Telehealth Grantee Directory

Network Partners:

• Thundermist Health Center
• Physicians from local and Providence based hospitals
• AIDS Project Rhode Island
• Rhode Island Community Food Bank

Project Purpose:

Develop a holistic approach to overall maintenance and well being for persons living with HIV/AIDS by engaging clients in healthy lifestyle behaviors. The program uses health education, exercise training, nutritional counseling, and alternative therapies to enhance medical services and maximize gains made through consistent medical care and treatment adherence.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

N=162: 75 percent of clients participated in some aspect of the Agape Wellness program 44 percent of consumers engaged in exercise training, 41 percent nutrition services, 31 percent education programs, 52 percent meals, 9 percent support groups, 28 percent social activities. Survey: 90 percent of clients (always or usually) receive the social & emotional support they need since enrollment in the Wellness programs. 62 percent visited their ID doctors 3 or more times in the past 9 months.

Service Area:

Northern Rhode Island.

Services Provided:

Personal exercise training, nutritional counseling, mental health and substance abuse counseling, food pantry, meals, educational forums, cooking classes, massage therapy, support groups, computer classes, social activities.

Equipment:

Weight training and exercise equipment; portable whirlpool; kitchen equipment.

Transmission:

Not Applicable.

Network Partners:

There are no project partners for this project.

Project Purpose:

VNA of Care New England Point of Care Technology allows all home health staff involved in a single patient's care to use a notebook computer to carry an electronic copy of the patient's record into their home and then send updated information back to a common database, making it available in real-time to other field staff involved in their care.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

The project met its goals by ensuring that all staff have timely access to patient data, assisting with the delivery of cost effective care, ensuring that patient needs are met in a timely and accurate manner, minimizing the chance for potential error and enhancing overall patient safety.

Service Area:

Our service area is the entire state of Rhode Island.

Services Provided:

VNA of Care New England provides a comprehensive range of home healthcare services.

Equipment:

Fujitsu B-series Touch screen Notebook computers

Transmission:

Not applicable

Network Partners:

There are no project partners for this project.

Project Purpose:

Increasing Access to Home Health through Telehealth-Phase II focused on increasing the diagnoses treated with telehealth where benefits similar to those that have been proven in the CHF population were realized for both the patient and VNACNE.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

The project met its goals by enhancing patient care in all Rhode Island communities by providing telehealth services wherever appropriate, enhancing access to home health care by providing enhanced care remote monitoring for patients with chosen diagnoses through the use of telehealth and reducing costs for chronically ill patients.

Service Area:

Our service area is the entire state of Rhode Island.

Services Provided:

VNA of Care New England provides a comprehensive range of home healthcare services.

Equipment:

McKesson Health Buddy Telehealth units.

Transmission:

Transmission of patient data is through the Health Buddy appliance internal modem (33,600 bps) via POTS line. Data is transmitted and housed through a web portal that is hosted by McKesson.

Network Partners:

8 spokes in the network are part of the applicant organization and RHIO Project: RI Dept. of Health, EHRRI, RIHCA, RI Quality Institute.
Hospitals: Landmark Medical Center, Kent Hospital, South County Hospital

Project Purpose:

To install and implement an electronic health record across all eight medical sites in the Thundermist Health Center system. The EHR will be purchased through EHRRI, a Value Added Reseller owned by four health care organizations, including Thundermist Health Center. EHRRI's mission is to promote statewide physician adoption of electronic health records by offering a single HER product and to subsidize the sale and service of the product to its members. The Thundermist HER will enhance quality of care at Thundermist, provide data to the RI RHIO and connect sites with community hospitals.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

• Improved Clinical Quality as measured by HEDIS, HRSA and internal data audits.
• Improved Patient Satisfaction as measured by the HRSA PEERS survey.
• Improved Clinical Compliance as measured by JCAHO standards.
• Lower costs as measured by staffing analysis CBR and internal audits of accounts receivable.
• Lower adverse incidents as measured by incident reports.
• Higher productivity as measured by RVU weekly and monthly reports by provider/site.

Service Area:

Providence County, Kent County and Washington County, serving 8 HPSAs (medical, dental and mental health).

Services Provided:

Thundermist provides primary medical care (pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology and family practice), HIV specialty care, dental services and behavioral health services, and pharmaceutical services. EHR is to be implemented in 2006 at all sites. Patient portal planned for 2007.

Equipment:

A single network serving all sites with the EHR and Practice Management Software equipment includes 25 tablet PCs, routers, T-1 lines, servers and PCs .

Transmission:

Virtual Ethernet Wan, Broadband and T-1 connections.