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From 1974 to 2001, Malinda held various positions at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, CA. Her career at Stanford began as a Clinical Nursing Coordinator on the Urologic Nursing unit and quickly evolved into a series of Assistant Director and Director of Nursing positions. In these roles, she was responsible for five inpatient surgical units, administration of 1200 nursing employees managing 663 beds, and culminated in managing all Nursing Units in addition to the Operating Rooms, Emergency Rooms, Pharmacy, Therapies, and Home Care. From the Director of Nursing position, Malinda advanced to Vice President and Chief Operating Officer spending 12 years in that role. During which time she was responsible for all hospital and clinic operations, new program development, human resources and information systems. This position involved executive management responsibilities for over 5,000 employees and a $500 million USD budget. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Stanford, Malinda was responsible for all hospital and clinic functions. Highlights of her tenure at Stanford include leading a $50 million USD cancer center project from inception through the beginning of construction, and Associate Directorship of the $120 million USD Stanford Hospital Modernization Project from planning and design through construction and occupancy.

Since 2001, Malinda has performed the role of consultant and Program Director for the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California. In this role she led a grant-funded project for the uninsured and homeless needing health care and social services at four Santa Clara County hospitals.

From 2005 to 2006, Malinda consulted on Clinical Program Planning for a 500+ bed hospital in Doha, Qatar. In this role, she facilitated clinical programming between Cornell University Medical School faculty and local physicians in Doha to provide for an academic hospital to accompany the Cornell Medical School in Doha.

Malinda's previous Board experience includes Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, Lytton Gardens Senior Housing (non-profit senior housing, assisted living, and skill nursing facility), and the Stanford University Business School Sloan Program (Alumni Advisory Board member). Currently, Malinda is a member of the Board of Directors and the Co-Chair of Fund Development Committee for the American University of Paris, Paris, France.

"It is a great honor that Malinda Mitchell has agreed to join our Board," said Jeffrey Merino, CEO of AMoHS. "Her expertise in hospital management, facility planning and the surgical environment, is perfectly suited for the growth of our business and is invaluable to achieving our long-term vision," Merino said.

"Since initially seeing the mobile operating room in 2004, I recognized the benefit that this product provides for hospitals. Even upgrading a surgical suite can cost as much as several million dollars and take as long as 18 months. During that time the OR is out of service, and the hospital is losing revenue, surgical cases, and in some instances, even surgeons to other competing hospitals," said Malinda Mitchell. "As soon as I walked into the mobile OR, its value in eliminating these issues and in increasing OR capacity at busy medical centers was obvious. Additionally, in mass disaster scenarios, many local healthcare facilities are either damaged or overwhelmed by the volume of services required by the victims of the disaster. While staff and physicians are readily responding from other areas, they need an adequate facility in which to perform their much-needed trauma and surgical services. The AMoHS product line provides the mobile facility for those services to be delivered," Mitchell said. "I have always held a passion for delivering healthcare to those in need and I am thrilled to be a part of AMoHS in their delivery of facilities to accomplish this goal," said Mitchell.

About AMoHS™, Inc.
AMoHS is a California corporation formed in 2004 and holds the only issued U.S. patents for a mobile operating room. The company specializes in the design, development, manufacture, and distribution of mobile operating rooms, mobile clinics and rapid deployment field hospitals. The mobile operating rooms are utilized by hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers experiencing over capacity (census) issues or undergoing Operating Room retrofits. The mobile clinics are utilized by hospitals providing outreach services, humanitarian and governmental organizations providing medical care and corporate interests. The rapid deployment field hospitals are utilized by humanitarian and military organizations providing medical care in remote areas of the world and emergency medical and disaster preparedness organizations.

To date, virtually every type of surgery with the exception of open heart and complex neurosurgery has been performed in the patented mobile operating room products. All AMoHS products meet United States DOT requirements for standard transportation over US roads and can also be transported via military aircraft such as the C-5A or C-17. Existing Field Hospitals built under this design have successfully been used at hospitals, correctional institutions, governmental facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and in field situations.

Additional information is available at www.amohs.com or call 303-670-1177.

Media Contact:
Anita Chambers
Chief Strategic Officer
AMoHS, Inc.
650-823-3014 (direct)
achambers @ amohs.com