Transcend Services enters into a 27 month contract with HealthTrust

TRANSCEND SERVICES, INC. (NASDAQ: TRCR) announced today that it has entered into a 27 month contract with HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP (HealthTrust) to offer medical transcription and clinical documentation products and services to nearly 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care facilities and other health-care organizations within the HealthTrust membership.

“We have years of experience in this industry and I can say with certainty that we will deliver an exceptional customer experience to HealthTrust members.”

"We are pleased to contract with HealthTrust, and for the opportunity to offer its members our medical transcription services, and front-end speech and core measures applications," said Larry Gerdes, Chief Executive Officer for Transcend. "We have years of experience in this industry and I can say with certainty that we will deliver an exceptional customer experience to HealthTrust members." Eighty percent of the transcription services provided by Transcend are performed by a domestic workforce.

Said Susan McGrogan, Transcend's President and Chief Operating Officer, "Transcend is a collaborative organization that truly wishes to meet and exceed our customers' needs. We have a strong focus on transcription and also emerging technologies, such as core measure alerts that help our clients to succeed. These qualities, combined with the value we can provide, will allow HealthTrust members to reduce costs and improve processes within their organizations."