Arizona health system to use Lawson solutions to help manage
financials, supply chain, HR and nurse scheduling processes
May 26, 2011 (Business Wire) -- Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that Yavapai Regional Medical Center, a not-for-profit hospital system based in Prescott, AZ, licensed multiple enterprise software solutions, including Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management, Supply Chain Management, and Human Capital Management suites. As part of the contract, Yavapai Regional Medical Center will also implement Lawson Smart Office, Talent Management and Workforce Management applications. The contract was signed during the third quarter of Lawson's 2011 fiscal year, which ended Feb. 28, 2011.
Yavapai Regional Medical Center is a state-of-the-art hospital system consisting of two campuses with 185 beds, an outpatient center and 1,900 employees. Yavapai has received national recognition for the James Family Heart Center and was named one of America's Top 100 Hospitals by Thomson Reuters.
Yavapai Regional had a number of disparate and aging business systems in place that produced reports with varying data, which impacted decision making by managers and directors. In searching for a solution, the organization focused on identifying an enterprise-wide solution that would help optimize and standardize business operations to help reduce costs, improve employee engagement and streamline processes such as employee benefits enrollment.
"Yavapai Regional Medical Center has been around since 1943, and our communities depend on us to provide high-quality patient care and services," said Randy Rahman, CIO for Yavapai Regional Medical Center. "Lawson has a proven track record of helping healthcare organizations like ours improve business operations and reduce overall costs. With the Lawson applications, we will be able to pull timely data and create reports that can help support critical decisions across our health system to help increase our productivity and efficiency. This frees up our staff from time-consuming administrative tasks so they can focus on fulfilling our mission and vision to deliver high-quality patient care."
In addition, with Lawson Talent Management and Workforce Management, Yavapai Regional Medical Center will have the tools to help improve employee satisfaction, manage existing and future workforce levels appropriately and manage nurse staffing levels to match the health system's patient flow.
"Healthcare organizations today are finding that they need to trust their data and have more visibility into that data to help them make the right decisions and to put the right people in the right place at the right time, said Jim Catalino, general manager for Lawson Healthcare.