The CPM Resource Center Healthcare Consortium Earns Prestigious Award From The National Academies of Practice Interdisciplinary Group Recognition Award Lauds CPM Resource Center's Healthcare Consortium

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, March 24, 2010 - The Healthcare Consortium of the Clinical Practice Model
Resource Center (CPMRC, www.cpmrc.com/), an Elsevier company, is the
2010 recipient of the National Academies Practice (NAP) Interdisciplinary
Group Recognition Award. Bestowed annually on groups that make "enduring
contributions to interdisciplinary education and practice," the NAP
(www.napractice.org/ ) award recognizes CPMRC's 25-year-old Healthcare
Consortium of nearly 300 healthcare organizations for implementing an
innovative interdisciplinary professional practice framework across multiple
care settings through interdisciplinary teams.

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"With new and emerging meaningful use requirements for care
coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration, and with interdisciplinary
team building moving to the top of policy-makers' agendas, our Healthcare
Consortium is more essential than ever," said Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN,
DPNAP, CPMRC's Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice
Officer. "Consortium members are truly pioneers in exploring new models of
care and improving practice at the point to care. Our Member's clinical and
financial outcomes can be replicated throughout the nation to facilitate
sustainable healthcare transformation."

The Consortium's Clinical Practice Model embraces both
educational and practice settings. The model's core beliefs are related to
safe, individualized healthcare; healthy work culture; continuous learning;
evidence-based action; partnership; individual accountability; shared
mission, vision and values; and healthy relationships, Troseth said.

Members of the Consortium share lessons learned through
Partnership Councils, which encourage partnerships across settings and
teamwork across disciplines; Consortium Gatherings, which advance models of
care that address interdisciplinary scope of practice, evidence-based
practice application, integrated clinical documentation within health
information technology; and the CPMRC International Conference, which
highlights outcomes produced in the clinical settings of Consortium members.

"Over the past 25 years, the Consortium has generated a vast
repository of practical and theoretical knowledge on how to address the
complexities of healthcare," said Tracy Christopherson, RRT, CPMRC's Director
of Interdisciplinary Practice. "By fostering interdisciplinary partnership
and team-building within and across settings, Consortium members have emerged
as thought leaders in building models that transform culture and practice at
the point of care. Statistically significant outcomes such as reductions in
patient falls, ventilator-assisted pneumonia, and pressure ulcers have been
replicated site after site, as well as increases in patient and staff
satisfaction."

Members of the nearly 300-member Consortium include large
multi-state healthcare systems, university, community and rural settings as
well as academic clinical schools.

About CPMRC

The CPM Resource Center (CPMRC) offers content, processes,
tools and services that support practice advancement, cultural
transformation, infusion of evidence-based care, and interdisciplinary
integration at the point of care. CPMRC's evidence-based products and
professional services assist healthcare organizations in creating a healthy
work culture and interdisciplinary integration using the CPM Framework(TM)
that supports cultural and professional practice for sustainable healthcare
transformation. The International Consortium of over nearly 300 rural,
community and university settings connects clinicians and leaders to advance
clinical scholarship and research. Practice-Education Partnerships bridge the
transition from education to practice in schools of Nursing and Allied Health
focusing on interprofessional education (IPE) and interdisciplinary
collaborative practice. CPMRC is a business unit of Elsevier. For more
information on CPMRC, please visit www.cpmrc.com.

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.

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of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading
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    T.Reller@elsevier.com

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