THE CUSTOMER

How an academic medical center created one front door for employees

Industry

Healthcare

Company size

10,000+

Solutions

Intranet
Employee communications
Content creation & publishing

THE CHALLENGE

Connecting a workforce spread across roles, departments, and location

Reaching employees consistently was a challenge for this large academic medical center. Its workforce spans clinical care, research, higher education, and corporate services — including a Level 1 trauma center, a children’s hospital, a cancer center, a four-college university, and a 2,000-person corporate services organization.

That complexity made communications highly fragmented. Messages had to reach clinicians, researchers, faculty, students, frontline teams, and shift-based employees across departments and service lines in a highly regulated environment.

Email was overused, important information was easy to miss, and mass communications struggled to engage employees. The existing intranet had also faded into the background, becoming a dense collection of apps, links, and service portals employees typically visited only when they needed something specific.

THE SOLUTION

A personalized communications hub built around how employees work

The organization partnered with Appspace to create one communications and resource hub for employees — making it easier to find information, stay connected, and navigate everyday work.

Role- and function-based communities, including Leadership, Nursing, Learning, Wellness, and Culture, help deliver more relevant content to different employee groups.

  • Recognition in the flow of work — Public praise, formal awards, and team-specific programs now appear alongside everyday news and updates.
  • One place for HR resources — AskHR gives employees self-service access to benefits, tuition programs, and direct HR support.
  • More engaging storytelling — Long-form features on leadership, sustainability, and culture replace generic announcements and can reach tens of thousands of views.
  • Shared moments, more visible — Events like Match Day and the annual engagement survey are built into the platform, helping drive participation and track engagement.

THE RESULTS

A digital front door employees actually use

The new hub is now the default homepage across the organization’s computers — making it a natural starting point for the workday. Engagement has grown with it:

  • 8.1K monthly unique users
  • 2.5M post views
  • 2,000+ posts published
  • 20K reactions

The organization is now building on that foundation with more personalized content based on role, location, and day-to-day needs, along with AI capabilities to help employees find and exchange information faster.

Why Appspace?

Improve communication across your workforce.

Create spaces employees want to be in.

Manage everything from one platform.