Alverno Clinical Laboratories And PCL Alverno Strengthen Support Of Local Community Through New Transportation Partnership With MedSpeed Healthcare Transportation
New transportation network developed and managed by MedSpeed provides logistical framework for streamlined operations, enhanced control, increased quality and meaningful cost savings.
Elmhurst, IL (PRWEB)
As part of its dedication to support the provision of quality care to its local community, Alverno Clinical Laboratories (Alverno) provides management support services to a full service, community based medical laboratory, Professional Clinical Laboratories, LLC, d/b/a PCL Alverno (PCL Alverno). PCL Alverno performs over 750 different tests in both clinical and anatomic pathology. To enhance its management services to PCL Alverno, Alverno has entered into a strategic transportation partnership with MedSpeed. MedSpeed is an HFMA peer-reviewed partner that strengthens supply chain and overall business operations through centralized healthcare transportation networks. This partnership includes a new, centralized transportation network to help Alverno more efficiently support its more than 500 customers, including hospitals, patient service centers and outreach clinics, in over 430 locations.
“As we expand to better serve our community and our customers, we recognized the need to unify and streamline the backbone of our transportation system to attain enhanced control over day-to-day operations, increase quality and generate meaningful cost savings,” said Samuel Terese, president and chief executive officer, Alverno.
“MedSpeed is the ideal partner for Alverno and our customers for a number of reasons, particularly the company’s dedication and support of its employees,” said Bernard H. Henry, vice president of human resources, Alverno. “This was very important in our decision-making process because we want to make sure that jobs will stay within the local community, and that is a key part of MedSpeed’s business model.”
“We are pleased to be working with such a dedicated member of the Northern Indiana healthcare community to drive quality and streamline transportation,” said Jake Crampton, CEO, MedSpeed. “I am confident that our partnership will support Alverno’s commitment to its customers to remain a strong thriving presence in its local market and the healthcare community in general.”
About Alverno and PCL Alverno
Alverno provides management support services for PCL Alverno, a centralized laboratory for the hospitals of Presence Health and Franciscan Alliance. Alverno also serves a customer network of physicians and other care providers in Illinois and Indiana. Alverno sets itself apart by offering friendly, personal service to assist its customer in providing high quality, cost effecting services. PCL Alverno is a regional leader in laboratory medicine and expertly trained clinical staff processed more than 14 million tests in 2009. PCL Alverno is located at 2434 Interstate Plaza Drive, Hammond, IN 46324. To learn more about PCL Alverno’s laboratory services, visithttp://www.PCLAlverno.com.
About MedSpeed
Every patient interaction, from a routine clinic visit to an urgent blood transfusion, relies in some way on the same-day pickup and delivery of a specimen, pharmaceutical, radiology film, blood product, medical record or supply. MedSpeed is an ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare transportation solutions provider that strengthens supply chain and overall business operations through centralized transportation networks. MedSpeed has also been granted the "Peer Reviewed by HFMA®" designation, a rigorous eleven-step objective third party evaluation of products and services conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). For more than eleven years, MedSpeed’s Lean Six Sigma approach to transportation design and execution has transformed transportation into globally-optimized, leverageble logistical frameworks that consistently deliver operational quality, economic value and strategic advantage.
SOURCE: PRWeb
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