As healthcare in rural areas continues to evolve, and critical access hospitals are facing threats of closing their doors, TeleMedicine is playing a key role in improving access to care. More and more critical access hospitals are shutting down due to financial reasons and TeleMedicine Technology can solve that problem. TeleHealth Solution’s virtual Hospitalists can drive volume, improve quality of care, and reduce costs by reducing transfers to outside hospitals. All of this can be done at a fraction of the cost of an in-house Hospitalists. Many rural hospitals do not have nocturnal physicians in-house which leads to no nocturnal admissions or increased transfers to outside hospitals when a patient is experiencing acute changes and requires a higher level of care.

Our virtual Hospitalists can provide the same level of care as an in-house physician at a fraction of the cost. We can provide nocturnal coverage to provide medical care for rural hospitals. We can also provide mid-level supervision or cross coverage while saving your critical access hospital money. With our services, you will be able to keep revenue in-house as we decrease transfers to outside hospitals and have the ability to admit more medically complex patients.

TeleHealth Solution uses the most up-to-date TeleMedicine Technology. Our carts are equipped with the tools our virtual Hospitalists need to properly evaluate and treat a patient. Our TeleMedicine cart includes a high definition camera, 12-lead EKG, a virtual stethoscope, a tympanic thermometer, and a pulse oximeter. All of our equipment is provided to you at no cost. All you need to provide is basic Wi-Fi and a telephone line.

If a patient is admitted in to the Emergency Room, our virtual Hospitalists will communicate directly with your ER doctors. Our virtual Hospitalist will discuss the patient’s medical status over the phone and will perform a virtual medical evaluation and will take over care for that patient during their on-call shift.

If a patient is already present in your critical access hospital and experiences an acute medical change, our physicians are on call and available to provide treatment in real time. With our equipment and your nursing staff, we can evaluate the patient, order additional labs and tests, and form a treatment plan. Our same nocturnal physicians will be available the remainder of the shift until the patient is handed off to your daytime in-house physician or one of our daytime virtual physicians and will communicate the plan of care. Please see our step-by-step interaction here for more information.

Our virtual Hospitalists are capable of managing acutely ill patients with complex medical histories just like your in-house rural doctors. We can order additional labs, tests, and medication as needed. With the use of diagnostic tools, we are able to diagnose a patient and form an appropriate plan of care without transferring them to another hospital. We can manage a multitude of scenarios depending on the rural hospitals capabilities.

TeleHealth Solution is compromised of hospitalist physicians with support from cardiologists, pulmonologist, psychologists, neurologists, and more. Using our telemedicine platform, we can bring our specialists to your hospital, or if you prefer, your own in-network specialists can use the technology to care for your patients. These physicians can remotely diagnose, as well as treat CAH patients quicker and more cost effectively.

Your nursing staff can call TeleHealth Solution’s virtual Hospitalists as many times as needed during our on-call shifts. If a patient is in distress and requires care, we are available. We do not limit the number of calls per shift or per patient, and can be accessed as long as it takes to provide top-notch medical care to your patients.

Rural doctors are typically overburdened, as they are scarce, but very valuable to your community. Rural doctors are often found in clinics, area nursing homes, and critical access hospitals all in the same day and we want to relieve them of that burden. We can provide nocturnal solutions or daytime solutions for your critical access hospital so your clinical rural doctors can focus on the outpatient setting. We also know how difficult it is to hire new doctors if they know they will be over burdened with call. Allow TeleHealth Solution to provide nocturnal coverage or daytime call, cross coverage, or mid-level supervision so your in-house physicians do not have to.

Our doctors are relieving the burden of diagnosing and treating patients over the phone during off hours when your rural doctors cannot be onsite. This improves your attending physician’s quality of life and improves access to care for your patients, resulting in healthier and happier patients and doctors.

Nurses also love having TeleHealth Solution virtual Hospitalists on call. We fully train your nursing staff and teach them how to use our TeleMedicine Technology to help provide the best medical care for your patients. The nursing staff is more confident and more comfortable working when they know they have a skilled virtual Hospitalists just a phone call away.

Patients and their families are typically thrilled to find out that their area critical access hospital offers access to TeleHealth Solution’s physicians. They find comfort knowing they can be evaluated and treated, with nocturnal coverage and cross coverage included, in a nearby hospital without having to be transferred to a hospital further away from home. Our physicians can communicate with the patient and their family, and discuss the plan of care. Our physicians can also have end-of-life conversations with patient’s families if desired.

Having our skilled TeleHospitalists is just as effective as having an in-house provider. We can run code blues virtually, as we work through your nursing staff and our TeleMedicine Technology equipment.

TeleHealth Solution will provide your critical access hospital with skilled virtual Hospitalists at a fraction of the cost of an in-house physician. We have the ability to provide the same level of care, will lower your transfer rate to outside facilities, and have the ability to admit patients during all hours, including nocturnal coverage and cross coverage, which will grow your census. All of these combined will keep revenue in your rural hospitals.