LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2005--Hythiam, Inc. (NASDAQ:HYTM), a healthcare services management company that delivers to treatment providers both proprietary administrative services and physiological protocols designed to treat substance dependence, announced today that it has signed a licensing and services agreement to offer its HANDS(TM) Protocols to College Hospital Costa Mesa in Orange County, California, a College Health Enterprises hospital.
The HANDS Protocols will be offered at the College Hospital Costa Mesa site, a 122-bed hospital providing medical, surgical, and psychiatric services to Orange County. College Hospital Costa Mesa is known in the community for providing specialty services, and treats approximately 900 patients for chemical dependency each year. In addition, College Hospital has large and intensive outpatient services for behavioral health and dual diagnosis treatment/education/awareness available at its locations in Laguna Woods, Anaheim, Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, California.
