Overview
Grants Overview
ILLINOIS, Sangamon County
Illinois Developmental Disabilities Telehealth Network and Services: A Program Dedicated to Optimizing Health and Support of Community Living
Illinois Department of Human Services
TNGP FY 06-09
Illinois Department of Human Services,
Division of Developmental Disabilities,
Bureau of Clinical Services
319 East Madison St., Suite 2A
Springfield, IL 62701-1035
Rod Curtis, MD
Arden R. Gregory RN, DNSc
Ph: 217-782-9449
Fax: 217-782-0012
Email: Arden.Gregory@illinois.gov
Rod.Curtis@illinois.gov
Network Partners:
State Operated Developmental Centers: Choate Developmental Center, Howe Developmental Center, Murray Developmental Center, Shapiro Developmental Center; Community Providers of Developmental Disabilities Providers: Achievement Unlimited, Inc., Charleston Transitional Facility, Kreider Services, Inc., Specialized Training for Adult RehabiliTation (START).
Project Purpose:
Develop a comprehensive Telehealth network that will enable clinical assistance to providers of community-based services for people with intellectual disabilities. Services provided through the Telehealth program will include clinical case reviews, health care related educational venues and administrative support.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
1) Improve efficiency and efficacy of care delivery and support to intellectually disabled individuals who experience behavioral and medical exacerbations. 2) Reduce admissions to State Operated Developmental Centers, ERs and psychiatric facilities. 3) Enhance professional clinical management.
Service Area:
Underserved rural counties in the Northwest, Central West & East, and Southern Illinois.
Services Provided:
Provide clinical assistance to individuals with intellectual disabilities residing in community-supported agencies in rural areas throughout Illinois; educational venues for direct care staff, physicians, medical students, nurses, and other professionals serving people with intellectual disabilities.
Equipment:
8 Polycom 7000s (IP/ISDN) (1/site), DSU/CSU Interface Card, Ethernet Router, 32" Monitor w/ S-Video inputs
Transmission:
Dedicated T1 connection; Illinois Century Network Backbone
ILLINOIS, Cook County
Moving Toward Portability: Uniform Core Licensure Standards for Nursing
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
TLGP FY 06-09
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCBSN)
111 East Wacker Drive, Suite 2900
Chicago, IL 60601
www.ncsbn.org
Kristin Ann Hellquist, MS
Ph: 312-525-3665
Fax: 312-279-1032
Email: kellquist@khellquist.org
Network Partners:
NCSBN has partnerships with states that contract with it for portability purposes, the contract advisory panel and other external stakeholders related to portability.
Project Purpose:
Assist states in implementing the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) and criminal background checks (CBC). Remove regulatory barriers while increasing access to safe nursing care through licensure portability. Enhance licensure portability for nurses and thereby increase telehealth practice.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
Improve the quality, timeliness, and immediate accessibility of criminal history and related records. Demonstrate an increase in the number of nurses who are involved in telehealth through research, utilization of survey methodology. Decrease barriers associated with nurse licensure portability.
Service Area:
Boards of nursing who have not yet implemented CBCs or the NLC are eligible to receive funds.
Services Provided:
Assist Boards of Nursing in meeting NCSBN uniform core requirements. Provide development and data analysis of financial tools to standardize costs associated with implementing the NLCs and CBCs. Create and disseminate two white papers (one on exploring portability of CBCs and the other on exploring nursing union resistance to the NLC).
Equipment:
Not applicable.
Transmission:
Not applicable.
ILLINOIS, Sangamon County
Neonatal Telehealth Project in Rural Illinois Located at the Perinatal Center
Saint John's Hospital
CMP FY 05
Perinatal Center, St. John's Hospital
415 North 9th Street, Room 4W16
Springfield, IL 62769
www.st-johns.org
Dennis Crouse MD, PhD, FAAP/ Cherie Miller-Kling
Ph: 217-544-6464 extension 30460
Fax: 217-757-6844
Email: dcrouse@siumed.edu; cherie.miller-kling@st-johns.org
Network Partners:
Blessing Hospital, 11/7/05; Carle Foundation Hospital; Crawford Memorial Hospital, 3/17/06; Dr. John Warner Hospital, 4/4/06; Ferrell Hospital 4/4/06; Hillsboro Area Hospital, 3/30/06; Mason District Hospital, 3/17/06; Richland Memorial Hospital, 11/4/05; St. Vincent Memorial Hospital, 11/7/05; Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital, 3/21/06.
Project Purpose:
Develop Neonatal and Perinatal Telehealth services for the patients in rural Illinois. Specifically, educational programs in newborn resuscitation, newborn examination and evaluation, common newborn problems, maternal evaluation, emergency deliveries, and maternal evaluation will be developed and provided.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
Physicians, nurses, and technicians will be able to provide emergency services to high-risk mothers and newborns reducing morbidity and mortality. Unnecessary travel for high-risk mothers will be negated. Continuing medical educational (CME) activities will be provided to rural physicians, nurses, and technicians.
Service Area:
The service area for this project will coincide with the South Central Perinatal Center region as specified by the Illinois Department of Public Health Regional Perinatal Health Care guidelines. This area is rural and is mostly underserved as evidenced by 45 MSU areas. Sites: St. John's Hospital, Sangamon County.
Services Provided:
The services provided will be specifically for Neonatal and Perinatal services and education.
Equipment:
Two Polycom videoconferencing systems will be employed at St. John's Hospital.
Transmission:
The transmission will occur over T1 connections using IP addresses.
ILLINOIS, Sangamon County
Downstate Regional Telehealth Project
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
CMP FY 01
SIU Telehealth Networks & Programs
913 N. Rutledge St, Ste 1253
PO Box 19682
Springfield, IL 62794-9682
www.siumed.edu/telehealth
Deborah E. Seale
Ph: 217-545-7830
Fax: 217-545-7839
Email: dseale@siumed.edu
Network Partners:
Participating sites include: Critical access and small rural hospitals, Area Health Education Centers, family practice clinics, universities and colleges, rural mental health hospitals, large urban hospitals, Veteran Affairs Hospital, home health agency, state and community agencies. Content providers include: universities, state agencies, hospitals, associations and consortia.
Project Purpose:
Develop community-institutional partnerships to strengthen local health care capacity through the use of advanced technologies. Provide medical education and training to 52 rural hospitals - including 32 critical access hospitals - using videoconferencing, satellite broadcasts and web streaming. Provide health information to patients and information support to practitioners through online resources. Provide direct patient care and medical consultation using store-and-forward and videoconference technologies. Ensure the delivery of appropriate, affordable services through program evaluation and outcomes research.
Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:
Appropriate, seamless, affordable service as measured by participant (patient, learner, educator, practitioner) and support staff (technical and coordinator) surveys. Technical quality including videoconference audio/video, store-and-forward and other audio/visual tools. Level of support as measured by training delivered, protocols developed, and user error. Improved access as measured bynumber of sites, participants, programs, services delivered as well as duration. Evaluate project development timeline.
Service Area:
Ninety-six counties in downstate Illinois including 4 frontier counties, 70 rural non-metropolitan counties; 16 partial rural metropolitan counties; 93 Primary Care HPSAs; 52 Mental HPSAs with 11 designations pending; 83 Dental HPSAs; 24 whole county MUA/MUPs and 53 partial county MUA/MUPs.
Services Provided:
Educational programs included Grand Rounds for internal medicine, psychiatry, neurology, and otolaryngology, Burdick Rural Interdisciplinary Network (IRIN), patient safety, terrorism preparedness and response, and grant writing. Clinical telehealth services include dermatology, neurology, and psychiatry.
Equipment:
ISDN PRI and IP videoconferencing, medical and distance education peripherals, multipoint control bridge, satellite, online chat, multi-media streaming and push technologies.
Transmission:
T1 circuits with ISDN or IP, state IP backbone, state ISDN backbone, and ISDN dialup services connecting at 128 to 384 as appropriate for need.
