Catholic Health Initiatives Selects Six of Elsevier's Online Solutions To Enhance Quality Clinical Decision-Making

Mosby's Nursing Suite and Clinical Pharmacology are now the Primary Decision-support Resources at CHI's 75 Hospitals Across 19 States

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 1, 2010 - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com), a world leader in health
care and medical publishing and online solutions, today announced that
Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives (www.catholichealthinit.org/
) (CHI), the second-largest faith-based health care system in the nation,
will install six of Elsevier's online clinical decision-support and training
solutions to meet the diverse and evolving needs of physicians, nurses and
other providers at its 75 hospitals in 19 states.

CHI nurses will benefit from online resources within Mosby's
Nursing Suite, including Mosby's Nursing Consult (
www.nursingconsult.com/php/186312749-2/home.html), which helps nurses
find answers to pressing clinical questions; Mosby's Nursing CE
(www.nursingconsult.com/php/186312749-4/home.html), which offers a
variety of continuing education modules; Mosby's Index (
www.mosbysindex.com/), which provides nursing and allied health
journal abstracts and an indexing database; Mosby's Nursing Skills
(confidenceconnected.com/mosby-skills.htm), which refreshes nurses'
knowledge of procedures and teaches new skills; and Mosby's Nursing Skills
Pediatric Collection, which delivers guidance on more than 300 pediatric
nursing skills. Clinical Pharmacology (
www.clinicalpharmacology.com/?epm=2_1), a Gold Standard/Elsevier
product, will deliver expert drug information to CHI physicians, pharmacists,
nurses and allied health professionals in acute care settings across the
system.

"CHI's pursuit of an integrated clinical strategy, which
involves the rapid adoption of evidence-based practices and implementation,
blends perfectly with Elsevier's ability to deliver quality content for
real-time decision-making and skills-based training," said Kathy Sanford,
CHI's Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer.

Stephen Moore, M.D., CHI's Senior Vice President and Chief
Medical Officer, added: "Clinical Pharmacology, which provides accurate,
clinically-relevant drug data, ensures that physicians, pharmacists and other
providers have real-time information at the point of care for decision-making
and multidiscipline communications to enhance patient care quality, safety,
efficiency and cost management. Elsevier's Clinical Decision Support and
training solutions support CHI's goals for patient care safety and quality
while increasing provider and clinician satisfaction.

"Elsevier's experience and expertise in deploying its
solutions across large organizations while remaining sensitive to the
information needs and practice priorities of nurses and other clinical
professionals creates additional value for large organizations like CHI,"
said Chris Dillon, Managing Director for Clinical Decision Support at
Elsevier Health Sciences. "When health care facilities offer all clinicians
the opportunity to access the same high levels of evidence-based content,
clinicians are better positioned to meet quality, safety and efficiency
targets, enhance the patient experience and adhere to core organizational
values."

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services. The company works in
partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more
than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell
(www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com),
Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and
Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the
productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite
(www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com),
which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier
(www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part
of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading
publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier
PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),
REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

About Catholic Health Initiatives

CHI is a national nonprofit health system with headquarters in
Denver. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 75
hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted-living and residential-living
facilities; and two community health-services organizations. Together, those
facilities provided $553 million during the 2009 fiscal year in charity care
and community benefit, including services for the poor, free clinics,
education and research. With annual revenues of $8.6 billion, CHI ranks as
the nation's second-largest Catholic health care system. For more
information, visit www.CatholicHealthInitiatives.org.

    CHI Media Contact:

    Mike Romano
    Director, Media Relations
    Catholic Health Initiatives
    +1-303-383-2720
    michaelromano@catholichealth.net

    Elsevier Media Contact:
    Christopher Capot
    KNB Communications
    +1-203-379-8019
    ccapot@knbpr.com

CHI Media Contact: Mike Romano, Director, Media Relations, Catholic Health Initiatives, +1-303-383-2720, michaelromano at catholichealth.net; Elsevier Media Contact: Christopher Capot, KNB Communications, +1-203-379-8019, ccapot at knbpr.com