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Leading Healthcare Institutions Use Saba to Solve People Management Challenges
Kaiser Permanente, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, RehabCare Group, Complete Healthcare Resources and Other Leading Healthcare Institutions Have Deployed Saba’s People Management Solutions to Manage Compliance, and Develop and Retain Critical Healthcare Staff

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—September 18, 2007—Saba Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced its continued commitment to enable a people management strategy for the healthcare industry with its state-of-the-art people management platform. By implementing Saba’s people management solutions, healthcare providers are increasing patient safety and care, meeting complex compliance requirements, and enhancing staff development and succession management.

“A dedicated and knowledgeable workforce is crucial to meeting the challenges of the healthcare industry,” said Bobby Yazdani, CEO and chairman of Saba. “With Saba solutions, healthcare institutions have been able to develop and retain talented clinical personnel and key staff members as well as manage regulatory compliance. As a result, these healthcare institutions are able to deliver an improved quality of service at reduced costs.”

Kaiser Permanente is using Saba’s people management solutions to streamline compliance training and other strategic people processes. “Kaiser Permanente does everything it can to ensure our employees across the organization understand and meet complex compliance and business requirements," says Dwain Craddock SPHR, PMP, director of Kaiser Permanente's Enterprise Learning Services. "Because Kaiser Permanente is a large complex organization with more than 150,000 employees, we want to use a learning management solution that is robust, flexible and configurable to meet challenges ranging from compliance and basic training to leadership and patient safety. We are using Saba to deploy over 550,000 courses a year."

Allina Hospitals & Clinics is using Saba Learning to meet the lifelong health care needs of communities throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. "From classroom sessions to eLearning modules, Saba gives us the capabilities to deliver, track and assess skills surrounding the implementation and ongoing training of our customized electronic records system, Excellian." said Philip Aarness, director, Excellian Education with Allina Hospitals & Clinics.

According to RehabCare Group’s Senior Vice President Alan C. Sauber, Saba Learning helped his team overcome the challenge of providing critical learning to key staff members spread across RehabCare Group’s extensive collection of hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and nursing homes. “Saba is helping us not only retain staff but also train them for advancement,” said Sauber. “Because healthcare is an ever-changing work environment with new technologies and process improvements, Saba is a critical component in building the competencies of staff that will meet our needs.”

Complete Healthcare Resources implemented Saba Centra Knowledge Center to increase the quality and safety of patient care through more widely accessible learning and training associated with job profiles, certifications and compliance requirements for JCAHO, HIPAA, and OSHA. “Centra has allowed us to build a self-service learning environment for employees in our Skilled Nursing facilities,” says Beth Pedinoff, manager of Training and Implementations, Complete HealthCare Resources, Inc. “Centra provides our employees with the tools necessary to achieve individual educational requirements and personal learning goals, enhancing the quality of care given to residents.”

Saba’s suite of people management solutions, which are available either as OnDemand subscription service or licensed software, help a large number of high-profile healthcare organizations meet the complexity of healthcare workforce management. These healthcare organizations are now better equipped to increase the quality of their patient care and dramatically reduce costs through more widely accessible learning and training associated with job profiles, certifications and compliance requirements.

About Saba
Founded in 1997, Saba (NASDAQ: SABA) is the premier global provider of strategic human capital management (HCM) software and services. Saba’s people management solutions are used by more than 1,200 organizations and over 17 million end users worldwide. Saba’s solutions increase organizational performance by aligning workforce goals with organizational strategy; developing, managing and rewarding their people; and improving collaboration.

Saba product offerings address all aspects of strategic HCM and are available both on-premise and OnDemand (www.saba.com/products). To ensure long-term customer success, our global services capabilities and partnerships provide strategic consulting, comprehensive implementation services, and ongoing worldwide support.

Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel-Lucent, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, Caterpillar, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group, Kaiser Permanente, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank, Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotiabank, Singapore Ministry of Finance, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Tata Consultancy Services, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call +1-877-SABA-101 or +1-650-779-2791.

SABA, the Saba logo, Centra and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners

Media Contact:
Alissa Vasilevskis
Sr. Manager, Public Relations
Saba Software, Inc.
+1-650-581-2615
avasilevskis@saba.com

 

 

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