Hospitals with dedicated inpatient psychiatric units face unique staffing challenges, from maintaining consistent psychiatrist coverage to reducing clinician burnout and turnover. Access TeleCare’s teleBehavioral health services are designed to enhance and augment teams — providing specialist support, expanding access, and ensuring sustainable behavioral health care delivery. Our teleBehavioral health services can also be a hospital’s dedicated care team, if in-person staffing is not feasible.
1. Eliminating the Need for Locum Tenens Staffing
For decades, hospitals have relied on locum tenens providers to fill staffing gaps, but this approach can have negative patient care impacts, inhibit continuity of care, and increase inefficiencies.
At Access TeleCare, we have a better solution. Our specialists are an integrated part of your care team, eliminating the disruptions and expenses associated with temporary providers. By embedding our clinicians within your system, we ensure seamless workflows, consistent patient care, and a stronger, more efficient behavioral health service line.
2. Addressing the Behavioral Health Clinician Shortage
Even with in-unit psychiatric care, hospitals struggle with provider shortages and high patient volumes. Recruiting and retaining full-time psychiatrists is increasingly difficult, leading to delays in admissions, extended inpatient stays, and limited access to specialty care.
Access TeleCare bridges this gap by providing highly trained, board-certified psychiatrists and clinicians who are available on-demand. Our teleBehavioral health solution allows hospitals to expand access to behavioral health care without the delays and limitations of traditional recruitment efforts, ensuring patients receive timely, expert care.
3. Reducing Turnover and Clinical Burnout
The intensity of inpatient psychiatric care can lead to clinician fatigue and high turnover, affecting staff morale and patient care quality. A recent study found that 93 percent of behavioral health workers have experienced burnout, with 63 percent reporting moderate to severe levels.
Access TeleCare’s teleBehavioral health services provide relief by supplementing your in-person teams, distributing workload more effectively, and ensuring 24/7 coverage. By integrating virtual behavioral health specialists, hospitals can reduce clinician fatigue, improve job satisfaction, and enhance the sustainability of behavioral health programs.
A Long-Term Solution for Sustainable Behavioral Health Care
Access TeleCare’s teleBehavioral Health service line is not a temporary fix, but a strategic, long-term solution to workforce challenges. By lessening locums dependency, addressing provider shortages, and reducing burnout, our teleBehavioral health teams enable hospitals to maintain consistent, high-quality behavioral health services.
Psychiatric units partnering with Access TeleCare gain more than just virtual providers; they gain a dedicated team committed to enhancing behavioral health care delivery across the care continuum.
📢 Learn more about how Access TeleCare can strengthen your hospital’s psychiatric services and optimize inpatient behavioral health care using teleBehavioral Health.
