Psychiatric Management Services for Acute Care Hospitals
Telecare contracts with hospitals that seek solutions for managing the day to day operations and strategies for expanding their acute psychiatric programs.
Capitalizing on Telecare's 40+ years of experience serving individuals with mental impairments, hospitals are able to provide their patients with much-needed, clinically effective 24-hour psychiatric inpatient support, while addressing business and management challenges efficiently.
Hospitals must balance multiple priorities when operating their acute psychiatric services: the need to provide clinically sound services, the need to have a financially viable business unit, and the need for effective management in achieving these goals.
Acute psychiatric programs are also subject to common fiscal and operational challenges:
- Loss of volume
- Challenges in payor mix
- Clinical deficiencies
- Operate efficiently without closing or losing acute beds to serve the local community
Telecare Corporation contracts with hospitals to offer management of acute care psychiatric services for adults and geriatric patient populations.
Telecare Corporation opened its first acute psychiatric facility in 1965 and has continued to grow in the inpatient setting, coordinating and operating a full continuum of care that enables an inpatient program to continue to be successful in a competitive and/or managed care environment.
LAUNCHING A NEW ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC PROGRAM
Telecare can work with a hospital to start a new program where there are few psychiatric resources. This can entail helping your hospital open a new inpatient psychiatric unit or facility.
Telecare can prepare a needs assessment, marketplace and competitor review, financial analysis, regulatory requirement overview, and meeting with medical staff and potential referral sources to describe the benefits of such a new service. Telecare staff will be with you to guide, assist, and execute to ensure a successful program opening. Telecare can provide the key management staff to operate the program, following the opening of the new psychiatric service.
ENHANCING AN EXISTING ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC PROGRAM
A hospital that has an existing psychiatric service that is in need of program enhancement can be helped by Telecare Corporation.
Telecare can do a programmatic assessment by reviewing operational and financial data of the service, interviewing program staff, hospital administration, physicians, referral sources, and case managers. After a careful review of all of the data, including onsite interviews, Telecare will prepare a formal and tailored strategy and the tactics to accomplish the outlined goals.
Telecare can provide the key staff onsite to achieve the goals, and not just propose a plan.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Pat Doyle, Vice President of Sales, Hospital ContractingIf you desire to learn more about Telecare's assessments or resources, please contact Pat Doyle, Vice President, Sales, Hospital Contracting at pdoyle@telecarecorp.com or 800/977-7471, X510.