Healthcare Finance News February 10, 2025
The mobile program closes care gaps in rural areas and patients give it high marks.
Monadnock Community Hospital (MCH) in Peterborough, New Hampshire has enacted a mobile healthcare program to close care gaps in nearby rural communities.
The Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program was launched by the 25-bed critical access hospital in 2020, and the team now includes two board-certified community paramedics who provide care in patients’ homes, plus a project manager, dispatcher and medical director.
Patients give the MIH program high marks for quality of care, promptness, ease of scheduling, and respect and compassion shown by the providers, officials said.
WHAT’S THE IMPACT
The MCH community paramedics collect all types of laboratory specimens, place Foley catheters, address wound care,...
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