Company Background
For more than 107 years, St. Vincent's Birmingham has provided exceptional, compassionate care to the greater Birmingham area. From Occupational Health Clinics to Sleep Disorders Center, St. Vincent's offers a variety of programs and services to fit individual, corporate, and community needs. St. Vincent’s Birmingham is a part of St. Vincent’s Health System, which is a part of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system.
Project Goals & Objectives
- Ensure delivery of vital information to decision makers
- Expedite process of generating reports
- Reduce amount of paper used in report distribution
Business Issues
The oldest health-care facility in Birmingham, Alabama, St. Vincent’s has transformed itself in many ways to face the challenges of continually serving its community with the highest quality care. To keep pace, St. Vincent’s must ensure prompt delivery of vital information to hospital decision makers. Yet, developing the necessary reports and ensuring they reached the right staff members was a time-consuming process. St. Vincent’s wanted to not only expedite this process, but also give access to more employees involved in decision making.
Ranzal Role
Ranzal developed a multi-point solution comprised of several modules. The first module gives personnel “speed of thought” access to critical information to manage hospital profitability. It provides hospital staff with instant access to financial reporting like the P&L and Balance Sheet via a web-based application. The second module delivers essential day-to-day information to operational users to analyze activity against plan and flex budgets by Cost Center, DRG, Physician, Insurance Coverage, and Patient Type.
A third module provides key performance information to top decision makers, which helps drive hospital operations. The application monitors strategic initiatives across the enterprise in areas of Clinical Excellence, Innovation, Quality Care, Work Life, and Financial Performance. It also gives St. Vincent’s the ability to identify how operations rate against peer facilities in the industry.
Business Benefits
- Improved decision making with expanded breadth of information throughout the organization
- More informed decisions due to increased capabilities for analyzing operational and financial data
- Greater self-sufficiency and ability to manage and maintain applications thanks to intuitive development environment
- Increased efficiency and decreased costs with replacement of paper-based report distribution
