How Wood County Hospital Streamlined Budgeting and Increased Efficiency with Martus

About the Organization

For more than 70 years, Wood County Hospital has provided healthcare to Bowling Green, Ohio and the surrounding region, offering services that span cancer care, orthopedics, weight loss surgery, and women's health.

Before adopting Martus, the hospital's finance team relied on a manual, duplicative budgeting process: building the budget, then re-entering that same data by hand into Sage Intacct. The extra step slowed the team down and left little room for error-free reporting.

Since implementing Martus, Wood County Hospital has traded that manual re-entry for a connected, real-time process that gives the finance team faster answers and more confidence in the numbers.

The Challenge

Wood County Hospital's finance team was stuck duplicating work: building out the budget, then manually transferring that data into Sage Intacct. As Associate VP of Finance Richard Bame shared, the biggest headache was "the process of completing the budget and then having to re-enter the information into Intacct again." The team wanted a more automated approach — one that would cut down on manual entry and increase efficiency across the budgeting process organization-wide.

Why Martus

For Richard, the deciding factor was Martus's connectivity with Sage Intacct. He described it as "the biggest selling point for us," noting that the integration made setting up a new budget year — and moving the approved budget into Intacct — seamless. That direct, reliable data flow between systems made Martus the clear choice over other options the team considered.

The Solution

Martus gave Wood County Hospital a connected system that eliminated the manual handoff between budgeting and accounting. Key elements of the solution include:

• Seamless, real-time data integration with Sage Intacct
• Intuitive budget preparation tools that reduce manual data entry
• Comprehensive reporting capabilities for a clear view of financial health at any given time
• Secure, user-friendly access that supports collaboration across the finance team

The Result

Since adopting Martus, Wood County Hospital's finance team has traded scavenger hunts for clarity — Richard describes the improvement in financial visibility as "a lot clearer — no more data scavenger hunts." With real-time data synchronization removing uncertainty around data accuracy, the team can now make informed financial decisions with confidence.

• Saving an estimated 10-25 hours per month on budgeting tasks
• Time redirected toward patient care and organizational priorities
• Elimination of manual re-entry between budget creation and Sage Intacct