Stoltenberg Consultant Assumes Interim CIO Position at Nanticoke Hospital

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) September 27, 2007 -- Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., a leading healthcare industry information technology consulting firm, announced recently that Chris Adair, one of the company's leading consultants, has assumed the position of interim CIO and IT Director at Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, Delaware. Adair's mission at Nanticoke is to optimize the capabilities and efficiencies of the hospital's information systems which are primarily being provided by Cerner Corporation.

Adair has restructured the IT department and added some new, key members in order to provide ongoing maintenance and smooth change controls as needed IT modifications are made. Multiple major projects are under way to optimize system efficiencies and to make the IT systems' workflow match the hospital's workflow: OR scheduling and peri-op documentation improvements, overall optimization of nursing clinical documentation, major coding upgrades, and platform upgrades as the hospital considers moving to a hosted service.

"We are very pleased with the way the projects are going. Our hospital wanted a fresh, new perspective on how we could best optimize our IT resources and Stoltenberg is providing that service," commented, Vendla Esler, Vice President of Patient Care Services at Nanticoke Hospital.

"Our goal is to have optimum IT solutions in place as quickly as possible. With the superb cooperation of the hospital's present IT staff, we are making excellent progress," explained Adair. "All of our initiatives are well under way and we are presently negotiating the hosted service solution."

About Nanticoke Hospital

Nanticoke Memorial Hospital was incorporated in 1945 by a group of citizens concerned by the lack of health care facilities in western Sussex County, Delaware. Now organized under the corporate title of Nanticoke Health Services, what started as a 32-bed hospital has grown to include extended care, outpatient services, and medical centers across Sussex County Delaware that provide a host of preventive medicine and health education programs. Each part of Nanticoke Health Services works together to fulfill their mission statement: We exist to positively impact our communities' quality of life through improved health status.

About Stoltenberg Consulting

Founded in 1995, Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. creates an environment for success by working with health care organizations to provide a variety of services including project management, implementation support and integration between systems. Members of the Stoltenberg Consulting team are consultants with extensive experience in both financial and clinical systems, averaging more than 15 years of direct on-site hospital experience. Stoltenberg Consulting has grown rapidly to serve a client base of more than 80 preeminent healthcare organizations throughout the United States providing services for Siemens, Eclipsys, McKesson, GE, IDX, Epic, and Cerner customers. For more information call 1-888-724-1326 or visit www.stoltenberg.com.

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