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A change in philosophy
The foundation for good health starts with selecting the best care from the best resources.
Mercy Health Partners (MHP), a member of Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), and a
recognized leader in providing quality, cost-effective healthcare, further embraced that
philosophy by examining their IS functions after acquiring another regional health system.
An initial checkup revealed that to provide better service for patients visiting the hospitals in
the CHP network, there was a need to update their server philosophy.
CHP, based in Cincinnati, needed to combine their autonomous regional IS data center
functions to provide a more effective and efficient application deployment. Of utmost interest
was the consolidation from several regional data centers to the company’s two Ohio mega
data centers located in Cincinnati and Youngstown.
“Our core challenge is to provide cost-effective application deployment to desktops,”
explained Ben Patrick, senior database administrator for Mercy Health Partners. “We are
spread across the country and every regional system on our network has its own copy of
most of the applications. We had multiple copies of the same application, on multiple servers
with multiple people managing that technology. The goal is to consolidate hardware to one
of two facilities, and then come back and examine consolidating the same or similar
applications to an effective solution.”
In addition to the consolidation of the two organizations, MHP was outgrowing its current
data center and faced many issues with regular KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switches.
“It’s been one of the best
purchases this company has ever
made and has enabled us to do
tons of cost saving features and
initiatives. We’ve definitely cut
data center space.”
Ben Patrick
Senior Database Administrator
Mercy Health Partners
Case Study
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