Client
Catholic Health Long Island
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Catholic Health Long Island
Catholic Health needed an enterprise Drupal platform that could support patient acquisition, service-line discovery, and high-volume content operations across a large healthcare system. Ralph served as lead developer while employed at Primacy, leading the Drupal implementation and solving for both frontend consistency and operational complexity.
An enterprise healthcare Drupal build with stronger discovery, search behavior, and long-term publishing stability.
Duration
Enterprise Drupal delivery at Primacy
Technology stack
- Bootstrap
- Cross-team QA
- Drupal
- Editorial workflows
- JavaScript
- PHP / Twig
- Redis
- Search API
- SMTP
- Webform
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- Industry
- Healthcare system
- Location
- Long Island, New York
- Scale
- Regional multi-hospital organization
- Engagement
- Lead developer role at Primacy
Project Context
Why this engagement mattered
Catholic Health serves patients across hospitals, providers, locations, and service lines, so the website had to do more than present content cleanly. It needed to support provider and location discovery, enterprise navigation, campaign flexibility, and dependable publishing for a large internal team.
Ralph served as lead developer while employed at Primacy, translating strategy and design into a Drupal build that could scale. The implementation included custom search and indexing enhancements, geocoded location behavior, migration normalization work, and a reusable template system that made a large healthcare footprint easier to manage.
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Before And After
What changed through the engagement
Before
- Patient-facing content had to serve many audiences across providers, facilities, and service lines.
- Search and discovery needed to work for real patient tasks, not just top-level navigation.
- Enterprise delivery required alignment across strategy, design, migration, development, and ongoing operations.
After
- ✓Reusable Drupal patterns improved consistency across high-volume healthcare content.
- ✓Provider, location, and service discovery gained stronger support through custom search and geolocation behavior.
- ✓The delivered frontend and content model gave internal teams a stronger base for long-term maintenance.
Implementation Approach
How the work moved from strategy into execution
Step 1
Implement Drupal templates and frontend patterns around patient journeys and action paths.
Step 2
Extend search and indexing behavior to better support provider and location discovery.
Step 3
Coordinate QA, launch readiness, and delivery details across a large stakeholder environment.
Measured Outcomes
Search API extensions and current-location geocoding improved patient findability.
Custom discovery tools
Normalization work helped large healthcare content sets behave more predictably in Drupal.
Migration readiness
The implementation was structured for scale, reuse, and steady operational updates.
Enterprise stability
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