NEWS

Quantros ACE Helps East Jefferson General Hospital Achieve Best-in-Class Performance

New Case Study Details Productivity Gains, Process Improvements Realized with Quantros Accreditation and Compliance Excellence Solution

July 16, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - Quantros, a leading provider of safety and quality software and professional services solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the highly positive results East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH) has achieved through its use of the Quantros Accreditation and Compliance Excellence (ACE) solution. A new case study details how Quantros ACE™ has helped EJGH, a state-of-the-art, 454-bed facility located in Metairie, LA, move closer to its goal of achieving best-in-class performance in every department.

“EJGH has achieved broader staff engagement and gained access to robust reporting through the use of Quantros ACE,” said Janet Davis, PT, MPH, FACHE, Organizational Effectiveness Director at EJGH. “By streamlining our compliance activities, we’ve realized significant time savings and process improvements with Quantros.“

Selected results achieved by EJGH include:

• Expanded communication and education of staff organization-wide
• Reduced manual data entry time and increased accuracy of forms
• Empowered committees to conduct discussions and make decisions using accurate, timely data
• Improved performance reporting to the hospital wide Quality Council, the Medical Executive Committee and Board of Directors
• Helped dramatically decrease overall compliance management costs

The complete case study can be downloaded at the Quantros website, http://www.quantros.com/ejghcasestudy07152009.html

About Quantros

Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, more than 2,000 healthcare facilities are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

Quantros is a healthcare information management technology company with a difference: our key product decisions are driven by experts in healthcare quality and performance improvement, safety, compliance, risk management and nursing. Team members include physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals.

Visit Quantros on the web at www.quantros.com.

About East Jefferson General Hospital

Opening on Valentine’s Day, 1971, East Jefferson General Hospital started as a 250-bed facility with almost 250 physicians serving the newly burgeoning suburbs on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish. Today, EJGH is Louisiana’s first Nurse Magnet Hospital and stands as a state-of-the-art hospital with 454 beds specializing in almost every clinical area. Still a community hospital with a board comprised of representatives throughout the community, our patients are served by a staff of more than 3,000 team members and almost 700 physicians.

Visit East Jefferson General Hospital on the web at www.ejgh.org