NEW FONAR STAND-UP MRI IN NEW
JERSEY BECOMING
‘FIRST STOP FOR MRI’
MELVILLE,
NEW YORK, July 30, 2004 - FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The
MRI Specialist™, announced today that it has installed
a Stand-Up™ MRI, the Company’s Upright™ Imaging
system, at
the new University Imaging Center in Vineland, New Jersey. The
center is conveniently located a quarter mile from South Jersey
Hospital, a brand new state-of-the-art facility and latest member
of the South Jersey Health System. [University Imaging Center
is located at 1051 West Sherman Ave, Suite 2B, Vineland, NJ
08360 [(856)-692-2133.]
“Patient
demand is increasing every day,” said Farrukh Kazmi, administrator
for University Imaging. “We have been open only a short
time, but our scan volume has already increased substantially.
Encouraged by our initial success here in Vineland, we are sticking
with our timetable for purchasing four (4) additional Fonar
Stand-Up MRIs.”
When
asked for the reasons for the early success of University Imaging
Center, Mr. Kazmi answered: “We understand the medical
business and the medical marketplace. It’s fundamentally
an issue of quality - which means quality service and quality
equipment. We work hard to meet the needs of our patients and
their doctors and, with the Stand-Up™ MRI, we offer the
most advanced MRI medical device available today.”
“When
we first opened the site,” continued Mr Kazmi, “most
of our referrals were patients who were too claustrophobic to
tolerate other MRI scanners. That was fine with us because we
could easily meet that challenge. The Fonar Stand-Up™
MRI is unequivocally the ‘Patient Preferred MRI.’
With the Stand-Up™ MRI patients are not slid into a confining
‘tunnel,’ and there is nothing in front of the patient’s
face or overhead to induce a claustrophobic reaction. On the
contrary, most Stand-Up™ MRI patients sit comfortably
watching a 42” TV throughout the exam. Once the referring
doctors saw the quality of our exams, the quality of our service,
and learned of the Stand-Up™ MRI’s added ability
to scan patients in weight-bearing positions, many of them have
made University Imaging Center their first stop for MRI.”
“Working
with Fonar has gone very smoothly,” continued Mr. Kazmi.
“In our initial meetings with Fonar, we agreed on a time
schedule that would get our new Stand-Up™ MRI installed
as quickly as possible. Fonar was always ahead of schedule.
In fact, Fonar was usually waiting for our construction workers
to finish their work before Fonar could move forward.”
“The
Fonar Service Department deserves some credit too,” added
Mr. Kazmi. “The image quality of our scans is consistently
excellent, and they respond quickly and professionally whenever
we have a technical problem. I would like to stress how thankful
we are to Fonar for meeting every commitment they have made.”