Westchester Medical Center selects Policy Manager from MCN Healthcare
Tue Aug 21, 12:00 am
Westchester Medical Center selects Policy Manager from MCN Healthcare Enterprise application to streamline process and save resources

Denver, Colo., August 21, 2007 - MCN Healthcare Inc., a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced Westchester Medical Center (WMC) of Valhalla, New York, has chosen Policy Manager from MCN's ellucid® software platform. The new web-based application will be implemented to aid in streamlining WMC's policy and procedure management process across its 1,100 bed campus.

Says John Moustakakis, Chief Information Officer for WMC, "We have a complex enterprise with several specialty care centers and large acute care teaching facility. We were looking to consolidate our policy documents, eliminate duplications, and create a more effective and efficient process. Our evaluation of vendors led us to select MCN Healthcare. We believe their combination of intuitive workflow software and comprehensive policy library resources will enable us to achieve our goals."

States Amanda Valeur, president and founder of MCN, "We are very pleased to welcome Westchester Medical Center as our newest Policy Manager customer. Since our product introduction in February, interest in our policy management solution has truly exceeded our expectations. We designed this application to be both user-friendly and scalable to accommodate small facilities to large multi-site health systems. Adding a facility with the prestige of Westchester to our growing customer list is a significant accomplishment for MCN."

Policy Manager provides organizations of any size with a robust user-friendly policy maintenance process developed specifically for healthcare's unique workflow. The application enables easy import and uploading functions for the customer's existing documents. On-line access promotes greater efficiencies and communication among staff and committees to review, edit, share and approve documents from virtually any location. Policy Manager can be integrated with MCN's on-line Policy Library containing 82 manuals and over 17,000 compliant-ready policies, procedures and forms.

About Westchester Medical Center (www.wcmc.com)
Spanning every adult and pediatric medical specialty, Westchester Medical Center serves as a lifeline to the more than 3.5 million people in the Hudson Valley region and beyond. Well-known for its advanced medical care in trauma and burn, heart, cancer, transplant, neuroscience and pediatrics, community hospitals within a 5,000-square-mile range send their most difficult cases to this advanced-care, academic medical center. At Westchester Medical Center, each year more than 120,000 patients are cared for in every medical specialty through its University Hospital, the 128-bed Maria Fareri Children's Hospital (home to the region's only Level IV NICU and PICU), the Joel A. Halpern Regional Trauma Center and the region's only Burn Center and the only full-service 24/7 cardiac center, including heart transplant, and so much more. With more than 900 attending physicians and 3,300 healthcare professionals, Westchester Medical Center is the only facility capable of providing immediate lifesaving advanced care between New York City and Albany.

About MCN Healthcare
MCN is a leading provider of regulatory compliance and learning solutions for the healthcare industry. Over the past 20 years, more than 16,000 organizations worldwide have benefited from our practical cost-effective services for policy management, staff education and safety training. MCN Healthcare is privately owned and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Learn more about the company at www.mcnhealthcare.com.

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