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Press Releases
Augustine Health Selects PHNS
DALLAS, TX - January 18, 2008 - Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division’s University Medical Center (UMC), a 117 bed acute care hospital located in Lafayette, Louisiana, has chosen PHNS to provide interim management services for its Health Information Management (HIM) and coding department. PHNS will provide UMC with an experienced, credentialed HIM professional to oversee the operations of the HIM and coding departments.
PHNS' HIM Division currently provides interim staff placement, coding, auditing, education, release of information, records management and transcription services for over 385 healthcare customers. All services are offered on an "as needed" basis or on a full service outsourcing relationship.
About UMC and LSU Health Care Services Division: Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division (LSU HCSD) consists of eight hospitals throughout the State of Louisiana. It provides quality medical care to residents of Louisiana, regardless of income or insurance coverage; and it provides for the State's medical and clinical education needs, thereby ensuring all Louisianans the availability of well-trained health professionals. UMC offers Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Interventional Radiology in addition to the primary care services it provides. Since the closure of various hospitals in New Orleans, UMC has acquired the services of a transplant surgeon, and renal and pancreas transplants are performed on appropriate candidates. The LSU interventional cardiology department also relocated to UMC resulting in UMC becoming the referral center for the other hospitals in the system. See www.lsuhospitals.org for additional information about LSU HCSD and UMC.
About PHNS: PHNS provides comprehensive healthcaring solutions for hospitals including information technology, health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory and receivables management services. Serving more than 425 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand. This allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care. PHNS is a national healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.
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