Customer Case Study
How Christ Community Health Built a Secure Google Workspace Intranet
A HIPAA-conscious healthcare environment
Background:
A non-profit healthcare provider needed a secure, searchable intranet inside Google Workspace. Steegle.One delivered a custom Google Sites intranet, with Steegle People powering the live staff directory.
Key Factors:
Client: Christ Community Health
Location: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Sector: Healthcare / Non-Profit
Solution: Steegle One + Google Sites
Business Challenge:
A growing healthcare team needed one trusted place to find people and information
Christ Community Health is a community-focused healthcare provider based in Memphis, Tennessee, with doctors, nurses, specialists, administrators, and support staff working across multiple clinic locations. As the organisation expanded, internal communication became harder to manage. Staff needed a faster, more reliable way to find colleagues, understand who did what, and reach the right person at the right time.The existing staff directory was static and often out of date. Locating the right specialist or rerouting an urgent internal query could take multiple phone calls, stale information, and guesswork — time a healthcare team simply cannot afford to waste.
But CCH did not just need a better directory. They needed a secure intranet that could become a trusted starting point for staff communication, resources, and people search — all inside Google Workspace.Privacy and governance were central to the project. As a US healthcare organisation, CCH needed a HIPAA-conscious approach that avoided unnecessary movement of employee or operational data into third-party systems. Any solution that replicated directory data onto an external server introduced avoidable compliance, security, and reputational risk. And as a non-profit, CCH also needed a solution that did not require enterprise-level licensing fees.
Steegle.One gives healthcare organisations a secure intranet inside Google Workspace — helping reduce HIPAA-related complexity by avoiding unnecessary third-party data replication.
Solution Implemented:
Steegle.One: a secure Google Workspace intranet with live people search built in
Steegle partnered with CCH to design and build a custom Steegle.One intranet in Google Sites, with Steegle People embedded as the live staff directory and org chart experience. The key insight was simple: CCH already owned the right infrastructure. Google Workspace already held their directory data. The goal wasn’t to replicate it — it was to make it searchable, visual, and instantly usable.
Data Never Leaves Workspace
Steegle People queries CCH’s own Google Directory live. No data replication, no third-party servers, no export risk.
Visual Org Charts
Complex medical and administrative hierarchies rendered visually — staff understand reporting structures at a glance.
Always Up To Date
The directory syncs natively with Google Workspace — new starters and leavers update automatically, with zero admin overhead.
Instant People Search
Search across all staff in real time — by name, department, role, or location — from a single intranet page.
Because Steegle People is built on top of Google Workspace rather than alongside it, CCH gained a genuinely modern directory without the financial or operational burden of a purpose-built third-party system. Steegle’s not-for-profit pricing also ensured the project sat comfortably within a healthcare organisation’s constrained budget envelope.
Results
A secure intranet employees could use every day
Faster connections
Staff can now locate colleagues instantly across departments, roles, and clinic locations. The time previously lost to misdirected calls, stale spreadsheets, and organisational guesswork has been eliminated.Zero data risk
No employee data leaves Google Workspace. CCH retains full ownership and control of their directory at all times — with no third-party servers, no synchronisation jobs, and no exposure surface to manage.
Budget-friendly delivery
Not-for-profit pricing kept total cost of ownership well within a non-profit’s constraints, without sacrificing the quality or depth of the implementation.
Organisation-wide clarity
Visual org charts help staff understand the full team structure across departments and locations — particularly valuable for new starters and cross-departmental collaboration.
In their own words:
“What stood out most with Steegle was how they solved our directory problem without ever touching our data. Steegle.One People gave our staff a fast, searchable directory that pulls directly from our own Google Workspace — nothing is copied, nothing leaves our environment. For a healthcare organisation, that matters enormously. Steegle knows everything Google, and they delivered exactly what we needed: a custom intranet that was up quickly, priced fairly for a non-profit, and backed by a team that was genuinely responsive despite the distance. We will absolutely work with them again.”
Brittany McClure
Communications Manager, Christ Community Health
Frequently Asked Questions
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Steegle specialises in secure Google Workspace intranets for organisations where privacy, governance, and ease of use matter. For healthcare providers, Steegle.One helps keep costs down by avoiding unnecessary data replication into third-party systems and by using the Google Workspace environment many teams already trust.
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Yes. Steegle.One can help reduce HIPAA-related complexity because it does not require a separate employee-data platform for the staff directory. The intranet is built in Google Sites, and Steegle People uses Google Workspace as the source of truth. That means fewer systems to secure, fewer data flows to assess, and less administrative overhead.
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This is a Steegle.One intranet built in Google Sites. Steegle People is the directory and org chart capability inside the intranet, giving staff a fast way to find colleagues directly from the same internal hub.
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Christ Community Health is based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with staff working across multiple clinic locations.
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No. Steegle People queries the organisation’s own Google Workspace Directory. Employee data does not need to be copied into a separate third-party employee database.
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Yes. Steegle.One is a strong fit for HIPAA-conscious healthcare environments because it works inside Google Workspace and avoids unnecessary data replication. The case study should say “HIPAA-conscious” rather than “HIPAA-compliant” unless you have a formal compliance assessment for the full setup.
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CCH already used Google Workspace. Steegle.One allowed them to build a secure, branded intranet in Google Sites while extending the tools they already trusted, instead of adding another external platform for staff to learn and manage.
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Yes. Steegle offers pricing designed to make Steegle.One accessible for non-profit and healthcare organisations that need a modern intranet without enterprise-level platform costs.
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Yes. The staff directory can be the starting point, but the Steegle.One intranet can grow to include news, policies, resources, Google Drive content, calendars, onboarding information, and other internal communication too
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