Press Releases
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Selects
PHNS
DALLAS, TX- June 26, 2006 –
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, a 100 bed
hospital located in southwest Louisiana has selected PHNS to
provide remote coding services. PHNS’ commitment to coding
quality and turnaround time will have a positive impact on
Lake Charles’ information flow and revenue cycle. PHNS offers
both remote and onsite coding for hospitals. PHNS’ coding
services are “site specific” services that are customized to
fit the exact requirements and needs of its hospital
customers.
PHNS’ HIM Division currently
provides interim staff placement, coding, auditing, education,
release of information, records management and transcription for
over 350 healthcare customers. All services are offered on an
“as needed” basis or on a full service outsourcing
relationship.
About Lake Charles Memorial Hospital: Lake Charles
Memorial Hospital is southwest Louisiana’s largest
family-centered medical complex, serving the healthcare needs of
all of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas. Lake Charles
Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit facility, publicly owned
and operated by a Board of Trustees from the community it
services. The hospital is a shareholder of Voluntary Hospitals
of America (VHA) and is fully licensed by the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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) and receivables management services.
Serving more than 400 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates
business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing
technology, providing capital dollars 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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