Case Studies

At Ascension Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in the United States, not every hospital has fully automated patient records. But that hasn’t stopped the company from streamlining patient-transition workflow at three of its top facilities — and saving almost $6 million in less than 18 months.

Consistently ranked as one of America’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, Birmingham, Ala.’s 900-bed UAB Hospital wanted to be even better. Adopting eDischarge^TM helped achieve this by getting staff off the phone and away from the fax machine.

With a staff of five nurses and social workers, Tracey Jennings oversees all patient placements from acute-care settings to post-acute care for the numerous Centra Health facilities and programs in Central Virginia. It's a process with many moving parts that this director of centralized admissions made easier with RideCentral.

Known for excellence in long-term care, Friendship Health and Rehab Center is the largest nursing home in Virginia with 350 beds. It uses Curaspan’s eDischarge to speed up the referral process by eliminating paperwork and phone calls.

MedSTAR Transport, a leading provider of ground and air medical-transportation services, struggled with inefficiencies in its transportation coordination. Deploying eDischarge software-as-a-service (SaaS) helped to increase the efficiency of its placement process.

They're the Batman and Robin of health-system innovation. Melody Livengood, RN, MSN, RHS, director of care facilitation, and Dawn Kowalski, operations manager, are the dynamic duo behind a transformation in care facilitation at Riverside Health System (RHS). A transformation powered by Curaspan software as a service (SaaS).

Serving an extensive network of prestigious medical centers, hospitals, sub-acute facilities and senior housing, VNSNY provides home-care services to more than 100,000 patients each year. Since deploying eDischarge, VNSNY has averaged almost 800 home-health referrals each month.