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Respiratory Therapy

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 Objective

  • 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.

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