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Ranked among the top 15 healthcare providers in the United States, Asante Health and its 5,800 employees provide care to 9 counties in Southern Oregon. More than 600,000 patients rely on its carefully managed quality care. It, in turn, relied on a voice system for internal and external communication.
With three main locations in Ashland, Medford, and Grants Pass, Oregon, as well as several other physician and healthcare partners, Asante is the medical crux of this region of the west coast. For years, it relied on legacy phone systems from Siemens, Avaya, and Cisco to maintain its hospital network, but as the 2020’s approached it was time to refresh.
Asante looked to deploy a new addition to its Cisco Call Manager that would help increase efficiency and improve communication. Early in the process, Asante was faced with the difficulty of managing systems from Avaya, Siemens, and Cisco all at once. The wide variety of systems were a source of confusion and frustration for its users. Asante wanted to consolidate these systems to make it easier to continue expanding its Cisco network.
Continuant had been providing support for Asante’s Avaya and Siemens systems prior to the Cisco migration. Asante decided then to expand the Cisco infrastructure and upgrade each hospital with a commitment to building in more redundancy. Asante also requested that Continuant help migrate its Ashland hospital using Avaya, to the new Cisco infrastructure.
COVID-19 forced Asante and Continuant to alter some plans, but still both companies remained focused on completing the mission. The Asante and Continuant teams continued to move the migration forward, getting closer to their goal of a fully unified Cisco solution with each passing month.
Asante is currently continuing its Cisco migration. With support and strategy from Continuant, Asante can continue to stay connected with its community to provide the superb level of healthcare their patients are accustomed to.
“I wouldn’t be able to do my job without Continuant, providing the day to day management of our system.”
-Shriners IT Team Member.
“Having a partner with one hand to shake instead of one throat to choke for the management of our UC solution and telephone support has been a great advantage to Shriners. It’s saved Shriners in resources of 3-4 FTE (Full time employees) to help manage our environment.”
-Glen Boomdram, IT Network & Telecommunications Manager
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