Comcast Business announced that Elwyn, 5,000-employee human services nonprofit added Comcast Business Ethernet and voice services across its nationwide locations.
Elwyn operates a campus in Wilmington.
The network allows Elwyn to transition to electronic medical record and hosted cloud services, which will improve sharing of client and health information and centralize its human resource and payroll functions.
Founded in 1852, Elwyn is the oldest nonprofit of its kind, providing services for people with intellectual disabilities.
Elwyn also has a range of educational programs, including the largest approved private school in Pennsylvania, and behavioral health services for children and adults.
The internationally recognized organization serves 20,000 individuals at a variety of campus locations, community sites, schools, workplaces and individual residences across the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and California.
Elwyn enlisted the assistance of its longtime technology consultant, Chorus Communications to secure a flexible, cost-efficient, technology solution to centralize IT-based health and HR services.
Comcast Business provided Elwyn with a 14-site Ethernet Network Service (ENS) connecting the nonprofit’s 12 offices and two data centers.
Additionally, Elwyn implemented PRI Trunks, a hosted voice solution, across six of its locations in Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as business internet at more than 85 sites nationwide to allow its clients to get online from its residential locations.
“The time before and after our transition to Comcast Business was like night and day. We’ve quadrupled our network capacity but are still paying the same amount we were with our previous provider,” said Edwin Rodriguez, director of IT operations at Elwyn. “Our teams can access the information they need as if they were sitting next to each other rather than from the other side of the country, and our network can scale as we continue rolling out new technologies across our organization. But the real beauty of our Comcast Business solution is that it’s simple. It just works.”
Headquartered in Media, PA, Elwyn offers services in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and California; employs 5,000 people; and supports 20,000 individuals each year. For more information visit www.elwyn.org.
