Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare in Louisville, Ky., like all healthcare facilities, is in the business of healing. The hospital system, known for several medical firsts including the world’s first successful hand transplant, needed some healing of its own several years ago and found the solution with the Windstream team in Lexington, Ky. “Communication is critical in any work place but most especially a hospital where lives are on the line everyday,” said Bob Greenwell, assistant director of network operations for the hospital system. “And with about 12,000 phone lines throughout the hospital system it is imperative that we receive the best possible products and services to care for our patients.”

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Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s Healthcare
Renowned hospital system depends on Windstream to care for its communications newtork
Background
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare in Louisville, Ky., like all healthcare facilities, is in the business
of healing. The hospital system, known for several medical firsts including the world’s first successful
hand transplant, needed some healing of its own several years ago and found the solution with the
Windstream team in Lexington, Ky.
“Communication is critical in any work place but most especially a hospital where lives are on the line
everyday,” said Bob Greenwell, assistant director of network operations for the hospital system. “And
with about 12,000 phone lines throughout the hospital system it is imperative that we receive the best
possible products and services to care for our patients.”
According to Greenwell, JHSMH was not getting the level of telecommunications service demanded of
a premier heart and transplant hospital, so he went looking for a change.
“The sales support was spotty with our previous phone equipment vendor,” Greenwell says. “Our sales
representative just wouldn’t return a phone call. The first opportunity we had to get out of that
relationship, we did.”
Not long afterward, in 1997, Windstream began serving JHSMH, now one of Windstream’s largest out-
of-territory customers.
Solutions
Today, Windstream maintains and services several Avaya (formerly Nortel) PBX systems serving
JHSMH, plus one carrier remote and one fiber remote, along with approximately 80 Norstar key
systems. Windstream also provides local access services to one of the system’s hospitals located in
nearby Shepherdsville, Ky. The Shepherdsville site is connected to the main hospital in Louisville via a
one-gigabit data pipe.
“The customer service and support is excellent with Windstream,” said Greenwell. “The company is
flexible, and our sales rep is close by. If there is ever a problem or concern or a need, I have
Windstream feet on the street here, literally.”

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The ‘feet on the street’ refers to three full-time Windstream customer service technicians who are solely
dedicated to serving JHSMH. In fact, the hospital serves as their daily base of operation.
“We turn things around quickly,” says Herman Thomas, Windstream’s director of business solutions in
Kentucky. “We are a good advocate of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare within Windstream,
and we give them the service they expect for the dollars they pay. It’s a relationship we’re committed to
maintaining.”
Results
The relationship between Windstream and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare has flourished in
the last decade. As the hospital system has grown—adding facilities, specialties and doctors—they
have relied on Windstream for expanded communications connectivity and expertise.
If your business is interested in implementing similar technologies, please call Windstream at 888-673-
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