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Jason Ritter. Jude Children's Research Hospital, +1-323-650 -9360, or cell,
+1-323-640-9434, tara.org. Beryl's
call advisors will handle calls for the system 's Neurosciences program, Cancer
Institute, Transplant Institute, and Bariatric Surgery, Cardiology , and
Interventional Radiology programs."
Methodist Healthcare, based in Memphis, Tennessee , serves the communities
of Eastern Arkansas, West Tennessee and North Mississippi.
Since 1985 , more than 500 hospitals, hospital systems and other healthcare
organizations have trusted their customers to The Beryl Companies. The Dallas Business Journal has named Beryl one of the
"Best Places to work" in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for three consecutive
years.

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For further information, please contact: Amelia McPartlon of Buena Vista
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system also is recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the Top 100
integrated healthcare networks. More information about Methodist Healthcare
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Governance Institute Announces New White Paper on Non-Profit Healthcare Executive Compensation Issues

For more information or a copy of "The Board's Role in Approving Executive
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This white paper provides an awareness
of the breadth of the current regulatory focus on executive compensation of
non-profit organizations; a review of what the law provides and allows with
respect to executive compensation; and a "roadmap" for a non-profit
hospital/health system and its governing board to organize its executive
compensation decision making process to comply with relevant law.newscom."
"We are honored to be working with the second largest not-for-profit
hospital in the country," said Paul Spiegelman, Beryl's CEO.

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Children's Research Hospital ., Methodist Healthcare and its
network of seven hospitals, has contracted with The Beryl Companies , the
nation's largest healthcare-exclusive customer interaction center, to manage
customer contacts for seven service lines and centers of excellence. "By partnering with Beryl to manage customer contacts for
these areas, we are enhancing our ability to serve the individual needs of
potential patients and families for these services.org .

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Concerns with potentially "excessive"
compensation arrangements have been expressed by the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS), state charity law officials, and by third party interest groups such as
labor unions, consumer groups, and policy/advocacy organizations.

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We are proud of our
commitment to partnering with experts who can help us successfully achieve our
mission and Beryl is the leading expert in call center customer service. In that
time, Beryl 's call advisors have provided physician/service referrals, health
information, telephone nurse triage and class/seminar registration to more
than 15 million callers. More information about Beryl is available at http://www.

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and Timothy Cotter and Kathryn Hastings of SullivanCotter + Associates cover
these issues in a new Governance Institute white paper, entitled "The Board's
Role in Approving Executive Compensation. A million more have interacted with Beryl via email
and the Internet.

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SAN DIEGO, The last two years have seen
extraordinary focus on the executive compensation practices of non-profit,
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"We are
confident that our focus on service will integrate with Methodist Healthcare's
commitment to excellence and the result will be a superior experience for
those who are seeking information about one of the system's centers of
excellence .