Prime Healthcare Services Incorporates State-of-the-Art Electronic Medical Records System-Wide
(9/27/2007)

When Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. chose MEDITECH’s Health Care Information System (HCIS) for its information system at several of their hospitals, it was a logical choice. Headquartered in Victorville, CA, Prime is a fully integrated hospital management company that currently owns and operates eight acute care facilities, four of which were already running the MEDITECH system. And based upon past experience with the software and service, Prime was confident in choosing MEDITECH as its information technology partner based on our integration, cost-effectiveness, and corporate reputation.
 
“The implementation of the MEDITECH Health Care Information System is an example of Prime Healthcare Services’ commitment to improve our infrastructure and update the equipment with state-of-the-art technology,” says Prem Reddy, MD, FACC, FCCP, Prime's chairman of the board. “Prime is investing millions of dollars at its hospitals to improve quality of patient care."
 
As part of its business model, Prime acquires financially-troubled community hospitals and streamlines operational efficiencies by implementing fiscally sensible, clinically proven protocols that are physician-driven and patient-focused. Following the acquisition of Paradise Valley Hospital, a 103-year-old Adventist Hospital in National City, CA, Prime made the decision to implement MEDITECH’s HCIS to improve clinical efficiencies and patient care outcomes.
 
"MEDITECH technologies have been the proven industry leader in hospital I.T. systems,” explains Lex Reddy, MBA, MHA, and Prime's CEO. “A majority of our hospitals have successfully implemented MEDITECH’s MAGIC Release in integrating patient care outcomes.”
 
MEDITECH President and COO Howard Messing says that the company looks forward to continuing its work with Prime to help them achieve their long-range strategic goals.

"We are very fortunate to have Prime Healthcare Services as our customer," he says. "They have a solid reputation for implementing cost-saving measures to boost the financial well-being of community hospitals in Southern California. We are proud to be a part of their endeavors and excited to continue our solid partnership."

 

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