Willis-Knighton Health Systems - NETWORK PLAN
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Willis-Knighton Health Systems - NETWORK PLAN 1. Goals and objectives of the proposed network The cornerstone of Cape Fear Valley Hospital was laid in 1954, and the hospital opened in 1956 as a 200- bed county hospital. Today, the medical center is a robust regional medical center located in the growing metropolitan city of Fayetteville, N.C. (population 200,000) in Cumberland County (population 300,000). A half century later Cape Fear Valley is comprised of a 916-bed, 8-hospital regional health system, the 8th largest in North Carolina. Caper Fear Valley serves more than 1 million inpatient and outpatients annually. Operating as a not-for-profit organization with more than 7,000 employees and 850 physicians, it includes the following facilities; Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital, Cape Fear Valley Rehabilitation Center, Behavioral Health Care, Bladen County Hospital, Hoke Hospital, Health Pavilion North, Health Pavilion Hoke and Harnett Health. Cape Fear Valley Medical Center specializes in heart care, cancer treatment and surgical services. They have a full-service Family Birth Center as well as a Level-III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to care for the tiniest members of our community. The goal is to connect all the remote sites to the hospital's information systems to provide a central source for patient information. Connecting the clinics to the hospital's network allows the clinics to access all of its resources including primary EMR applications, current and NextGen information services. The long-range vision of Cape Fear Valley Hospital is to enable a set of standard telehealth connection services that will interconnect throughout the region and facilitate any healthcare location in the nearby state to share one or more telehealth services with any other healthcare location in the regional and ultimately to share on a national level. 2. Strategy for aggregating the specific needs of health care providers (HCPs), including providers that serve rural areas, within a state or region Most of the remote clinics are small, so providing a separate EMR application for each site would not be cost effective, and would make the sharing of this information with other health care providers difficult. By sharing the hospital's resources, each clinic and remote site will have access to a much broader array of information services . 3. Strategy for leveraging existing technology to adopt the most efficient and cost- effective means of connecting those providers The clinics already have network equipment to interconnect PCs and printers. By using high speed connections and standard network equipment, Cape Fear Medical Center will be able to connect the PCs and printers in the remote offices to the hospital's existing network. This will allow access to servers and applications in the hospital as well as cloud based applications available on the internet. The hospital already has an extensive network of leased facilities, which interconnect connects the Hospital and remote clinics. 4. Discussion of how the broadband services will be used to improve or provide health care delivery The hospital and clinics have direct access to the internet for cloud based services and dedicated access for such services as radiology and patient records. Remote locations are connected using a combination of Voice Grade data lines, ISDN and high speed Ethernet internet connections. This network will support applications such-as: • Interactive video conferencing and telemedicine. • Streaming video for distance learning and continuing education. • Enabling medical record queries from multiple sources. • Transmission and receipt of imaging files. • Web-based collaboration tools for meetings and peer-to-peer consultation and interaction and for hospital administration. • Access to internet based resources for staff and patient education. The hospitals and all clinics and locations will benefit from these high speed connections. Facilities will be upgraded and expanded, as needed for growth and new services beyond what’s mentioned above. 5. Discussion of previous experience in developing and managing health IT (including telemedicine) programs Phil Wood, CIO and Consortium Leader for The Cape Fear Valley Health, will oversee this project. 6. A project management plan outlining the project's leadership and management structure (a work plan, schedule, and budget) • Phil Wood will act as the project manager. • Schedule: - Bid process to last 28 days with earliest contract selection date on the 29th day - Implementation of service is expected to take place within 60 days of the Allowable Contract Selection Date • Budget: -Telecommunication Services - ~$180,000 -65% of these costs will be covered under the Healthcare Connect Fund, while the remaining balance will be paid out of the hospital's income. 7. Sites that are participating in this consortium are: HCP Site Name HCP Address NO. 11521 CFV Bladen County Hospital 501 South Poplar Street, Elizabethtown, North Carolina 28337 65487 CFV Podiatry Harnett 145 Tilghman Drive, Dunn, North Carolina 28334 65488 Cape Fear Valley Medical Center 1638 Owen Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28304 65489 CFV Hoke County Hospital 210 Medical Pavilion Drive, Raeford, North Carolina 28376 65490 CFV Highsmith Rainey Speciality 150 Robeson Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 Hospital 65491 CFV BDH Elizabethtown 300 McKay St., Elizabethtown, North Carolina 28337 65493 CFV Primary Care Erwin 518 East H Street, Erwin, North Carolina 28339 65494 CFV Clinton Primary Care 606 Beaman St, Clinton, North Carolina 28328 65495 CFV BCH Clarkton 88 East Green Street, Clarkton, North Carolina 28433 65496 CFV BCH Dublin 16 3rd Street, Dublin, North Carolina 28332 65497 CFV BCH Bladenboro 1106 West Seaboard Street, Bladenboro, North Carolina 28320 65499 CFV Three Rivers Clinic 580 West Mclean Street, Saint Pauls, North Carolina 28384 65606 CFV - Harnett Surgical 803 Tilghman Drive, Dunn, North Carolina 28334 66277 CFV BCH White Lake 273 White Lake Drive, White Lake, North Carolina 28337 71811 CAPE - Cancer Center 805 Tilghman Dr., Dunn, North Carolina 28334 .