Brant Community Healthcare System Selects Halogen Talent Management

Ontario hospitals leverage Halogen's best practices in employee performance management to help address Accreditation Canada requirements
OTTAWA, ON – June 9, 2008 – Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS)
has selected Halogen Software's award-winning eAppraisal™ Healthcare
solution to streamline workforce performance, address accreditation
requirements, and provide  employees with more time to focus on delivering
the best possible patient care. Halogen, the leading provider of employee
performance and talent management software offers eAppraisal Healthcare as
part of a complete best practices employee performance and talent
management suite, a solution built for the unique requirements of the
healthcare industry.

Halogen's leading talent management suite for healthcare assists in evaluating
the competencies, quality of care and service that employees provide. This
helps healthcare organizations to accurately measure their clinical and
operational performance — giving them a clear picture of their strengths and
weaknesses. Hospitals that participate in accreditation programs benefit from
thorough assessments that lead to action plans for improving every aspect of
the health care they deliver.

Comprised of  the  Brantford General  site, a 305 bed acute care facility with
over  1400 employees; and the Willett site, a multi-service health care centre
with urgent care, diagnostic imaging, occupational and physiotherapy
services, BCHS is fully accredited with Accreditation Canada (formerly
CCHSA).  Accreditation involves a detailed audit of an organization's human
resources procedures, in particular employee appraisals and performance
management, with the goal of increasing the quality of patient services and
safety.

"In an effort to align employee performance with organizational strategic
goals we selected a talent management system that would provide:
competency-based assessments, identification of learning needs and a
developmental plan, multi-rater feedback, as well as a tool to assist with
effective succession planning," reports Jyoti Kapur, Organizational
Development Consultant, Brant Community Health System.

"Our project team is diverse, enthusiastic, experienced, and creative.
Together with an excellent product we are determined to be successful in our
implementation," states Erin Olszowy, Human Resources Analyst, Brant
Community Health System.

BCHS is one of a number of key Canadian healthcare accounts Halogen has
secured including Mount Sinai, The Hospital for Sick Children, Mamawetan
Churchill River Health, and Hawkesbury & District General Hospital. Award-
winning Halogen eAppraisal™ Healthcare is also exclusively endorsed by the
American Hospital Association and is already delivering impressive results in
over 400 healthcare facilities across North America.

About Halogen Software

A recognized industry leader with over 1000 customers worldwide, Halogen
Software makes powerful, simple-to-use and affordable employee
performance and talent management applications. The company offers a
complete suite of web-based products that automate, simplify and integrate
employee performance management, 360/multi-rater feedback, compensation
management, succession planning and learning management. Halogen's
offering makes HR best-practices accessible to companies of all sizes and its
healthcare, financial services and professional services specific suites meet
the unique needs of these industries. Halogen is consistently recognized by
the industry and its customers for its exceptional implementation and support
services, and has won multiple awards for its corporate leadership and
product innovation, including HR Technology Product of the Year. For more
information, visit www.halogensoftware.com.


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