See how specialty telemedicine can help your hospital address workforce shortages, reduce transfers, and care for more patients close to home.
Rural Health Transformation
Supporting Strong Rural Communities
Major goals of the Rural Health Transformation Program include improving healthcare access, quality, and outcomes by transforming the healthcare delivery ecosystem. That’s what Access TeleCare has done for more than 20 years.
Access TeleCare builds specialty telemedicine programs specifically designed for rural hospitals to:
what access telecare delivers
Clinical Excellence in Acute Care Telemedicine
Specialty Coverage
24/7
On-demand access to board-certified specialists across all major inpatient and outpatient service lines.
programs Built for Rural Hospitals
Custom programs that align with your staffing model, workflows, patient demand, and community needs.
Care that stays Local
Support for more higher-acuity patients so more care can happen close to home.
A Long-Term
Partner
We build, scale, and sustain programs, not one-size-fits-all deployments.
Specialty Coverage
24/7
On-demand access to board-certified specialists across all major inpatient and outpatient service lines.
programs Built for Rural Hospitals
Custom programs that align with your staffing model, workflows, patient demand, and community needs.
Care that stays Local
Support for more higher-acuity patients so more care can happen close to home.
A Long-Term
Partner
We build, scale, and sustain programs, not one-size-fits-all deployments.
Endorsed by TORCH
We maintain the longstanding designation of endorsed partner by TORCH Management Services.
Why it Matters
“The Rural Health Transformation Program is a once-in-a-generation investment in rural healthcare. Hospitals have an unprecedented opportunity to expand their services, care for more patients, and build a solid foundation for financial stability and operational longevity. Access TeleCare has done just that for more than 20 years and is rural hospitals’ reliable, proven partner in achieving the ambitious, but essential goals, laid out in the RHTP.”
Joshua deTillio
Chief Executive Officer
Access TeleCare
Transforming small-town care with specialty telemedicine
- Reduced transfers of critically ill patients
- Strengthened the hospital’s reputation in the community
- Began with teleCritical care and with its success, added inpatient teleInfectious disease and cardiology and outpatient teleNeurology
- Supported its on-site physicians, APPs, and nurses
A hospital model of the future with eight telemedicine specialty service lines, all provided through telemedicine
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Began with teleCritical Care and added numerous other service lines to meet local specialty care needs Faster access to specialty care
- Achieved and maintained the Joint Commission’s Primary Stroke Center and Acute Stroke Ready Hospital certifications with teleNeurology
- High satisfaction from on-site nurses, therapists, and allied health professionals.
CAH becomes regional leader with teleHospitalist service
- Kept more patients in-house for hospitalizations
- Reduced burnout among community family medicine physicians
- Preserved outpatient primary care capacity
- Delighted nurses and other on-site clinicians with ease of use and responsiveness of the hospitalists
