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Spok Customers Receive Top Ranking from U.S. News & World Report®

Spok Customers Receive Top Ranking from U.S. News & World Report®

All adult and children’s ‘best hospitals’ in 2020-21 rankings trust Spok for clinical communications

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (August 4, 2020) – Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a global leader in healthcare communications, is pleased to announce that all 20 adult hospitals and all 10 children’s hospitals named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals Honor Roll use Spok clinical communication solutions to facilitate care collaboration and support exceptional patient care. For eight consecutive years Spok has partnered with all of the adult ‘Best Hospitals’.

“We congratulate our customers for this much deserved and prestigious recognition, and we are proud to support hospitals who are the best at what they do,” said Vincent D. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Spok Holdings, Inc. “Partnering with these hospitals as they continue to battle COVID-19 reminds us what we do matters here at Spok. We know that efficient communication is important now more than ever, and as the healthcare industry continues to transform, we remain committed to supporting hospitals across the nation with reliable communication technology, through Spok Go®, our new cloud native platform powered by Amazon Web Services, or AWS.”

The 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll recipients are among the more than 2,200 hospitals and health systems in the U.S. that rely on Spok solutions to streamline communication and connect care teams with each other and the information they need, when they need it. U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings, has conducted the Best Hospitals rankings for more than 30 years. The rankings are among the most referenced by consumers because they are based primarily on objective data, including risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, discharge data, outcomes, volumes, patient experience, patient safety, and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators.