Netsmart Technologies Signs New California Contract With Value of $550,000
March 19 2004 - 11:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
Netsmart Technologies Signs New California Contract With Value of
$550,000 Netsmart Will Implement Its Avatar Suite of Products to
The Sycamores of Pasadena GREAT RIVER, N.Y., March 19
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc. , a leading
supplier of enterprise-wide software for health and human services
providers through its wholly owned subsidiary, Creative
Socio-Medics Corp. (Creative), today announced that Creative has
been awarded a contract in California by The Sycamores of Pasadena
for a total value of $550,000. The contracts include software
licenses, professional services, and first-year maintenance
agreements to install Creative's Avatar suite of human services
software, including practice management and electronic
medicalrecords. Kathie Clayton, VP of Operations and CFO of The
Sycamores stated: "The Sycamores is pleased to have selected
Creative Socio-Medics to provide a comprehensive information system
solution for our programs. We went to great efforts in our
selection process and are certain that Creative offers the most
complete product solution and support services in meeting our
Information System needs. In addition, we strongly believe that
Creative, as a partner with The Sycamores, will be pivotal to the
success of our endeavor to provide comprehensive automation and
client tracking to support all of our child and family services
programs, as we are a leading outsource agency for Los Angeles
County Mental Health." Jerry Koop, CEO of Creative said: "We
welcome The Sycamores to our growing customer base in California.
Currently, we have over 40 clients in California, including 11
counties and 30 provider agencies." Koop continued: "We are
particularly proud of our recent ranking in the top percentile of
the rigorous 27-county California Behavioral Systems consortium,
sponsored by the California Institute of Mental Health, which
reviewed all aspects of software functionality and corporate
capabilities for over 100 of the nation's leading IT
organizations." For more than 100 years, The Sycamores has been
helping children and families to help themselves. From
intensely-structured residential treatment services to foster care,
adoption and in-home services, The Sycamores offers a comprehensive
range of family-centered, social, educational, preventive and
behavioral health programs that encourage children, adults and
their families to lead stable, independent and productive lives.
Through the years, The Sycamores has reunited families torn apart
by drug abuse, nurtured hope in children who have been abused and
neglected, and provided adoptive parents with the support they need
to succeed. Every year, the agency helps more than one thousand
children and families. The Sycamores continues to identify and
respond to the ever-changing needs of children and families within
the community. From its beginnings as Pasadena's first orphanage,
The Sycamores has evolved into a multi-service agency that reaches
out to people on many fronts. With more than a century of service
behind it, The Sycamores stay true to its mission while continuing
to expand the original vision of founder, Fannie Rowland. James
Conway, CEO of Netsmart Technologies stated: "We anticipate that
the California human services market will begin to open up new
opportunities for the Company. To be selected by The Sycamores is
another positive sign for the roll-out of the Avatar suite of
products in California." About Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Netsmart
Technologies, Inc. of Great River, N.Y., through Creative Socio-
Medics, is an established, leading supplier of enterprise-wide
software solutions for health and human services providers with
over 580 clients, including 25 systems with state agencies.
Creative's clients include health and human services organizations:
public health agencies, mental health and substance abuse clinics,
psychiatric hospitals, and managed care organizations. Avatar
Practice Management and the Avatar Clinician Work Station,
Creative's core products, are full-featured information systems
that operate on a variety of operating systems, hardware platforms,
and mobile devices and offer unlimited scalability. Statement on
Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Statements in this press
release may be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as
"anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar
expressions, as they relate to the company or its management,
identifyforward-looking statements. These statements are based on
current expectations, estimates and projections about the company's
business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These
statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve
risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.
Therefore, actual outcomes and results may, and probably will,
differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such
forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those
described above and those risks discussed from time to time in
Netsmart's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In
addition, such statements could be affected by risks and
uncertainties related to product demand, market and customer
acceptance, competition, pricing and development difficulties, as
well as general industry and market conditions and growth rates,
and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements
speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the company
does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking
statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this
release. Information on Netsmart's or Creative's website do not
constitute a part of this release. DATASOURCE: Netsmart
Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Ron Marge of Netsmart Technologies,
1-800-421-7503, ext. 2026, or ; or Stuart Fine of Carpe DM, Inc.,
+1-908-490-0075, or Web site: http://www.netsmartech.com/
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