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Business Challenge Summary
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Deliver an expanding roster of network-based
clinical applications to a growing community
of users using a wide range of devices
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Ensure the reliability, availability, and security
of a campus-wide, combined wired and
wireless network
Network Solution Summary
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Cisco® switches for LAN, campus
core, and distribution networks
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Cisco wireless controllers and authentication
and identity services hardware appliances
Business Results Summary
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Robust network availability and reliability
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Enhanced network security and centralized
manageability
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Improved clinician efficiency and satisfaction;
consistent, high-quality healthcare
consistent, high-quality healthcare
Business Challenge
Since its opening with 50 beds in 1954, the
story of Chilton Hospital in northwestern
New Jersey has been punctuated by a few
significant growth spurts. The addition of a
second facility in 1971 was followed by a
consolidation and further expansion of its
two buildings in 1984. The most recent
leap forward – a $24 million renovation and
modernization project – got underway in 2012.
Now a 260-bed acute-care facility staffed
by more than 650 physicians and 1450
employees, the hospital treats some 160,000
patients each year. It is the center of the
Chilton Health Network, which delivers health
services to more than 30 communities across
350 square miles. The network offers a
wide range of healthcare services, including
laboratory testing, physical and occupational
therapy, and physician partnerships in primary
care, internal medicine, breast and colorectal
surgery, cardiology, and orthopedics.
For Chief Information Officer Mark Lederman
and his staff, modernizing Chilton meant
overhauling the hospital’s entire network
infrastructure. Mobility was paramount. “With
an expanding user community and our
ongoing deployment of more and more
new clinical applications, we knew we would
need a much more robust solution on the
wireless side than the one we had,” says
Lederman. “Nobody wants to be tethered
to a desktop anymore.
“Our nurses were already using computers on
wheels to do most of their bedside work, from
recording the medications they administered
to updating patients’ health records. Nurses
now do all their documentation online. And
physicians are moving in the same direction,”
Lederman explains.
“ By serving our clinical staff better, the network
enables them to deliver consistent, high-quality care
to our patients”
— Mark Lederman
CIO, Chilton Hospital
Medical Center Supports Network-Based Care
Case Study
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