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Nightingale Notes has been designed to serve the varied needs of our extensive user base. We serve agencies ranging from a handful of users to dozens of users. We have gone to great lengths to build a system offering simplicity in learning and use, but sophistication where desired through the use of customized screens. Most of our Nightingale Notes users are public health agencies.

“With Nightingale Notes, we are able to keep track of all of the billing data for our patients; a task that was challenging for our small start-up school-based health center. By having an electronic charting system, staff are better able to track health history data, ensuring everyone knows the same critical information without sifting through pages of charts. I especially appreciate the technical support Champ provided to helpⁱ us configure Nightingale Notes to fit our scale. As our client load increases, I am confident Nightingale Notes will keep up with our demand.”

Sherrie Ford
Coordinator for School-Based Health Centers Columbia Health District-Public Health Authority
Columbia County, Oregon

Nightingale Notes Public Health Features:

Client registry
Omaha System charting
Electronic batch billing
Medications
100 percent time tracking
Standard and custom reportsⁱ

Services our Public Health Clients Provide with Nightingale Notes:

Maternal Child Health
Family Planning
Domestic Violence
Infectious Conditions
STDs/STIs
Substance Abuse
Behavioral Health
Human Services
Aging Disability Resource Center (ADRC)
School-based health clinics

If you would like additonal information regarding the above programsⁱ, please check out the Case Studies we have available in Nightingale Notes.

Types of agencies using Nightingale Notes

Nightingale Notes in use in many states

Meaningful Use

Champ is dedicated to evolving our applications to meet the needs of our clients, including all new state and federal regulations that impact our customers. We continue to monitor the Meaningful Use requirements. Nightingale Notes already satisfies several Meaningful Use requirements and will have new features every year. Champ will periodically re-evaluate the need for certification based on criteria that directly impact our current and potential clients. We will continue to maintain an open dialog with our clients on how Meaningful Use impacts their business. For more information about Meaningful Use and Federally Qualified Health Centers, please visit the Rural Assistance Center website.

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"Billing off of NN is really easy! We love that any validation errors are a link and when you click on that link it
takes you directly to the field that needs to be corrected. It makes correcting any billing issues super fast
and easy.

Champ has also been so open to our comments and requests for future enhancements. Each time an
update comes out we notice some changes that we had "wished" for. Each update makes NN an even
better product."

Greta Siegel
Douglas County Public Health

"Nightingale Notes is really terrific and has so much future potential. Our staff has been creating custom
tabs like "crazy". We love that we can take our current paper forms and turn them into an electronic version
andcollect data on a client all in 1 program!! Moving from tab to tab took a little while for staff to get used to
but now they just love it and find it so quick and efficient."

Greta Siegel
Douglas County Public Health

"With Nightingale Notes, we are able to keep track of all of the billing data for our patients; a task that was
challenging for our small start-up school-based health center. By having an electronic charting system,
staff are better able to track health history data, ensuring everyone knows the same critical information
without sifting through pages of charts. I especially appreciate the technical support CHAMP provided to
helpⁱ us configure Nightingale Notes to fit our scale. As our client load increases, I am confident Nightingale
Notes will keep up with our demand."

Sherrie Ford
Coordinator for School-Based Health Centers
Columbia Health District-Public Health Authority
Columbia County, Oregon

"I and our staff promote NN every chance we get. We are very pleased with the staff from CHAMPS and
their administration."

Barb Peterson ADRC-N Regional Coordinator