National Rural Health Day celebrates the “Power of Rural” and highlights the essential role rural health care providers play in their community.
XFERALL first launched in Texas, home to more rural hospitals than almost any other state. Our work in West Texas with acute medical hospitals, behavioral health facilities, law enforcement, and the local mental health authority reduced area wait times for inpatient psychiatric treatment by more than 80 percent and was featured on KFDA – News Channel 10 and in an Amarillo Globe-News op ed.
Across Texas, XFERALL saved rural hospitals more than $3.6 million in just 12 months by reducing length of stay in their emergency departments for patients needing behavioral health treatment. Using XFERALL, our rural health partners more quickly identified available care for their patients and saved nearly 14,500 hours in ED wait time.
As rural communities dealt with surge after surge of COVID-19 patients in 2020 and 2021, their ability to transfer patients was seriously hampered by dwindling bed capacity across the state. XFERALL helped. The Texas hospitals using XFERALL to transfer patients with medical conditions between August 2020 and July 2021 received responses from participating hospitals indicating available bed capacity in less than 1 minute, 18 seconds and secured acceptance for patient transfers in less than 20 minutes.
With our mobile app, clinicians needing to transfer a patient, whether because their facility has no available beds or because their facility cannot provide the needed level or type of care, can cast a wide net to identify hospitals that do have bed and clinical capacity and can make a single request for patient transfer to multiple hospitals. Receiving hospitals with available clinically appropriate capacity respond on the app, and the entire patient transfer process is automated. There is no need for phone calls or faxes or clinician downtime.
The results:
Seriously ill/injured patients or patients needing behavioral health treatment get the care they need more quickly.
ED overcrowding is relieved.
Clinician time is protected for patient care, not burdensome administrative tasks.
With XFERALL, the “Power of Rural” is even stronger. See how we can help your facility. Schedule a demo today.