Former hospital CEO from Bon Secours Charity Health System
with expertise in turnarounds and improving hospital profitability
joins StatCom in a strategic partnership program that helps
hospitals transform their throughput operations.
Atlanta, GA - February 15, 2010 - StatCom announces the addition of Tom
Brunelle FACHE, MBA, to the StatCom team. Previously Brunelle
served as EVP and CEO of the Warwick, NY and Port Jervis, NY
hospitals for the Bon Secours Charity Health System, and EVP and
COO of the Samaritan Health system in Watertown, NY. Brunelle is
described by his peers and direct reports as "an excellent leader,
very trustworthy, with high integrity, and complete knowledge of
hospital operations having worked his way up through the system,
starting as a Respiratory Therapist." The CEO of the Bon Secour
system who Brunelle reported to noted that the Warwick hospital had
been the "super star hospital in the Bon Secour system as far as
clinical quality and patient care and flow under Tom's
leadership.
"Brunelle is known as an executive with turnaround capability,
demonstrated at the hospitals for which he has been responsible,
and an effective leader of the medical staff and executive boards.
He has experience in managing both independent hospitals and
multi-facility systems and in each executive role has improved
profitability through revenue growth, cost reduction, physician
practice development, new program development and improving
customer service in competitive markets. During Brunelle's hospital
executive leadership career, he also served on multiple regional
and national system task forces and committees focused on improving
clinical quality, reducing length of stay, reducing costs, and
upgrading information technology systems.
StatCom's Hospital Operating
SystemTM solution, through process re-engineering
and enabling software, helps hospitals transform their operations
to deliver efficient patient throughput, reduced ALOS, and improved
physician, patient and staff satisfaction. Client results are
remarkable, delivering as much as $10.3 million and five times the
ROI in the first 12 months of a StatCom strategic partner
engagement.
In his role as enterprise VP, Brunelle partners with client
hospital executives to ensure the success of their transformation
project. Assisting him are executive advisors and transformation
engineers who collaborate with existing hospital resources to drive
the process transformation methodology. An implementation team maps
the future state process flows and key performance indicators
(KPI's) into the technology and completes all necessary interfaces
to integrate the Hospital Operating System solution into the
hospital's IT platform. Dashboards deliver real-time operational
performance information to executives and operational managers. The
outcome is breakthrough operational performance
"Tom has demonstrated success as a CEO in taking hospitals to a
high level of performance and is familiar with all aspects of
hospital operations," said Ben Sawyer, StatCom executive vice
president. "His experience will serve other hospital senior
executives well as their StatCom partner in transforming throughput
operations."
About StatCom
Through process re-engineering and enabling software, StatCom's
Hospital Operating SystemTM helps hospitals transform
their operations to deliver efficient patient throughput, reduced
ALOS, and improved physician, patient and staff satisfaction. The
solution eliminates the fragmentation normally associated with
silo-based operations so that patient throughput processes across
all departments are synchronized. This enables all patients,
simultaneously, to flow at their best possible rate with respect to
LOS, service, quality, safety, and resource consumption. StatCom is
a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare®, a group of
companies focused on providing the healthcare industry with
innovative people resources and IT solutions. For more information,
visit www.statcom.com, or contact
StatCom at 800.930.0870 or at info@statcom.com.