LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A caller assistance is making it easier to get wellness attraction successful Lynn County, without going to the Emergency Room.
The infirmary territory secured a assistance of much than fractional a cardinal dollars to further telehealth efforts.
Melanie Richburg with the Lynn County Hospital District says thousands of tele-medicine calls were taken past year, and that fig is expected to grow.
“3,100 telemedicine visits successful ‘21,” Richburg said. “We’re astir apt gonna propulsion to person astir 5,000.”
More than $580,000 national assistance dollars person made it imaginable to deploy 20 interactive telemedicine carts successful Lynn County and the surrounding area.
“We person to deliberation astir antithetic ways to beryllium disposable to our patients,” Richburg said. “We would person ne'er been capable to adjacent see doing this due to the fact that of the fiscal impact.”
Now those telemedicine carts are successful six schools, 2 jails, 3 nursing homes, and passim the infirmary strategy successful Tahoka.
Dr. Kim Billingsley says the caller exertion allows patients to beryllium served faster and without physically going to the hospital.
“They’re inactive proceeding bosom sounds and lung sounds, they’re looking successful throats they’re looking successful ears,” Billingsley said. “So we tin support them retired of the ER and not dispersed thing similar the flu oregon COVID oregon galore different things.”
USDA Rural Development State Director Lillian Salerno says this is the archetypal assistance of this benignant fixed successful Texas, portion of a ngo to marque wellness attraction accessible successful agrarian communities.
“For USDA this is what we’re expected to beryllium doing - we’re the national government,” Salerno said. “We person a ngo to marque definite that radical successful agrarian communities person the aforesaid entree arsenic folks successful large cities.”
Richburg says a imaginable adjacent measurement is having distant units wrong ambulances to supply an other acceptable of eyes and a lifeline to paramedics portion connected scene.
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