From the patients we serve to our hospital and clinical partners, the value and power of telemedicine is clear. Telemedicine equips virtually any hospital or clinic in the country with the resources, expertise, and capacity to deliver specialty care directly to their patients.
Highlighting the value of virtual care is the focus of this year’s American Telemedicine Association’s Telehealth Awareness Week. With a diverse and experienced team of more than 700 providers and well over 6 million patient encounters thus far, the value of virtual care is on full display across our more than 2,200 active telemedicine programs.
“Our programs go beyond helping hospitals and clinics treat more patients and increase access to complex and high-acuity specialty care,” said Access TeleCare CEO Chris Gallagher, M.D. “We’re helping our partners solve staffing and access to care challenges for good, to expand services instead of cutting them, and to identify opportunities to rethink what is possible for their communities.”
Increasing Access by Expanding Services
When rural hospitals implement telemedicine, they often take incremental steps to deploy multiple service lines based on community needs and strategic opportunities. In Piggott, Arkansas, the local hospital experienced the power of telemedicine during COVID, and after experiencing a positive response from patients, physicians, and nurses, they plotted a course for additional service lines in a commitment to their community. Today, they have four telemedicine programs with Access TeleCare.
Solving Hospital Staffing Challenges
See how Access TeleCare enables hospitals of any size to solve staffing challenges and specialist shortages for good.
Creating Sustainable Models of Care
A stand-alone, rural behavioral health hospital faced the threat of closure after the individual serving as both medical director and psychiatrist announced their retirement. Access TeleCare launched a fully virtual program in less than three months to ensure the hospital maintained full coverage without service interruptions.
