Your Full Partner in Behavioral Health Services

We partner with behavioral health hospitals for telemedicine-driven solutions

Access TeleCare provides behavioral health hospitals with 24/7/365 professional psychiatric coverage, Medical Directorship, Rounding, and on-call coverage. Access TeleCare can provide full or partial coverage as needed to ensure your inpatient unit runs smoothly and your patients receive the high-quality behavioral health care they need.

Using Telemedicine to Overcome Behavioral Health Hospital Challenges

Access TeleCare helps behavioral health hospitals care for more patients locally, reducing transfers and improving care with timely access to behavioral health specialists.

Key Benefits of Telemedicine for Behavioral Health Hospitals

Reduce Turnover and Clinical Burnout

Alleviate the burden and stress of mental health patient care from your on-site staff by leveraging Access TeleCare’s clinicians via telehealth.

Medical Directorship With 24/7/365 On-Call Coverage

Access TeleCare can become your entire behavioral health department or augment your existing BH services with a long-term team of providers and the bench strength to cover and grow your units.

Daily Rounding

Access TeleCare’s psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) provide daily rounding and work within your operational workflows, providing all needed documentation within your EMR for efficient, collaborative care.

Drive Revenue

Our programs maximize your census, while improving quality of care with timely access, and streamlining the admissions process with 24/7/365 rapid response call coverage.

Eliminate Locums

Access TeleCare provides a permanent solution for your behavioral health clinician staffing, helping reduce costs associated with locums, as well as, enabling your hospital to scale up to meet demand and growth.

Operational Efficiency

Access TeleCare adapts our care delivery to integrate with your existing workflows, and our providers work within your EMR and collaborate with your care teams. We supply any technology needed, and we can handle all billing.

How Telemedicine Works

Patient Admission

Patient cleared and accepted on unit via admission from local area ED. Access TeleCare clinician, either a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) or physician, performs initial assessment and medication evaluation with 24/7/365 rapid response coverage, streamlining the process.

Daily Rounding

Patient is seen daily by Access TeleCare PMHNP during rounding and as need via on-call coverage. Access TeleCare MD rounds once or twice per week as well.

Establish Care Plan

Access TeleCare provider establishes and executes a care plan including medication management and psychotherapy as needed.

Clinical Collaboration

Access TeleCare clinician documents all visit notes in your EMR system including any medication recommendations. Access TeleCare MD providers supervisory medical directorship and holds weekly Interdisciplinary Team Meetings with PMHNPs.

Discharge & Billing

Access TeleCare clinician will complete discharge summaries within 24-48 hours. Access TeleCare platform collects needed patient info from hospital EMR and clinician notes and passes to RCM for billing.

HEAR FROM OUR PARTNERS

Fully virtual behavioral health care is possible.

Physicians Behavioral Hospital partnered with Access TeleCare to create a fully telemedicine model of care. Now, all professional psychiatric care offered at PBH is done virtually.

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