McKnight's September 3, 2024
Libby Care Center of Cascadia in Libby, MT, didn’t necessarily have a wide choice of psychiatrists to turn to when leaders decided to focus on lowering antipsychotic use among residents.
So CEO Rachel Toland and her team turned to telehealth, a solution that has helped to bring in resources more quickly, manage behaviors without unnecessary medications, improve a key quality indicator and keep residents in their local community.
“It really allowed us to be able to manage patients or residents that we in the past maybe wouldn’t be able to consider simply because getting those services would have been difficult,” Toland...