Case Study: St. Francis Hospital doubles IT productivity and blocks 70% of inbound spam with Mimecast

With Mimecast, St. Francis Hospital Moves Email Management to the Cloud

St. Francis Hospital, a 376‑bed nonprofit in Columbus, Georgia with over 2,000 employees, was suffering chronic email outages and performance problems after outgrowing a server‑based Antigen AS/AV system. The legacy solution couldn’t scale, left users swamped with spam, had no usable archiving (often requiring up to two business days to retrieve older messages), and led to oversized backups, delivery delays and interruptions that threatened administrative workflows and patient care.

The hospital moved email management to Mimecast’s cloud platform for anti‑spam/virus, archiving, continuity and automated encryption. Since the switch, 70% of inbound mail is blocked at the gateway, there have been no email outages or virus incidents, users can retrieve archived messages in minutes, on‑site email storage and delivery delays are reduced, HIPAA/PCI compliance is aided by automatic encryption, and the two‑person IT team reports roughly double the productivity.

St. Francis Hospital

Eddie Windom

Network Administrator