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La Clinica de La Raza
organization in one of Oakland largest non profit medical centers, is
dedicated to providing healthcare to low-income communities in East Oakland
and surrounding communities in Alameda Country, Pittsburg in East Contra
Costa County and Vallejo in Solano County. LaClinica
de La Raza services provided include medical, dental, eye, mental health,
health education, case management, and Nutrition. LaClinica de La Raza
herein referred to as La Clinica was established in 1971, and currently
operates out of eleven clinic-owned buildings and seven leased spaces Some
of these operations will be consolidated in a new facility being constructed
within two miles of the Fruitvale Campus in East Oakland and should be
completed by end of 2003. Those who receive
care at La Clínica de La Raza are primarily low income, people of color. The
majority of La Clínica's clients are women and children. Over 100,000
clients have been served with more than 1 million visits provided. More than
10,000 healthy babies have been brought into this world with the help of La
Clínica de La Raza.
La Clinica realized and recognized there
excessive growth rate would not support their current network or
infrastructure and contracted WirelessTEK do in complete network analysis
and audit of their facilities and develop a new scalable and reliable
network design. Eliminating their serial non routed networks and replacing
them with a routed and wireless network to support La Clinica AS 400 and
Windows servers for patient billing, Medical records, Pharmacy and data
services. Install internet access, e-mail and data services for all
locations. WirelessTEK design and installed all the fiber and CAT-5 cabling
connecting network equipment and users to the network. Senior network
engineer Dean Birdsall came up with the network hardware design, IP address
scheme, routing scheme and security policy to support LaClinica current
network and future networking needs. WirelessTEK installed WatchGuard
FireBox II firewalls and Cisco PIXs firewall, Cisco 2600/3600 routers and
Cisco Aireonet bridges and wireless access point’s equipment to connect all
the remote location and other clinics that need access to data services. All
work had to be done with little to no network interruptions since some of
the clinics work late in the evenings and network outage would hindrance La
Clinica users and patients.
One of La Clinica major concerns was security La Clinica lets other none La
Clinica own clinics us their main server for cretin application such as
medial billing WirelessTEK setup security policy and access-list to
accomplish these security issues. La Clinica is in the process of building a
new medical facility and WirelessTEK is working very closely with La Clinica
to bring the new center into their network in a cost-conscious and timely
manner.
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