Streamlined Data Entry and Simplified Scenario Planning Saves Time and Adds Value to Decision Makers
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Centage
Tech Stack
- Excel
- Sage CPSI
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Replenishment
Services
- Training
About The Customer
Mountain View Hospital is a healthcare facility located in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Founded in 2002, the hospital has grown to encompass a wide array of specialty practices and services in addition to its 43-inpatient-bed hospital. The hospital offers several healthcare services to the region, including an on-site urgent-care service, speech and language therapy, advanced wound care, an infusion center, and a health and fitness academy. The hospital is also actively involved in the community, sponsoring dozens of charities each year with events ranging from summer concerts to toy drives. Recently, Mountain View surpassed the 1,000-employee mark and currently budgets for just over 60 departments and cost centers.
The Challenge
Mountain View Hospital, a healthcare facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was facing challenges with its budgeting and forecasting process. The hospital, which has over 1,000 employees and more than 60 departments and cost centers, was using Excel for these processes. However, as the hospital continued to grow, Excel became increasingly difficult to use, especially when adding new acquisitions or modifying projections. Simple modifications posed significant risk of errors due to the necessary changes in formulas and formats. The hospital's expansive budget spreadsheet had grown to over 40 tabs, making it impossible to perform meaningful what-if scenarios or analyze the data in a detailed manner. If the hospital continued to use Excel and continued to grow, it would likely have needed additional staff.
The Solution
Mountain View Hospital began evaluating several budgeting and forecasting solutions. They were initially attracted to an industry-specific option, but quickly shifted their interest to Centage after seeing what it had to offer. Centage's clean, user-friendly interface and comprehensive what-if scenario planning would enable the hospital to uncover options and considerations that likely would have gone unnoticed before. Additionally, Centage's robust analytics capabilities would provide the necessary metrics and the ability to mold report presentations to the format that the management team was accustomed to, easing the adoption process. The budget was loaded into the solution along with several prior year actuals, providing immediate value by giving access to variance analyses and reporting capabilities that they weren’t able to capture before.
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