Local Company Given Boost By Proposed House Bill, Online Behavioral Health Training Company Saves Health Care Costs, Signs Two Major Contracts
A local San Diego company serve as a prime example of how online learning solutions can help save funds for health care organizations. If the new Clinton and Gingrich bill passes, Essential Learning will be a partner in the cause to create IT solutions to quickly manage the behavior health training for health care organizations and upgrade the continuing education for their staff.
SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) July 17, 2005 -- A local company has been energized by
Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s support of a
bill which proposes to provide grants to health care organizations that create
IT systems and networks.
Essential Learning, a provider of online
training services to over 90 behavioral health and human service organizations
around the country, has reported increased attention to their services since the
announcement of support from Gingrich and Client regarding bill HR 2234, and
today the company announced two new contracts, with ProtoCall Services, the
nation's leading provider of third-party clinical call center services and
Cenpatico Arizona, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority for Yuma, Gila,
Pinal and La Paz counties in Arizona.
Typical of contracts that may be
covered if the new bill passes, Essential Learning will provide a customized
Learning Management System that will allow ProtoCall to provide online
behavioral health training to their employees and efficiently manage their staff
training requirements, both online and classroom-based.
ProtoCall chose
Essential Learning as a new E-Learning partner in part because of the large
online library offered by Essential Learning, which features over 200 accredited
courses with 2-3 new courses added each month.
According to Bradley
Pendergraft, ProtoCall's Director of Clinical Operations, "ProtoCall's mission
is all about improving access to services, so providing our customers with
cost-effective, easy access to these training resources is yet another way to
help them fulfill their own mission."
Cenpatico will be providing the
Essential Learning system to its network of behavioral healthcare providers
throughout the four counties it serves. The system will allow the providers to
comply with training requirements set by the Arizona Department of
Health/Division of Behavioral Health Services and will assist Cenpatico in
standardizing and assuring the quality of training offered to
network.
Essential Learning's online services save healthcare
organizations costs associated with mandatory training and cuts travel costs and
time away from the job for employees. According to Essential Learning, there is
also research that suggests online learning is more effective method of learning
for adults.
"This is an exciting time for IT-based healthcare systems,
and our agreements with ProtoCall and Cenpatico to provide our learning
management system and online course library to assist them with employee
training is a perfect, practical example of how IT can cut health care costs "
said Susan Erskine, CEO of Essential Learning. “Aside from costs, our existing
customers will also benefit from the behavioral health training courses that we
will soon be developing in cooperation with ProtoCall's clinical
experts.”
For More Information:
ESSENTIAL LEARNING, founded in 2002,
is based in San Diego and has rapidly grown to become the largest provider of
online behavior health training services to human service organizations. The
mission of Essential Learning is to provide cost effective and customer-focused
E-learning to assist organizations to increase regulatory compliance, improve
staff performance, upgrade mental health training and maintain high quality
client services. Essential Learning provides a web-based Learning Management
System and courses for organizations that provide behavioral health,
developmental disability, child welfare and substance abuse services. Essential
learning also provides a web-based continuing education site, www.CEQuick.com, where clinical
professionals can purchase behavior health training courses to meet license
renewal requirements. For more information or a live demo, visit Essential
Learning's website, www.essentiallearning.com, or call 800-729-9198.
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