Sierra View Local Health Care District Selects Pavisse™ to Manage Incidents and Enhance Patient Safety

September 23, 2015 12:00 AM EDT
Sierra View Local Health Care District Selects Pavisse™ to Manage Incidents and Enhance Patient Safety

SAN FRANCISCO - September 23, 2015 - RGP Healthcare™, a division of Resources Global Professionals (NASDAQ: RECN), today announced that Sierra View Local Health Care District is implementing Pavisse™, an integrated incident management and patient safety system, across all its facilities.

Pavisse, developed by RGP Healthcare, is a comprehensive patient safety and peer review solution designed to help hospitals, clinics and senior living communities manage adverse events and other compliance-related functions across the enterprise.

Sierra View, which serves the Southern Sequoia region of California's Central Valley, is deploying Pavisse system wide to monitor, track and remediate incidents and enhance patient safety. Pavisse also will help Sierra View generate reports that can be automatically routed to managers on a timely basis. Sierra View's facilities include: Sierra View Medical Center, The Distinct Part Skilled Nursing Facility (DP/SNF) at Sierra View, Sierra View District Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Department, Dialysis Center at Sierra View Medical Center, Roger S. Good Cancer Treatment Center, and Sierra View Medical Plaza.

"Sierra View is a healthcare leader in the Central Valley, and we are pleased they have chosen Pavisse to enhance their commitment to patient safety and well being," said RGP Healthcare President Radgia Cook.

About Sierra View Local Health Care District

Sierra View Local Health Care District offers a 167-bed, full-service acute care facility (Sierra View Medical Center) located in Porterville, Calif. The medical center serves the Southern Sequoia region of California's Central Valley and is the pre-eminent health care provider in the area. In 2003, Sierra View opened its Medical Office Building, which houses hospital outpatient services along with office space for support staff. In 2005, the Cancer Treatment Center completed an extensive expansion and remodeling project that saw the facility nearly double in size. Most recently, Sierra View completed its new outpatient Dialysis Center. Recent enhancements include the addition of a state of the art MRI and CT scan - putting Sierra View on par with UCLA and UCSF; an expanded full service Cancer Care facility; and a seven-bed pediatric unit operated in collaboration with Children's Hospital of Central California.

About Pavisse

A highly affordable and effective incident management system, Pavisse™ has the unique ability to capture incident data and provide required reports to multiple patient safety organizations (PSOs) and state agencies on-demand or via a set scheduling process that includes quarterly and annual report capabilities. Healthcare organizations (HCOs) can customize workflow, data collection, analysis and reporting to meet specific needs without the need for complex data transformations or double data-entry. Content-driven, Pavisse can be easily applied to potentially any type of incident management workflow. Innovative reporting capabilities provide executive dashboard overview and monitoring as well as unparalleled internal benchmarking and Pareto graphing for easy-to-understand outcomes and problem area identification. Dynamic automated workflow provides unique issue audit and corrective action plan (CAP) capabilities, and the CAP Toolkit includes an extensive online archive of global best practices. Learn more at www.pavisse.com

About RGP Healthcare

Headquartered in San Francisco, RGP Healthcare, the healthcare division of Resources Global Professionals, was created to meet the growing needs of the healthcare sector. Its consultants have deep industry knowledge and experience in a variety of disciplines, particularly patient safety, incident management, and remediation. Other specialty areas include sentinel event analysis, management of hospital readmissions, regulatory and HIPAA compliance, ICD-10 education, revenue cycle management, and other professional services that support and enhance the strategic initiatives of healthcare organizations of any type, including acute and long-term care providers.

About RGP

RGP, the operating subsidiary of Resources Connection, Inc. (NASDAQ: RECN), is a multinational professional services firm that helps business leaders execute internal initiatives. Partnering with business leaders, we drive internal change across all parts of a global enterprise - accounting, finance, risk management and internal audit, corporate advisory, strategic communications and restructuring, information management, human capital, supply chain management, healthcare solutions, and legal and regulatory services.

RGP was founded in 1996 within a Big Four accounting firm. Today, we are a publicly traded company with over 3,300 professionals, annually serving over 1,700 clients around the world from 68 practice offices.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, RGP has served 87 of the Fortune 100 companies.

The Company is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the exchange's highest tier by listing standards. More information about RGP is available at http://www.rgp.com.

On the Net

Sierra View Local Health Care District: www.sierra-view.com

Pavisse: www.pavisse.com

RGP Healthcare: www.rgphealthcare.com

RGP: www.rgp.com

Contacts

RGP/Wendy Tanaka, Sitrick And Company, (415) 369-8447