Saturday, May 24, 2025
5/24/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Dubois DuBois Regional Medical Center dba, Penn Highlands Dubois (PHD) for the benefit of Penn Highlands Healthcare (PHH) is seeking telemedicine equipment to provide remote synchronous telehealth and telemedicine services for PHH through their Home Health agency, Practice Management and Community Paramedicine program. The plan is to utilize RPM in these three areas within the hospital system to serve and reach as many patients areas as possible in the large, rural servicing area. These services will cover eight hospital HUB/End-user sites to remote home-based locations throughout the target area. The eight Hub/End-users will transmit via two-way telemedicine communications between medical professionals and patients in their homes. Services are needed to provide medical services to rural patients that do not have the ability to attend a medical visit in the office, lack of transportation to get to a medical appointment, or require ongoing chronic disease management. Therefore, if not for telemedicine, the patient would possibly require hospitalization or readmissions. RPM/Telemedicine services are extremely valuable, can save lives and offers previously unavailable care particularly for those with ongoing sensitive health and chronic disease management needs, and are at-risk for COVID-19. Patients with chronic disease frequently seek emergency care and inpatient services and have a higher rate of readmission. RPM will allow for early detection and interventions before patients get to the point of needing emergency care or inpatient services. RPM also allows primary care providers to treat patients with ongoing chronic illnesses located in more remote areas. This provides better quality of care and continuity of care, and in most instances, it also reduces the costs of care. PHH is not only looking for a way to better serve patients today, but to make sure it's equipped to continue to take care of patients in the future. In summary, providing exceptional, quality care to the region cannot be done without health and clinical programs and service lines, improved access to care, and essential healthcare workers. The shortage of nurses, EMS and other healthcare positions affects patient outcomes daily. PHH has an obligation to the communities they serve to be the best choice in the region and improve upon this scarcity. The full spectrum of medical care is essential and needs to be accessible. Therefore, RPM equipment is vital to the community.
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