I love professionals like Michael Smith.
Mike climbed the ladder from a CNA to housekeeper to nurse to RNAC to director of nursing to administrator and now to director of operations. He really knows this industry well and has an excellent understanding of home this complex puzzle comes together.
In this episode we discuss the effectiveness of a telehealth program in the nursing home setting.
A good telehealth program empowers the nurses to effectively communicate and actually show the on call physicians exactly what's going on in real-time.
The system is manned by hospitalists that are trained to provide remote care in the nursing home setting. This has dramatically reduced the rehospitalization rates for these facilities and the residents are being effectively treated in the SNFs.
