Elwyn, a 5,000-employee human services nonprofit, has implemented Comcast Business (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Ethernet and voice services across its nationwide locations. The deployment is intended to let Elwyn transition to electronic medical record (EMR) and hosted cloud services to improve sharing of client and health information and centralize its HR and payroll functions.
Founded in 1852, Elwyn provides services from early intervention screenings and care coordination for children in Philadelphia who may have autism to residential offerings with accompanying day and vocational programs for people with intellectual disabilities. Elwyn also has a range of educational programs, including the largest Approved Private School in Pennsylvania, and behavioral health services for children and adults. The organization serves 20,000 individuals across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and California.
Comcast Business provided Elwyn with a 14-site Ethernet Network Service (ENS) connecting the nonprofit's 12 offices and two data centers with capacity ranging from 20-500 Mbps. Additionally, Elwyn implemented PRI Trunks, a hosted voice solution, across six of its locations in Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as Business Internet at more than 85 sites nationwide.
"The time before and after our transition to Comcast Business was like night and day. We've quadrupled our network capacity but are still paying the same amount we were with our previous provider," said Edwin Rodriguez, director of IT operations at Elwyn. "Our teams can access the information they need as if they were sitting next to each other rather than from the other side of the country, and our network can scale as we continue rolling out new technologies across our organization. But the real beauty of our Comcast Business solution is that it's simple. It just works."