We have extensive experience within a hospital setting providing psychiatric consult services in addition to full inpatient psychiatric patient management. Our skilled psychiatrists provide Telepsychiatry to rural inpatient hospitals and continue to serve as the lone psychiatrists on multiple inpatient units. Our experience and team approach has helped to increase admissions while decreasing time spent in the hospital. Our team approach helps to save over three hours per day the time that is typical with in-house physicians. By deploying telepsychiatry, hospitals can benefit from improved productivity and profitability by:

• Increasing the amount of admissions by being available when you need our team
• Decreasing the number of days patients remain in the hospital (average Medicaid Days = 4.1)
• Increasing communication between staff members to ensure highest quality of patient care
• Decrease number of re-admits into the hospital
• Our psychiatrists and team provide the following services within the hospital setting:
• Quick access to Crisis Telepsychiatry (typically appointments can be made with a 1 hour turnaround time)
• Urgent Services (consults with various specialties to assist with treatment recommendations)
• Inpatient daily rounds

With the increasing shortage of psychiatrists, often the ones most in need are the most impacted. Our team helps to bridge that gap by providing telepsychiatry services to settings including group homes, rural private practices, and those with chronic mental illness being served by a community PSR or equivalent team. Whether your need is great or small our team will work hard to work with your schedule and ensure that your patients receive the highest quality of care.ngs.

Telepsychiatry is most useful in underserved areas with limited access to child and adolescent psychiatrists, such as rural areas and inner cities. In each of these locations access and follow through with care are limited and utilizing technology to provide easy access greatly improves care and enhances the child’s functioning. Because teleconferencing can provide opportunities for participation of several individuals involved with the child (including family, mental health professionals, school personnel and social service workers) the possibility of enhancing collaboration among those involved with the child and thus amplifying treatment and response is great.

Our team has extensive experience working within the Community Service Board model. We have worked with a number of electronic medical records as well as e-prescribe systems leading to seamless transitions.

Knowing how important CSB’s are to the community, our psychiatrists provide the highest quality of care and work closely with team members.

With our team of providers, your facility can have consistent, remote providers serving a regular caseload of consumers. Whether you need us for one day or full-time coverage we have the staff to fill your current coverage needs.

Many community based organizations find that utilizing remote psychiatric services enhances the services provided to patients and also saves time, energy, money, and effort in hiring/retaining providers.

We also have qualified nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are supervised by one or more of our psychiatrists.

This is often a method chosen for coverage by CSB’s who desire to remain cost conscious due to budgetary financial constraints.

Members have a difficult time finding a psychiatrist in-network and must travel long distance or go to the ER to receive mental health care. This can prove to be extremely costly driving health care costs up and causing employees to miss work.

• Insurance Providers looking for a mental health value-added service at a reduced cost
• Employers that want to give their employees an added mental health benefit.
• Businesses that can’t afford to provide health care coverage to their employees.

UBHS provides locum tenens coverage to fill in for staff psychiatrists for short term or long term assignments at your hospital, community service board, rural clinic, or other locations. We can mobilize quickly and allow a seamless handoff of patient load from resident physician to our team. Utilizing our locums coverage is quicker, easier, and less expensive than your typical staffing firm. We do not charge a retainer fee and if you opt to keep our team on full-time, you will not have to pay additional add on fees; rather our team continues to see your patients without interruption. Call today and leave the patient care to us.