Admit more patients, streamline care operations, and support on-site teams with 24/7, timely access to teleHospitalist experts who manage all aspects of inpatient care. Unlike traditional locum tenens solutions, Access TeleCare’s hospitalists function like full members of your on-site care teams, integrating and working within your team’s existing workflows and providing a level of clinical excellence, collaborative engagement, and familiarity and consistency that short-term solutions fail to deliver.
Having reliable, high-quality hospitalist coverage ensures that care is delivered in a timely manner and patients aren’t left waiting without care. With 24/7 hospitalist coverage via telemedicine, hospitals can stabilize their revenue streams with scalable coverage for surges in patient volume, the ability to leverage swing beds, and the ability to respond quickly to incoming patient transfers.
Moreover, a strong bench of qualified hospitalists provides support to revenue generating specialties to help improve financial performance. For example, teleHospitalists can manage patients pre and post heart catheterizations so that Cardiologists can remain in the cath lab to do more catheterizations and stay focused on performing revenue generating work.
Access TeleCare hospitalist telemedicine programs:
- Improve ED throughput and efficiency: Enhance your emergency department’s efficiency and admit more patients with round-the-clock hospitalist coverage, including nighttime and surge coverage. Our expert hospitalists assess patients and get them to the appropriate level of care quickly, reducing the strain on your ED teams and creating significant financial advantages by increasing throughput and reducing wait times.
- Reduce unnecessary transfers: Access TeleCare hospitalists leverage their clinical experience and full integration with on-site teams to identify patients who can receive treatment locally. This reduces unnecessary transfers and the care delays those transfers can cause, keeping more patients in their home community for care and enhancing patient satisfaction with their local providers.
- Reduce physician and staff burnout: Hospitalists create additional capacity to keep on-site care teams from becoming overburdened. Additionally, our hospitalists remain available at any time for consultations and real-time collaboration with your care teams, providing consistent support and guidance to further reduce burnout. See how our hospitalist programs reduce burnout for on-site physicians, nurses, and staff.
- Improve case mix index: By reducing unnecessary transfers and freeing up on-site specialists to manage complex or unusual cases, hospitalist telemedicine improves the hospital’s CMI. For one rural Texas hospital, our hospitalist program boosted its CMI by more than 20 percent.
- Ensure cost-effective surge coverage: Telemedicine is the ideal solution for surge coverage, creating capacity as soon as it’s needed and reducing costs when it’s not. Whether it’s for a single shift, a weekend, a month, or longer, telemedicine can facilitate the rapid deployment of hospitalists, allowing for more flexibility and cost-effective, sustainable solutions to staffing challenges.
“Our collaborative approach and fully integrated teleHospitalists make it as easy as possible for on-site teams to jump right into utilizing telemedicine for their patients. Our programs are about delivering excellent care, yes, but also about building sustainable working relationships with local care teams and building trust with patients.” – Saurin Patel, M.D., Access TeleCare’s chief of hospitalist medicine and emerging service lines
Contact us to learn more about our hospitalist telemedicine programs.
