How a Rural Health System Achieved Complete Behavioral Health Coverage With Access TeleCare

2024-01-12T16:54:00-06:00November 28, 2023|

Kootenai Health, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, transitioned to a fully virtual care delivery model for its inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care services by partnering with Access TeleCare. The partnership was featured in a recent article in the Coeur d'Alene Press. Access [...]

Making Rural Hospitals Stand out as Regional Leaders in Healthcare: How two Hospitals are Transforming Their Communities’ Expectations and Improving Care

2024-01-12T16:54:21-06:00November 8, 2023|

Telemedicine allows rural hospitals like Piggott Health System to transform the community’s expectations, and other hospitals across the country are embracing telemedicine and accelerating new ideas of value in small market health care. One of those hospitals is Sullivan County Community [...]

Rural Hospitals Expanding Telemedicine to Strengthen Reliability as Community Care Centers

2024-01-12T16:54:48-06:00November 6, 2023|

For some small-town hospitals, access to specialists has become a new standard where the community has realized the value of a telemedicine investment. For Piggott Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in rural northeast Arkansas, telemedicine changes what is [...]

Access TeleCare’s TeleHospitalist Program in Action: Sullivan County Community Hospital

2024-01-25T16:00:50-06:00October 6, 2023|

When Sullivan County Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Indiana, added an Access TeleCare teleHospitalist service line, its impact was felt well beyond the walls of the hospital. From adding capacity for the hospital and clinics in the area to [...]

Focusing on Patient Transfers is not Just About Reducing Outbound Transfers

2023-09-15T18:57:24-05:00October 2, 2023|

When hospitals think about transferring patients, it’s usually about patients needing outbound transfer to a higher-level facility to have their specialty needs met. But, some hospitals are thinking about their capacity to accept inbound transfers from other hospitals in the region [...]

Going Beyond Physician Expertise to Deliver Telemedicine Excellence

2024-01-12T16:57:00-06:00September 15, 2023|

When hospitals look for alternatives to hiring or contracting with staff or full-time physicians because of recruitment and/or retention challenges and expenses, they typically prioritize the expertise of the physicians. They want to make sure the physicians they bring in [...]

Meet Your Community’s Expectations for Local, Specialty Coverage With Telemedicine

2024-01-12T16:57:09-06:00September 12, 2023|

When someone needs specialty care, the expectation is the local hospital will provide it, especially if the particular specialty has been available locally in the past. Patients don’t always understand that not every hospital has every specialty covered and that [...]

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