3t Systems Inks Co-Sourcing IT Agreement with Mental Health Center of Denver

3t Systems Inks Co-Sourcing IT Agreement with Mental Health Center of Denver
3t Systems Healthcare Solutions helps healthcare organizations leverage IT to boost the bottom line

The Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) and 3t Systems inked a three-year managed services, co-sourcing agreement to host MHCD’s business- critical IT operations at 3t Systems’ data center in Greenwood Village. With a new adult recovery center in development and efforts underway to consolidate community clinics and increase youth and family services, MHCD management decided to focus on primary business functions and co-source secondary functions, such as IT to 3t Systems. By selecting a co-sourcing model, MHCD reduced the upfront capital expenditures needed for their IT plans without downsizing the scope of their IT refresh. During the tenure of the contract, this partnership will help MHCD achieve significant savings.

With 3t Systems’ Trusted Hosting managed services solution; 3t Systems will co- manage MHCD’s daily IT operations and work with the MHCD IT team to identify new opportunities to leverage IT to improve operations. Using a private cloud environment, 3t Systems will provide hosting, storage, servers, backups, monitoring, management, updates, and patch management for one set monthly fee. Additionally, this solution will provide SAS 70-grade access to data for their mobile workforce and care providers and on-demand IT scalability to meet MHCD’s continued growth.

In 2010, MHCD provided community-based mental health services to 15,400 adults, children and families, up from 13,600 in 2009. Currently, MHCD manages more than 35 service locations, including out-patient clinics and residential facilities. MHCD also has therapists in 18 Denver Public School programs. The new building being completed for MHCD will be Denver’s landmark center for mental health services and will become the organization’s flagship adult services clinic by consolidating four smaller clinics in the surrounding community. The efficiencies resulting from the partnership, will help MHCD in providing needed services and focusing on their core business. The organization estimates the new building will help close the service-to-needs gap.