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Customer Case Study
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Lee. “In addition, when patients push the nurse call button, they are able to directly communicate
with the nurse or the nursing assistant assigned to their room, with no in-between person relaying
messages. If the patient needs a blanket or a pain pill, the nursing staff can answer the nurse call
and get what the patient needs before entering the patient’s room. This saves the nurse’s time and
helps patients get what they need more quickly.”
With every Sheltering Arms facility equipped with the Cisco wireless network, the benefits of
mobile access to information are extending far beyond clinical staff.
“For the administrative employees on our campuses, the way that we conduct meetings and
collaborate has really changed,” says Gathright. “People can take their laptops to meetings, we
can share project management applications together, and it has just made us more productive in
general. We used to say, ‘I will do that when I get back to my desk,’ but now you can just take care
of it.”
Next Steps
The Sheltering Arms technology team is exploring several new applications that would further
extend the advantages of the wireless solution. In the coming months, Sheltering Arms will deploy
wireless guest Internet access services in all waiting rooms and in patient areas of the inpatient
hospitals. Gathright is also considering expanding wireless voice services to more staff to improve
communications.
“At Sheltering Arms, patients come first," says Gathright. "There are many more things we can do
to support our clinical staff in the goal of providing the best possible therapeutic outcomes. We
have a mobile group of clinicians and our vision is for them to be able to quickly and securely
access all of the information they need, when and where they need it. Regardless of what we do
next, I am very confident in the wireless solution we have deployed. The Cisco platform will play an
important role for us going forward.”
For More Information
To find out more about the Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution, visit:
http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedwireless
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To find out more about Cisco Healthcare solutions, visit:
www.cisco.com/go/healthcare
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