Infrastructure Upgrade Brings Patient-Centered Technology to Sauk Prairie

When Sauk Prairie Healthcare decided to replace its aging hospital with a state-of-the-art building, the primary goal was to design an environment that promoted patient healing, safety and quality care. Through a partnership with CDW Healthcare, the nine-person IT team updated Sauk Prairie’s current systems and redesigned a data center that could support future growth.

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<li>Marybeth Bay, IT Director and CIO, Sauk Prairie Healthcare</li>
<li>Jill Baxter, R.N., Director of Acute Care/ICU, Sauk Prairie Healthcare</li>
<li>Tom Cousland, Advanced Technology Account Executive, CDW Healthcare</li>
<li>Bill Spilman, Senior Project Manager, CDW Healthcare</li>
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<li>IT leaders worked with CDW to design, configure and implement a new data center and core infrastructure in 16 months.</li>
<li>Unified communications technology improved communication and enabled responsive, quality patient care.</li>
<li>The new hospital substantially increased patient and clinician satisfaction, as well as clinician efficiency.</li>
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