Pen and paper were more than sufficient for record keeping when the hospital in Licking County, OH, was operating with nine donated beds. But a lot has happened in the more than 100 years since the facility opened in a nine-room house in this growing community about 30 miles east of the state’s capitol. Today, the 227-bed Licking Memorial Hospital (LMH) supports a staff of more than 1,600 professionals and boasts a 21st century electronic record-keeping system. Anchoring that system is a new 2,520-square-foot (sq ft) data center, completed in 2011.
“The new data center is the proactive solution that resulted from a comprehensive review of our ever-increasing digital storage needs,” said Rob Montagnese, Licking Memorial Health Systems president and CEO, “We felt that it was imperative to invest financial resources to ensure the safety of the Health Systems’ digital files and patient information.”