LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2005--
Hospital to Serve as Initial Treatment Option for New York City and Westchester County Residents
Hythiam, Inc. (AMEX:HTM), a healthcare services management company that delivers to treatment providers both proprietary administrative services and physiological protocols designed to treat addiction, has entered into a licensing and services agreement to offer its HANDS(TM) Protocols to The Mount Vernon Hospital, a voluntary, not-for-profit, 228-bed hospital in Mount Vernon, located in New York's Westchester County, immediately north of New York City.