Rochester Medical Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call October 27, 2004

STEWARTVILLE, Minn., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rochester Medical Corporation will announce quarterly results after financial markets close on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. The Company will then hold a quarterly conference call to discuss its earnings report. The call will begin at 4:00 p.m. central standard time (5:00 p.m. eastern time).

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Rochester Medical’s website at http://www.rocm.com/. To listen live to the conference call via telephone, call:

1-800-659-1966, password 69859205 Replay will be available for seven days at: http://www.rocm.com/ or via telephone at 1-888-286-8010, password 30587402.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at http://www.fulldisclosure.com/, Thomson/CCBN’s individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson’s password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).

Rochester Medical Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets latex- free disposable medical catheters and devices for urological and continence care applications. The Company markets under its own Rochester Medical(R) brand and under existing private label arrangements.

For further information, please contact Anthony J. Conway, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rochester Medical Corporation at (507) 533-9600. More information about Rochester Medical is available on its website at http://www.rocm.com/ .

Rochester Medical Corporation

CONTACT: Anthony J. Conway, President and Chief Executive Officer ofRochester Medical Corporation, +1-507-533-9600