1. Telehealth Pilot Project
Eric Swanson, MBA, NRP
Director of Business Development

2. Land of Cheese, Trees & Ocean Breeze
Tillamook County
Population: 25,255
Area: 1,125 square miles
Annual Precipitation: inches
Coastline: 75 miles
Tillamook Cheese Factory
More Presidential Disaster Declarations than any County on West Coast

3. Tillamook Hospital…History
1940’s: Tillamook County begins operating hospital that had been owned by private doctor
1950: New hospital built at current location on 3rd Street

4. Tillamook Hospital…History
1973: Tillamook County signs lease agreement with Adventist Health
1975: Remodel-updates, exterior face lift
1986: Remodel-Radiology, Emergency Department

5. Tillamook Hospital…History
1995: Adventist Health lease renewed through 2045
1997: $10 Million remodel & expansion
2004: Critical Access Hospital designation
2009: Rural Health Clinic – Tillamook Medical Group
Today…

6. Tillamook Regional Medical Center
25 bed Critical Access Hospital
24-hour ambulance and emergency services
Clinical and outpatient therapy
Imaging
Laboratory
Medical and surgical services
Intensive care
Obstetrics
Rehabilitation
Home care & hospice
Five rural health clinics

7. Primary Secondary Tertiary Legend Hospitals TRMC RHC Clinics C A A H C
AMC-P A
Pacific City C
Legend
Hospitals
TRMC RHC Clinics
TRMC Ambulance Service H C C A

8. Project Overview

9. The Telehealth Pilot Project at Tillamook Regional Medical Center pilots the use of telehealth services in providing community-based paramedicine services to individuals in their home setting.

10. The project’s primary target population is individuals at risk for readmission to the hospital. Our target number visits by August 1, 2016 is 100.

11. Technology

12. Referral Sources

13. Home Visits

14. Lessons Learned

15. Physician Partnerships

16. Electronic Medical Record

17. Technology

18. Pilot Project

20. Telepsychiatry

21. Inmate Telehealth