Montclair Streamlines Discharge Process with Patient Placement Systems
Montclair Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama, is the latest medical facility to streamline patient discharge and placement with Web-based technology from Patient Placement Systems in Alpharetta, Georgia. Patient Placement Systems is a Web-based application that connects hospitals, healthcare facilities and service providers throughout the patient care continuum, making the process of referring and placing a patient who requires care after leaving the hospital more secure, effective and timely. Montclair “determined the PPS system will expedite the discharge process, increase efficiency, and improve satisfaction of both patients and staff,” Montclair Case Management Director Carol Murphy said.
(PRWEB) May 31, 2005 -- Montclair Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham,
Alabama, is the latest medical facility to streamline the patient placement
process with Web-based technology from Patient Placement Systems in Alpharetta,
Georgia.
“Discharge placement of patients is often time consuming, and
requires contacting numerous nursing homes, home health agencies and other
parties,” said Carol Murphy, Director of Case Management at Montclair. “We
determined the PPS system will expedite the discharge process, increase
efficiency, and improve satisfaction of both patients and staff.”
Patient
Placement Systems is a Web-based application that connects hospitals, healthcare
facilities and service providers throughout the patient care continuum, making
the process of referring and placing a patient who requires care after leaving
the hospital more secure, effective and timely. From searching for the
appropriate provider, to securely transferring confidential medical information,
to arranging patient transport, PPS streamlines the patient placement process.
The PPS online, real-time solution helps healthcare institutions reduce length
of stay and helps discharge planners do their jobs more
effectively.
Murphy said Montclair Case Management “looked at several
discharge placement systems. We chose PPS because the system is user-friendly,
decreases the time spent on each case and provides tracking of our
work.”
Montclair is a 496-bed medical complex located in Birmingham. The
Montclair campus includes the Alabama Heart Institute at Montclair, outpatient
rehabilitation and physician complex, a neuroscience center, a comprehensive
mitral valve prolapse center, a 26-bed transitional care unit, a 27-bed
rehabilitation unit and a 40-bed psychiatric unit. In fiscal 2004, the facility
recorded 93,216 patient days. Montclair is a part of Baptist Health System,
Inc., the largest health care system in Alabama.
Patient Placement
Systems digitally connects all parties involved in referring and transferring
patients from one facility to another through the PPS Network. The PPS Network
improves information flow and communication so each party involved in patient
transfer has the information they need, when they needed it. PPS is a part of
Jackson Healthcare Solutions family of companies. For more information about
PPS, visit www.patientplacement.com, or call (877) 742-0403.
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