 24X7 customer and network support, security solutions, and its ability to provide national wireless infrastructure management, offers a tremendous potential benefit to all of our surgery centers."

In the individual facilities that choose to work with Wayport, the company will provide Wi-Fi network design and installation, a managed Wi-Fi network connection, public Wi-Fi Internet access and employee and caregiver Wi-Fi Internet access. Wayport services include 24x7 customer support, Wi-Fi network monitoring and repair and maintenance of the Wi-Fi network. The surgery center will then offer Wi-Fi Internet access to all of its end-users for Internet service utilizing Wayport's wireless products and services.

"We are pleased to work with SCA to enable wireless applications, network integration and services," says Kevin McKeand, vice president and general manager for healthcare at Wayport. "Our support capabilities can make the patient experience more valuable as well as help operations run more smoothly."

About Wayport, Inc.

Founded in 1996 and based in Irving, Texas, Wayport helps some of the world's top brands enhance their customers' experience. Wayport supports innovative organizations with breakthrough network management, serving nearly 12,000 directly enabled and managed locations across 35 countries. Wayport serves notable brands in a variety of vertical markets, including AT&T customers through a managed service agreement. Wayport helps clients create new business capabilities and improve operational efficiencies at premier venues including major hotels, hospitals, McDonald's and Hertz locations, and other retail brands worldwide. To learn more about Wayport, please visit www.wayport.net or to see locations worldwide, visit www.wayport.net/locations.

About Surgical Care Affiliates

Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), with its affiliated physicians and partners, is committed to delivering high quality surgical services to ensure a superior patient experience and clinical outcome. One of the largest providers of specialty surgical services, SCA operates more than 130 ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals across the country with 6,000 employees and more than 3,000 physician partners. For more information on SCA, visit www.scasurgery.com.

Source: Business Wire

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