CHRISTUS Health
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Kaiya Enables 6-Week Merger and Acquisition at CHRISTUS Health

CHRISTUS Health leveraged Kaiya to compress a 12-18 month acquisition into just 6 weeks, creating a seamless welcome experience for new staff.

Kaiya Enables 6-Week Merger and Acquisition at CHRISTUS Health

6
week integration vs. 12-18 months

Challenge: An Accelerated Timeline for Healthcare Acquisition

CHRISTUS Health, a healthcare system that regularly acquires other facilities, typically has 12-18 months to prepare organizations and people during an acquisition. However, when a bankruptcy situation arose with a potential acquisition, their timeline compressed dramatically to just 6 weeks. 

In this urgent scenario, CHRISTUS Health needed to: 

  • Onboard their own people to handle the transition 
  • Prepare systems for integration 
  • Train and welcome new employees from the acquired facility 

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Kaiya helped me create an initial change plan for the sponsors, for the people leaders and helped integrate some things into the communication and training plan that other teams were working on.

— Lisa Reynolds, Vice President of Change Management, CHRISTUS Health

Solution: Kaiya's AI-Powered Change Expertise

  • CHRISTUS Health turned to Kaiya, Prosci's AI change management assistant, to navigate this compressed timeline. Kaiya provided: 

  • Rapid change plan creation for sponsors and people leaders 
  • Strategic guidance for communication and training integration 
  • Customized welcome center preparation for new employee orientation 

Results: Change Done Right, Even Under Pressure

With Kaiya's support, CHRISTUS Health achieved remarkable results: 

  • Successfully completed the entire acquisition integration in just 6 weeks instead of the typical 12-18 months 
  • Created comprehensive slide decks and orientation materials in a fraction of the normal time 
  • Delivered a seamless welcome experience for new employees, who reported feeling "impressed with how warm they were welcomed" 
  • Maintained high levels of organization and clear communication despite the compressed timeline 

The Change Management Difference 

CHRISTUS Health’s experience demonstrates how AI-powered change management transforms crisis into opportunity. When unexpected circumstances demanded rapid adaptation, Kaiya became the crucial difference between struggling through change and mastering it. 

As Lisa Reynolds, Vice President of Change Management at CHRISTUS Health, notes: "Kaiya has been a game changer" for their organization, with multilingual capabilities that transcend boundaries to deliver consistent change success across their international operations. 

By leveraging Kaiya's ability to generate tailored change plans, communication strategies, and training materials in minutes rather than days, CHRISTUS Health turned what could have been a chaotic transition into a showcase of change done right. 

About Kaiya

Kaiya is the only AI-powered change management assistant built on Prosci's 25+ years of research and methodology. It helps organizations scale their change capabilities, save significant time on planning and implementation, and focus more energy on the human side of change. With Kaiya, change practitioners report transforming 2-hour tasks into 10-minute accomplishments. 

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