Our services include, but are not limited to:
- General, critical and complex respiratory care services
- Neonatal, pediatric and adult critical care
- Patient education and coordinating discharge planning
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Newborn transport deliveries
Respiratory Therapist- Rural Staffing Initiative (Critical Access Hospital Focused)
The demand for Respiratory Care services continues to grow, making it difficult to maintain staffing without exorbitant travel contracts. PSI has a team of highly trained and Regionalized Respiratory Therapists that could be deployed when needed by Ascension Health.
The Objective
- Need #1: Provide consistent and streamlined RT staffing to Critical Assess locations.
- Need #2: Maximize CMS reimbursement capture- specific to Respiratory Therapist DRGs.
- Need #3: Increase patient satisfaction and safety.
- Need #4: Decrease overall census burden to hub locations.
- Need #5: Increase provider and nursing satisfaction and safety.
- Need #6: Increase the ability for the CAH to provide more acute services and procedures.
- Need #7: Increase customer satisfaction by decreasing the need to be transferred outside of their community.
The Opportunity
- Goal #1: Utilize a “pool” of regionally located RTs to provide cross-coverage to all Critical Assess locations.
- Goal #2: Within the scope of the RTs license, RT services can be reimbursed at a higher rate.
- Goal #3: Allow patients to be treated for many respiratory diseases within their community.
- Goal #4: Increasing utilization of the CAHs resources will decrease the burden on the hub location.
- Goal #5: By providing Rt services, nurses and providers can be unburdened and better supported clinically.
- Goal #6: Significant cost savings by utilizing an inclusive staffing model.
- Goal #7: Organic growth of procedures and triage.
The Benefits of a Partnership with PSI
- Access to pool of highly trained, board-certified Respiratory Therapy staff
- No long-term contracts such as those with other travel companies.
- Ability to fill vacancies within a pre-existing RT schedule or the complete outsourcing of the RT department.
- Hospital leadership is welcome to continue to contract with other staffing companies as needed.
- No burdensome exclusive or non-compete contracts.