New roles, responsibilities reflect company’s rapid growth in 2021
November 1, 2021 (AUSTIN, Texas) – XFERALL, the nation’s leading health care technology platform for hospitals, community mental health agencies, mobile crisis teams, and law enforcement to accelerate the inter-facility transfer of behavioral health and seriously ill and injured patients, experienced significant multi-state growth in 2021. In 2021, XFERALL expanded to partner with sending and receiving facilities in Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Arizona, Virginia, Colorado, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
To support this growth and position XFERALL for additional expansion, the company’s co-founders today announce new roles on its leadership team.
New leadership roles are:
· Amanda Brown, former vice president of healthcare solution sales with Avenica, has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president of sales
· Chris Keenan, previously executive vice president of customer success with Binary Fountain, has joined XFERALL in the new role of senior vice president, customer success
· Jennifer Witten, formerly vice president of government affairs and policy with the Maryland Hospital Association, serves as the company’s first senior vice president, government relations
“I’m delighted to welcome our new colleagues to XFERALL,” said Nathan Read, co-founder and CEO, XFERALL. “The pandemic shone a bright light on the need for more efficient processes to get patients to needed medical and behavioral health care much more quickly, and XFERALL has been the solution of choice for some of the country’s most forward-thinking hospitals and mental health teams. The new leadership positions reflect our team’s commitment to having a significant role in addressing the nation’s behavioral health care crisis and supporting hospitals with ongoing COVID-19 surge management.”
Launched in Texas in 2019, XFERALL partners with hospitals, community mental health agencies, mobile crisis teams, and law enforcement to reduce wait times for behavioral health and high-acuity medical care.
Entities using XFERALL have reduced the time from the initial transfer request from a sending facility to inpatient acceptance by another facility by 86 percent, meaning patients wait less time for essential treatment.
XFERALL is clinicians’ tool to:
· Request and accept patient transfers based on need and real-time care availability.
· Share clinical and demographic information to ensure appropriate transfer.
· Track transfer requests.
· Share post-hospitalization information with sending facility for timely follow-up care.