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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

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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