NCH among nation's Most Wired hospitals, according to survey
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (August 6, 2013) – Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) is among a group of hospitals and healthcare systems that have made great strides in establishing the basic building blocks for creating robust clinical information systems aimed at improving patient care. In a national survey published in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, NCH was named one of the nation's Most Wired hospitals in 2013.
According to the survey, the nation's Most Wired hospitals are adopting technologies to improve patient documentation, advancing clinical decision support and evidence-based protocols, reducing the likelihood of medication errors and rapidly restoring access to data in the case of a disaster or outage.
At NCH, innovative health IT solutions have automated and integrated clinical, patient safety and administrative functions within the Arlington Heights-based hospital and at NCH's outpatient facilities and at NCH Medical Group offices.
“At NCH, we know that healthcare must be connected and continue wherever the patient is – whether that is in the hospital, the doctor's office or in the home,” said George Morris, Vice President of Information Technology at NCH. “It's an honor to be recognized nationally, for the second year in a row, for our technology accomplishments.”
For more information about Northwest Community Healthcare and to learn more about NCH's mobile app, visit www.nch.org/app. The 2013 Most Wired Survey is conducted in cooperation with McKesson Corporation, AT&T, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the American Hospital Association. For more information about the Most Wired list for 2013, visit www.hhnmag.com.
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About Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH)
Serving Chicago's northwest suburbs since 1959, NCH is a comprehensive, patient-centered system of care that serves more than 350,000 outpatients each year, as well as nearly 30,000 inpatients treated annually at the 496-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights. The award-winning hospital holds the prestigious Magnet designation for nursing excellence, is designated as a Primary Stroke Center, earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval in 2011, and was awarded the Leapfrog Group's designation as one of the nation's Top Hospitals based on quality and safety criteria. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates a FastCare Clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group. For more information or to find a doctor on the NCH Medical staff, visit www.nch.org.