Description
Saint Louis University Hospital, also widely known as SLU Hospital, has been owned by the Tenet Healthcare Corporation since 1998. SLU Hospital is a 356-bed academic teaching hospital and is the main teaching hospital for Saint Louis University School of Medicine. SLU Hospital has been recognized by US News & World Report magazine as one of the top 10 geriatric hospitals in the United States. The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of the St. Louis community for more than 70 years. SLU Hospital is a regional leader in providing tertiary-quaternary health care and is also a certified Level I Trauma Center in both Missouri and Illinois. Other specialties include geriatrics, orthopedics, rheumatology, urology, heart care and digestive diseases. SLU Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. SLU Hospital has an organ transplant programs that offers lung, kidney, kidney-pancreas, liver, bone and cornea transplants.
Challenge: Rapid growth in the data center driven by the increased use of digital medical imagery threaten to exhaust the available space and power; limited management staff to support IT and Facilities.
Solution: No Limits Software RaMP data center management platform
Results:
- Moved from tracking assets with spreadsheets to intuitive visual view of the data center
- Auto-discovery provides accurate and detailed information about both IT and Facilities assets
- Automated change management tracks all configuration changes, even those made without authorization
- Power monitoring down to the device level gives full visibility into power usage throughout the
data center
