FAQ’s

Can you provide ventilator management to patients at your facility?

Do you need to transfer out Covid-19 patients?

Are you taking care of cardiac hypothermia patients or transferring? Our team were the pioneers who established Post Cardiac Arrest Induced Hypothermia Protocol in the state of Florida 14 years ago.

How can providing Telemedicine services help with accreditation? There are over 1,000 Critical Access Hospitals that are not joint commission accredited. Our ICU services can help a facility reach Leapfrog’s gold standard of care (only 47% of hospitals currently meet Leapfrog’s standards). This can dramatically improve your facility’s standing in obtaining JCAHO accreditation. Source: https://www.leapfroggroup.org/news-events/majority-us-hospitals-still-fail-implement-icu-policies-known-dramatically-lower-patient

How will these services help to improve our bottom line? Telemedicine services will add lucrative revenue streams.

Can Telemedicine actually improve your hospital ratings?  TMS is directly involved in 8 out of the 10 HCAHPS units of measure. Look at the 10 HCAHPS measures below and review TMS’s core principles (improving communication with providers, nurses, patients, and its impact on friends and family).

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Measures 

• ​Nurses communicate well 

• Doctors communicate well 

• Received help as soon as they wanted (Responsive) 

• Pain well controlled 

• Staff explain medicines before giving to patients 

• Room and bathroom are clean 

• Area around room is quiet at night 

• Given information about what to do during recovery at home 

• Overall hospital rating 

• Recommend hospital to friends and family (Recommend)