Baar (CH), July 2008 - King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, has opted for the i-qbox Human Performance Suite as strategic tool to support training and competence management. For the Swiss-based Comartis Group Ltd. and Comartis USA in Tucson, Arizona, this is another important success in providing Swiss-quality software for the global market.
King's Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) is a locally controlled, non-profit, 385-bed regional referral center in Ashland, Kentucky. KDMC offers comprehensive cardiac, medical, surgical, pediatric, rehabilitative, psychiatric, cancer, neurological, pain care, wound care, and home care services. Established in 1899, KDMC currently ranks fourth in the state of Kentucky in terms of overall admissions, and, with approximately 3,600 team members, is one of the largest employers in the region.
To provide world-class care to its communities, KDMC relies on highly skilled and motivated teams in a range of fields. Its recent listing in "FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work for" clearly reflects the great attention paid to attracting and keeping the best people.
Learning and organizational development is a must to expand and maintain the high quality of KDMC's services. A Learning and Organizational Development team is responsible for training KDMC team members and affiliated community members. The department coordinates leadership education, clinical education, continuing nursing education, continuing medical education, CPR training, new team-member orientation, and customer service courses.
To facilitate management and delivery of its numerous education and training programs, KDMC evaluated a range of Learning Management Systems. Comartis USA, part of the Swiss-based Comartis Group Ltd., is proud that KDMC chose its i-qbox Human Performance Suite.
Neal Cooper, Training Manager at KDMC, summarized the decision as follows: "The i-qbox Human Performance Suite turned out to provide all the necessary features, including advanced competence management, at very attractive pricing. We also liked the fast response of Comartis USA in Tucson to whatever questions we had in the evaluation process."
Comartis Group Ltd. is very proud to have won KDMC as a customer. As Reto Schilliger, Vice President Marketing & Sales states: "KDMC's decision for the i-qbox once again proves our success in combining Swiss quality in software engineering with competitive conditions for the global market. We are very confident that we will win more contracts soon, even when competing with large public enterprises."
