Emergency Nurses Association Announces Corporate Sponsors for Leadership ...( DES PLAINES Ill. Feb. 9 -- The Emerg...),Health

DES PLAINES, Ill., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) today announced the corporate sponsors for the ENA Leadership Conference to be held in Reno, Nevada on March 4 - 8, 2009.

This year's sponsors are GE Healthcare and Physio-Control.

"We are so pleased that these two companies have chosen to support emergency nurses from across the country through their sponsorship of the ENA Leadership Conference," said William T. Briggs, RN, MSN, CEN, FAEN, 2009 ENA President. "Both of these companies have shown their commitment to improved patient care through their support of this meeting. By sponsoring the Leadership Conference, each of these companies is directly contributing to the continued improvement of emergency care."

The ENA Leadership Conference will explore the conference theme, SOAR: Aspire to New Heights, with in-depth reviews of national issues facing emergency care professionals, professional development sessions on career and management issues and an exhibit hall featuring a plethora of suppliers of products and services for the emergency care environment.

About the Leadership Conference Sponsors

GE Healthcare provides medical technologies and services for patient care. Its expertise includes medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, and performance improvement. GE Healthcare enables a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.

Physio-Control pioneered defibrillation technology more than 50 years ago and provides LIFEPAK(R) products for cardiac emergencies in hospital emergency departments.

For more information about the ENA Leadership Conference, visit the ENA website at www.ena.org.