Poudre Valley Health System

Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare

Poudre Valley Health System is a regional health system that serves in-patient and out-patient needs of patients in northern Colorado, western Nebraska, and southern Wyoming. Discover how they partnered with Philips to provide world class, innovative health care at Medical Center of the Rockies.

Partnership for Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare

Partnership for Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare

"Before we participate with any partner, we have to make sure that their standards are our standards. Philips came and presented to us an unbelievable relationship opportunity."

Rulon Stacey, PhD, FACHE, CEO, Poudre Valley Health System


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Streamlining Workflow for World-class Care

Streamlining Workflow for World-class Care

"The most important thing to the Physician's for interoperability is the one-stop shopping. They can sit down and see whatever they want to see, and not have to go to different work stations."

Gretchen Allman, Ancillary Applications Manager, Information Service


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Optimizing Service and Upgrade Paths

Optimizing Service and Upgrade Paths

"With Philips, you're dealing with an entire organization that is there to support our needs. And from our perspective, that is something that we have really been thrilled with."

Jack Retzlaff, Director of Radiology, Medical Center of the Rockies


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Developing a Dose Reduction Plan for Diagnostic Radiology

Developing a Dose Reduction Plan for Diagnostic Radiology

"We lowered our doses by 53% of where they were when we started. It allowed us to lower the doses for every person that has an exam using those technologies."

Jack Retzlaff, Director of Radiology, Medical Center of the Rockies


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Creating a Malcolm Baldrige Winning Healthcare Organization

Creating a Malcolm Baldrige Winning Healthcare Organization

Teamwork for us is the key to success. The innovations that we've incorporated here are a result of the design and planning of our facility.

George Hayes, FACHE, CEO, Medical Center of the Rockies


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Patient Monitoring

Patient Monitoring

The system's interconnected enough that a nurse who's taking care of more than one patient can not only view her one patient from bedside, she can in other patient's room as well.

Mark Wilson, Supervisor, cardiovascular Laboratory


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Greening of a Healthcare Facility

Greening of a Healthcare Facility

As we were looking to build Medical Center of the Rockies, one of the main focuses we had here was obviously in our patients and the care that they're going to receive and as we looked at different models to build our hospital, we looked at LEED.

Douglas Faus, FACHE, Vice President of Operations, Medical Center of the Rockies


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Systemwide Solutions for Cardiology

Systemwide Solutions for Cardiology

We as cardiologists were very involved in the architectural design of the hospital from the very beginning... deciding equipment and how it would interface.

Thomas Downes, MD, Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab


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