Skyline Medical Lands Large Healthcare Systems in California, Wisconsin and New York
Skyline Medical Continues to Penetrate Strategic Geographic Markets by Converting Product Evaluations into Sales of Their STREAMWAY(R) Fluid Waste Management System
MINNEAPOLIS, MN / ACCESSWIRE / August 26, 2014 / The Minnesota based Skyline Medical Inc. (SKLN), announced sales to three new accounts across the country. Marshfield Clinic in neighboring Wisconsin has implemented STREAMWAY in their ultrasound suites to manage waste fluid collected during paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures. Similarly a large hospital in California with over 200 beds is using the STREAMWAY System to replace costly and potentially dangerous glass evacuation bottles in their ultrasound department. Rounding out a busy week of sales was the successful installation of the STREAMWAY System at a New York City ambulatory surgery center.
CEO Josh Kornberg stated "We are seeing healthcare systems regardless of size begin to fully embrace our system in both surgical and interventional radiology departments. A perfect example is the recent install at Marshfield Clinic, the largest private practice in Wisconsin and then two days later the installation at a standalone outpatient center in the Bronx, New York. In addition we continue to see an overwhelming success rate converting our product evaluations into satisfied customers. Such is the case with our most recent conversion, a large hospital serving the greater Los Angeles area."
About Skyline Medical Inc.
Skyline Medical Inc. produces a fully automated, patented, FDA cleared, surgical fluid disposal system that virtually eliminates operating room workers' exposure to blood, irrigation fluid and other potentially infectious fluids found in the surgical environment. Today's manual surgical fluid handling methods of hand-carrying filled surgical fluid canisters and emptying these canisters is an exposure risk and is not an optimal approach to the handling of surgical fluid waste. Skyline Medical's STREAMWAY(TM) System fully automates the collection, measurement and disposal of surgical fluids and is designed to result in: 1) reducing overhead costs to hospitals and surgical centers, 2) improving Occupational State and Health Association (OSHA) and other regulatory compliance agencies' safety concerns, and 3) streamlining the efficiency of the operating room (and thereby making surgeries more profitable).
Skyline Medical's STREAMWAY System is eco-friendly as it contributes to cleaning up the environment. Currently, approximately 50 million bloody, potentially disease infected canisters go to landfills annually in the United States. These tainted canisters can remain in landfills for years to come. With the installation of Skyline Medical's STREAMWAY System, the number of canisters can be significantly reduced. Skyline Medical Inc.'s STREAMWAY System is designed to make the operating room and our environment safer, cleaner, and better. Skyline Medical products are currently being represented by independent professional sales representatives that cater to the needs of hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers across the country. For additional information, please visit: www.skylinemedical.com.
Forward-looking Statements
Certain of the matters discussed in this announcement contain forward-looking statements that involve material risks to and uncertainties in the company's business that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements made herein. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, inability to raise sufficient additional capital to operate our business; approximately $3.4 million in debts, liabilities and cash obligations that predominantly become due in calendar 2014; unexpected costs and operating deficits, and lower than expected sales and revenues, if any; uncertain willingness and ability of customers to adopt new technologies and other factors that may affect further market acceptance, if our product is not accepted by our potential customers, it is unlikely that we will ever become profitable, adverse economic conditions; adverse results of any legal proceedings; the volatility of our operating results and financial condition; inability to attract or retain qualified senior management personnel, including sales and marketing personnel; our ability to establish and maintain the proprietary nature of our technology through the patent process, as well as our ability to possibly license from others patents and patent applications necessary to develop products; the Company's ability to implement its long range business plan for various applications of its technology; the Company's ability to enter into agreements with any necessary marketing and/or distribution partners; the impact of competition, the obtaining and maintenance of any necessary regulatory clearances applicable to applications of the Company's technology; and management of growth and other risks and uncertainties that may be detailed from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and does not purport to be an analysis of the company's financial position. See the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and subsequent reports and other filings at www.sec.gov.
Contact:
Skyline Investor Relations Contacts:
Phil Carlson / Elizabeth Barker
KCSA Strategic Communications
212-896-1233 / 212-896-1203
SOURCE: Skyline Medical Inc.
