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Lawndale Christian Health Center
Strengthening analytics with Epic transition
Lawndale Christian Health Center, a nonprofit FQHC, moved from Athena to Epic to improve insight, efficiency and care. It had recently partnered with Wipfli to advance financial management with a successful Sage Intacct implementation. Together they carried the momentum forward to design a modern data architecture integrating legacy and Epic data. Now, leaders across operations and finance have the reporting and insights needed to improve outcomes.
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The Challenge
The transition to Epic provided Lawndale with richer EHR insights, faster analytics and a scalable architecture to optimize operations and better serve its clients. However, rebuilding the legacy data warehouse would wipe out deep institutional knowledge embedded in more than 1,000 custom reports and objects. Lawndale wanted to retain flexibility, and so it sought a collaborative partner with deep FQHC experience — one that would align its needs to modern options. It chose Wipfli.
The Solution
Wipfli created a plan aligned to Lawndale’s strong culture of ownership and self-sufficiency. The Wipfli team led architecture and design and skilled resource deployment, upskilling Lawndale’s team and tactical migration delivery. Lawndale focused on quality refinement, business logic and hands-on development. Christopher Dons, CFO at Lawndale, highlighted the immediate collaboration, “Wipfli’s team and our analytics team speak the same language. Wipfli showed a strong commitment to our relationship and our industry. It gave our team confidence that we had the right partner.” Wipfli designed the modernized data infrastructure to enable stronger analytics and reporting.
Wipfli worked to understand us and provide ideas specific to FQHCs. It wasn’t just another technical implementation. They augmented our resources by training our team on the latest tools and approaches.
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The results
Successful collaboration with Wipfli compressed the timeline by 50% and accelerated results, including:
- Sustainability and scalability: Wipfli helped upskill the team with modern data engineering and reporting capabilities, plus added automation.
- Best-practice data architecture: Lawndale gained modern analytics and a data warehouse within its Microsoft stack.
- Enhanced operational, financial and leadership insight: Wipfli helped Lawndale build organization-wide trust, laying the foundation for improved billing performance, patient services and staffing efficiency.
- Improved speed‑to‑value and decision-making: Lawndale has faster access to Epic data, refreshed Power BI reporting and better forecasting accuracy.
Lawndale’s new data foundation and projected impact continue to fuel modernization momentum.
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