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14850 Roscoe Blvd.

14850 Roscoe
Panorama City
CA, 91402

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Technology at Mission Community Hospital

Introduction

Mission Community Hospital (MCH) broke ground in Fall 2000 to house a comprehensive healthcare complex consisting of O.R.Suites, G.I. Lab, 10 Bed Short Stay, 10 Bed ICU, 50 Bed Med-Surg and 60 Bed Behavioral Health facility. The complex also is licensed for 30 additional Beds, which exist along with the E.R., Radiology, and Lab in its old Patient Towers. MCH has another campus in San Fernando, which is the site of the first Hospital in the San Fernando Valley (currently home to about 1.7 million residents), built in 1910.

In addition to providing easy physical access for physicians, patients and families, and having received a JCAHO score of 92 in its last survey, the new Hospital is already on its way, in a matter of only 36 months, to becoming one of the most safe, cost-sensible facilities for the management and delivery of timely patient care information for clinicians and physicians.

To ensure the appropriate design, development, and implementation of a leading edge Technology Infrastructure and Program for the 21st Century, the Hospital retained the services of Mr. Ash Dave' as its Systems Transformation Advisor in January of 2001. Mr. Dave' had previously served as the Chief Information Officer of Cedars-Sinai Health System and was the Founding CEO of Optimatrix Health Solutions, Inc., which was acquired by Perot Systems Corporation in 1999. Mr. Andre Henderson (who was with Perot Systems Corporation) also joined the Hospital in February 2001 as its Director of Information Systems.

The Technology Infrastructure--- Wired for Wireless

The MCH campus has a fiber-optic backbone throughout the facility and is completely wired for all network access points with Gigabit rated Ethernet (Category 5e). In addition, the majority of the Campus is on a wireless LAN (Cisco). Electronic sensor based cards for employees and physicians provide and monitor all access to ensure physical security. The Campus is fully equipped to deploy appropriate Tele Medicine capabilities with remote facilities (e.g., remote dynamic viewing of G.I. images and films, Radiology Images, Lab Results, Medication Profiles, ICU Monitoring, etc).

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This is one of the first Hospitals in California totally built to the State's rigorous seismic standards, and its Server/Communications Center is equipped with its own FM200 Fire Suppression, UPS System, climate controls, and is supported by a modern MG/Diesel Hospital-based system to ensure non-stop 7x24 operations.

Web-enabled secured access for physicians gives them all Census, Lab, Radiology, Medications, EKGs and Transcription information to facilitate timely patient care. All of the Imaging Modalities are supported on a Digital Image Management platform resulting in a Filmless operation. Large touch screen monitors in the hospital facility provide instantaneous access to physicians for essential clinical results and images.

The Hospital began the rollout of a Cell Phone/PDA-based wireless access program for its physicians in Spring of 2002. This is anytime/anywhere secure access for physicians, and the Hospital automatically sends them alerts without their having to come to the Hospital.

Simply stated, MCH's goal is to continue to create a Single Electronic Portfolio for appropriate Patient Information to enable the delivery of quality Patient Care and Hospital Operations in a cost-sensible manner.

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