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From Survival to Success: How TelePsychiatry Can Be a Game-Changer for Behavioral Health Hospitals

2024-06-28T14:26:19-05:00December 6, 2023|

Behavioral health hospitals play a crucial role in providing specialized care for individuals with mental health disorders. However, these hospitals are facing significant challenges, particularly in terms of staffing psychiatric care professionals. The shortage of qualified psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners has [...]

How a Rural Health System Achieved Complete Behavioral Health Coverage With Access TeleCare

2024-06-28T14:54:52-05:00November 28, 2023|

Kootenai Health, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, transitioned to a fully virtual care delivery model for its inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care services by partnering with Access TeleCare. The partnership was featured in a recent article in the Coeur d'Alene Press. [...]

Nurse Practitioner Week 2023

2024-07-01T11:18:39-05:00November 13, 2023|

November 12 – 18 is Nurse Practitioner Week, a time to recognize the dedication and expertise that advanced nurse practitioners bring to patient care at hospitals and clinics across the country. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are involved in virtually every aspect of patient [...]

Making Rural Hospitals Stand out as Regional Leaders in Healthcare: How two Hospitals are Transforming Their Communities’ Expectations and Improving Care

2024-08-07T11:09:35-05:00November 8, 2023|

Telemedicine allows rural hospitals like Piggott Health System to transform the community’s expectations, and other hospitals across the country are embracing telemedicine and accelerating new ideas of value in small market health care. One of those hospitals is Sullivan County Community [...]

Telemedicine Offers the Resources to Meet the Community’s Care Needs

2024-08-07T11:11:26-05:00November 7, 2023|

When local care teams lack specialty medical resources, delays in care from transferring a patient increase risk and put patient outcomes in the balance, but it can also be a demoralizing experience with travel to far away, unfamiliar care facilities. [...]

Rural Hospitals Expanding Telemedicine to Strengthen Reliability as Community Care Centers

2024-08-07T11:11:01-05:00November 6, 2023|

For some small-town hospitals, access to specialists has become a new standard where the community has realized the value of a telemedicine investment. For Piggott Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in rural northeast Arkansas, telemedicine changes what is [...]

The Benefits of an Access TeleCare teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine Program

2024-09-03T11:37:01-05:00November 6, 2023|

Access TeleCare’s teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine specialists work with hospitals, outpatient maternity providers, and imaging centers to support patients with high-risk pregnancies and improve ultrasound interpretation and fetal anomaly detection. Access TeleCare teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine programs: Increase local deliveries: Through immediate access to board-certified maternal-fetal [...]

The Joint Commission Awards Access TeleCare Re-Accreditation for Telehealth Services

2024-07-01T11:18:40-05:00October 31, 2023|

Access TeleCare again receives The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Ambulatory/Telehealth Health Care Accreditation for telehealth services by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal® is a symbol of quality that reflects a health care organization’s commitment to [...]

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