Press Releases

05/30/2006
Another Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine Hospital selects PHNS

Providence Hospital, a 247-bed hospital located in beautiful downtown Columbia, South Carolina, has selected PHNS to provide an onsite audit of the inpatient coding division of its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Providence Hospital with a thorough review of inpatient medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, and also will provide any necessary recommendations and education to the coding staff. PHNS currently provides remote coding and onsite coding compliance audit services to Providence Hospital’s sister hospitals: St.

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05/30/2006
Abington Memorial Hospital Selects PHNS for Onsite Coding Compliance Audit

As part of its endeavor to maintain excellence as a healthcare provider, Abington Memorial Hospital has selected PHNS to provide an onsite audit of the inpatient and outpatient coding division of its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Abington Memorial Hospital with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to review inpatient and outpatient medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, together with any necessary recommendations and education to its coding staff.

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05/24/2006
Karmanos Cancer Center Enters Medical Records Relationship with PHNS

PHNS announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide all medical records management services to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Hospital d/b/a Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit, Michigan. Karmanos Cancer Center is Michigan’s first and only hospital exclusively focused on caring for cancer patients. It recently became an independent entity by acquiring the cancer hospital operations of The Detroit Medical Center, where PHNS has been providing medical records management services since 2002.

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05/19/2006
Chief Financial Officer Announced

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12/19/2005
LSU’s Bogalusa Medical Center Expands Medical Records Relationship with PHNS

PHNS announced that it has expanded its medical records services relationship with Louisiana State University’s Bogalusa Medical Center to include conversion of paper medical records into an electronic based system. PHNS currently provides management, storage and retrieval services for Bogalusa’s medical records through PHNS’ New Orleans-based Hunter Medical Systems.

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12/05/2005
Ballinger Memorial Hospital Signs Coding Agreement with PHNS

Ballinger Memorial Hospital, Ballinger, Texas, has signed a medical record coding service agreement with PHNS to improve Ballinger’s coding, information flow and revenue cycle.  Initially Ballinger will send emergency department medical records to PHNS for coding, after which it plans to send outpatient and inpatient records to PHNS for coding. PHNS also will provide Ballinger’s physicians with clinic coding, DRG reviews, auditing and APC reviews.

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11/28/2005
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Obtains Interim HIM Director from PHNS

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa, California, has retained PHNS to provide an Interim HIM Director to manage Santa Rosa’s medical records, transcription, coding and release of information operations. PHNS will provide these interim services while Santa Rosa searches for a permanent HIM Director.

In addition to interim health information management services, PHNS provides full medical records management, transcription, coding, medical records storage, release of information and related services to hospitals and other healthcare providers.

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08/31/2005
BR General Receives Flood of Patients
PHNS Helps Baton Rouge Hospital Maintain Communications

As New Orleans hospitals are forced to evacuate, major trauma and critical care hospitals in Louisiana are being deluged with patients. One of those is Baton Rouge General (www.brgeneral.org) which is operating on generator power and crowding patients into every available unused space in the hospital.

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08/28/2005
Louisiana Hospitals “Batten Down” for Hurricane
Dallas IT company helps southern Louisiana hospitals prepare for catastrophic event

If Hurricane Katrina continues its “potentially catastrophic” path, southern Louisiana hospitals could face unprecedented crises. And, the crises would not only occur in New Orleans where the eye of the storm seems to be headed. Forecasters are predicting that the storm’s impact will reach deep inland in the state.

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08/28/2005
This is Not a Test
Real Life Disaster Drill for IT Health Care Firm

Since Sunday, Louisiana’s hospitals have been facing electrical outages, flooding, and, in some cases, evacuation. At the same time, hospitals are trying to remain open so they can care for victims of Hurricane Katrina. That’s why PHNS, a healthcare IT firm with one of the few full hospital outsourcing contracts in Louisiana, has been on high alert since Friday to prepare for Hurricane Katrina’s slam into southern Louisiana.

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