Video: How Ardent Health is Using Virtual Care to Solve Hospitals’ Most Pressing Challenges
Hospitals nationwide are facing an unprecedented convergence of challenges: increasing patient acuity, staff shortages, and intensifying financial pressure. But health systems like Ardent Health aren’t just reacting — they’re being proactive.
Hear Ardent Health’s chief medical officer, FJ Campbell, M.D., and Access TeleCare CEO Chris Gallagher, M.D., discuss how Ardent Health is leveraging virtual care to drive performance across clinical, operational, and financial metrics, and how Ardent Health is seeing real ROI from its virtual care strategy.
Webinar Key Points
Telemedicine helps hospitals reduce costs and address workforce shortages
Telemedicine helps hospitals reduce costs and address workforce shortages
By implementing virtual care models like tele-hospitalists, hospitals can minimize reliance on expensive locum tenens and improve coverage in hard-to-staff locations.Hospital-based Telemedicine Works for Both Rural & Urban Communities
Hospital-based Telemedicine Works for Both Rural & Urban Communities
Patients receive consistent, trusted care regardless of where they enter the healthcare system, helping hospitals fulfill their mission of delivering the best outcomes for every patient, every time.
Telemedicine improves collaboration, satisfaction, and patient experience.
Telemedicine improves collaboration, satisfaction, and patient experience.
Nurses report better alignment and understanding of care plans, while patients benefit from faster access to specialists and a more coordinated, compassionate care experience.Delivering measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals.
Delivering measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals.
Ardent Health’s telemedicine program has driven measurable gains in quality, efficiency, and overall system performance—demonstrating that virtual care can be a strategic driver of value across large health systems.
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