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[March 02, 2010]

CarePages & Everyday Health Present the First Annual CarePages Best Practices Awards

BROOKLYN, N.Y. --(Business Wire)-- CarePages and Everyday Health announce the winners of the 2009 CarePages Best Practices Awards created to salute healthcare facilities that have gone above and beyond in extending the CarePages mission, while recognizing client members who have shown outstanding CarePages utilization through creative and strategic practices. CarePages and Everyday Health celebrate the winners of the 2009 CarePages Best Practices Awards for their outstanding efforts to champion the CarePages message.

The winning facilities include Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for the children's hospital category; H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute for specialty care; Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center for an academic/teaching hospital and Clarian North Medical Center for a community hospital.

The Best Practices Awards also recognized Catholic Healthcare West, the nation's eighth largest health system and California's largest private hospital provider, for Best Overall Hospital System.

"We are honored to receive this recognition from CarePages and Everyday Health. Our caregivers are committed to providing excellent, compassionate care to everyone who comes to us. CarePages is one way that we are able to help keep our patients connected to their loved ones during and after their time with us, which is an important part of the healing process," said Mark Viden, Director of Brand Management for Catholic Healthcare West.

Everyday Health and CarePages congratulates these award-winning CarePages Champions as they continue to improve the patient experience. "It's important that we honor the facilities that take the CarePages message and service to another level and to thank them for their dedication and commitment," said Missey Moe-Cook, Executive Director of CarePages.

About CarePages, Inc.

CarePages.com is an online community with over a million unique visitors a month who come together to share the challenges, hopes and triumphs of anyone facing a life-changing health event. Through personalized websites, members can relate their stories, post photos and update friends and family instantly. In turn, people who care send messages of love and encouragement. CarePages.com also offers a variety of resources and support tools for living a more compassionate life.

Private-labeled CarePages websites are also offered by over 625 U.S. and Canadian healthcare facilities. CarePages has a simple, singular mission: to ensure that no one faces a health challenge alone. For more information, please visit www.carepages.com.

About Everyday Health, Inc.: Everyday Health, Inc. is a leading provider of online consumer health solutions. The company provides its consumers, advertisers and partners with content and advertising-based services across a broad portfolio of over 25 websites that span the health spectrum - from lifestyle offerings in pregnancy, diet and fitness to in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management. Everyday Health, formerly called Waterfront Media Inc., is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

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