October 20, 2006 – Jericho, NY -- Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) the leading provider of expert online multimedia compliance education and systems for hospitals, health plans and healthcare facilities, today announced the release of a new online interactive training course – “Preventing Sexual Harassment for Healthcare Organizations.”

This new online course is designed for organizations with large staffs to educate all employees on what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior and to educate management on how to properly respond to complaints. The course includes many video scenarios depicting real-life healthcare specific situations that every staff member must be aware of.

“Sexual Harassment continues to be a particularly severe problem in healthcare organizations.” says Mitchell Diamond, CEO of HCCS. “The rules governing behavior in this area can often be vague and confusing. This course addresses those situations with clear examples to help change behavior, to prevent harassment and to protect healthcare organizations.”

Almost half the states in the country have laws regarding procedures that private employers must follow to prevent sexual harassment in their workplace. This course meets the requirements the new California AB 1825 training law requiring harassment training for companies with greater than 50 employees. These requirements are some of the most stringent of any state.

Created by legal experts and experts in interactive education, this course is divided into a series of easy to follow modules each providing education on varied aspects of sexual harassment laws. The course is QUICK AND EASY to rollout and requires few internal resources.

Detailed management reports are available, providing performance and completion information on every individual within the organization. The course is SCORM compliant and will launch from most Learning Management Systems.

ABOUT HCCS:

Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc. (HCCS) provides up-to-date compliance and competency training courseware and systems to hospitals, health plans, teaching facilities, medical schools and other health care entities.

The HCCS Compliance Learning Library contains expert courseware content in professional, corporate, HIPAA, clinical research, quality improvement and workplace compliance issues. HCCS courseware provides timely and engaging video scenarios, interactive Q&A, student tracking and comprehensive management reporting.

HCCS also provides the HCCS Healthcare Learning Platformtm (HLPtm). The HLP is a next generation healthcare learning and competency management system. The HLP centralizes delivery and management of online, offline and event learning while providing an easy to use, robust user and management interface. To learn more about this system and the many ROI tools it provides for your institution, call for a Webinar appointment

HCCS courseware has a remarkable 96% completion rate in an industry where the average is typically 15% to 20%. HCCS has trained over 1,000,000 healthcare employees online.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO REQUEST A DEMONSTRATION:

Contact: David Rosenthal

Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc.

Jericho NY

516-478-4100 phone

dmr@hccsonline.com