Behavioral Health Emergency Departments2024-09-23T14:48:53-05:00

Virtual Behavioral Health Services
for Emergency Departments

Professional psychiatric coverage for behavioral health consultations with rapid response times.

Access TeleCare provides emergency departments with 24/7/365 professional psychiatric coverage for behavioral health consultations.

Key Benefits of Telemedicine for Emergency Departments

Rapid Response Times

Rapid Response Times

Psychiatric consults with guaranteed service-level agreement within 2 hours.

Higher Patient Throughput

Higher Patient Throughput

Disposition patients with behavioral health needs quickly and move them to the next/appropriate care setting, opening beds for others who need them and preventing unnecessary boarding.

Increase Access to Behavioral Health Care

Increase Access to Behavioral Health Care

Timely access to behavioral health care leads to better health outcomes overall for patients.

Reduce Turnover and Clinical Burnout

Reduce Turnover and Clinical Burnout

Alleviate the burden and stress of 24/7 psychiatric patient care from your on-site staff leveraging Access TeleCare’s clinicians.

Timely Access to Virtual Behavioral Health Experts

We guarantee rapid response times, helping to quickly move psychiatric patients to the next/appropriate care setting preventing unnecessary boarding. Access TeleCare works within your EMR to document and deploy behavioral health services in close collaboration with your care teams.

We expand behavioral health access to meet your emergency departments growing mental health needs with efficient, high-quality care delivery.

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Access TeleCare Helps Hospitals Overcome Their Toughest Challenges

In this webinar, two industry veterans and innovators explored firsthand experiences and successful strategies in deploying telemedicine solutions to overcome challenges such as access to care, timeliness of care, and workforce issues, with a special focus on behavioral health and neurology programs.

Accelerate Emergency Throughput With Telemedicine

With Access TeleCare, hospitals have the ability to more quickly move patients through their emergency departments to the advantage of patients and emergency department care teams.

Improving Behavioral Health Access for Children & Adolescents

Dr. John Kenny, Access TeleCare’s chief of psychiatry, discusses the imperative for addressing children’s mental health needs and how we helped one 10-year child get an accurate diagnosis of OCD that was causing intrusive thoughts of harming another person.

ROI of Virtual Behavioral Health Services in the Hospital Emergency Department and Med-Surg Units

Read the whitepaper to discover how Access TeleCare’s behavioral health programs clear emergency department backlogs and reduce unnecessary costs.

Access TeleCare’s teleBehavioral Health programs help hospitals achieve significant results:

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Achieved annual ROI of
281 percent

Reduced LOS for behavioral health patients by
70 percent

Avoided annualized boarding costs of more than
$1.7 million

Reduced transfer rates to
9 percent

Increased revenue by 80 percent

Decreased outbound neurology transfers by 60 percent

Increased Medicare neurology inpatient admissions 79 percent

See how TeleBehavioral Health helped one hospital reduce length of stay and increase ROI by 281%.

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How Telemedicine Works

The ROI of Virtual Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department

Allen Hospital was facing an increasingly difficult challenge caring for behavioral health patients in its 21-bed inpatient behavioral health unit, which had just one full-time psychiatrist. See how Access TeleCare’s three-pronged approach alleviated the hospital’s staffing challenges and produced significant results for the hospital and its patients.

CaroMont Regional Medical Center Improves Outcomes and Metrics with Virtual Behavioral Health

Access TeleCare helped CaroMont Regional Medical Center, a 476-bed acute care hospital in North Carolina, see patients presenting to the ED with behavioral health needs quickly, reducing transfers, ED boarding times, and length of stay.

Virtual Behavioral Health Across the Continuum of Care

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Inpatient Behavioral Health Units

Permanently solve your quality and professional staffing challenges, while optimizing your census.

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Behavioral Health Hospitals

24/7/365 professional psychiatric coverage, Medical Directorship, rounding, and on-call coverage.

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Med-Surg & ICU

Consultation-Liaison psychiatric care for patients with complex medical conditions and comorbidities.

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Outpatient Behavioral Health

Virtual behavioral health care in any setting from IOPs/PHPs to primary care and community-based clinics and home health.

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