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TeleNeuroHospitalist Rounding Services

TeleNeuroHospitalist Rounding Services

To complement our TeleStroke services, TeleSpecialists offers general TeleNeuroHospitalist Rounding to provide follow-up consults for retained stroke patients and routine, non-emergent neurological consults for admitted new patients. Our TeleNeurologists conveniently round on patients in the comfort of your hospital’s inpatient setting, addressing diverse neurological symptoms such as:

  • dizziness
  • vertigo
  • transient ischemic attack (TIA)
  • migraine
  • seizure
  • metabolic encephalopathy
  • lumbar radiculopathy

TeleSpecialists can provide routine EEG interpretation services and remote long-term and prolonged EEG interpretation.

Our TeleNeuroHospitalist Rounding service involves an onsite delegate to manage the rounds with a telemedicine cart and our connected physician. Our physician on cart functions much like an in-person neurohospitalists, with his or her services provided virtually. Orders are updated by the neurologist and entered directly in your EMR. Standardization of rounding workflows allows our physicians to seamlessly partner with the hospital-based team to ensure the highest quality of care.

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Delegated Credentialing

In conjunction with our medical services, TeleSpecialists offers Delegated Credentialing (also known as credentialing by proxy). The growing popularity of telemedicine can put a strain on in-house credentialing resources, and oftentimes medical facilities are looking increasingly to Delegated Credentialing to alleviate the workload of their internal credentialing team.

TeleNeuroHospitalist Benefits

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Coverage and Scheduling

Free up the schedules of staff neurologists, so they may assist other patients, develop outpatient services, or take well-deserved time off. In some facilities, TeleSpecialists services all neurology needs. In other situations, TeleSpecialists coverage supplements the efforts of staff neurologists.

Stroke Patient Retention

Scheduled rounding through telemedicine allows hospitals to retain patients that otherwise may need to be transferred. Our services allow your hospital to avoid costly transfers, by keeping your patients close to home. This may also help to increase your market presence in your community, with constant access to expert neurological care.

Continuity of Care

Continual physician training, case reviews, and handoff workflows are part of our care model designed to drive efficiencies and improve patient outcomes and experiences for a comprehensive TeleNeurology program.

Financial Impact

Patient retention of high-acuity neurological cases may increase the Case Mix Index (CMI) for your location. The bill coding for more complex patients includes high-paying DRGs.

VALUE

  • 24/7/365 coverage for comprehensive neurologic services; timely acute care as well as routine and follow up consultations.
  • By offering enhanced neurological services through telemedicine, facilities can increase market share and improve regional reputation.
  • TeleNeuroHospitalist presence can help improve patient retention with patients seen acutely by providing neurology support to follow up on the patient. This allows facilities to maintain appropriate patients and avoid costly transfers.
  • TeleSpecialists can help improve Patient Satisfaction Scores.

EXPERTISE

  • TeleSpecialists has Board-certified neurologists available at a moment’s notice.
  • Subspecialty expertise including epileptologist, movement disorder specialists, neuromuscular specialists and Stroke and Vascular Neurologists available for specialty consultations.

GROWTH

  • TeleSpecialists provides service that allows coverage for gaps in call schedule to allow a comprehensive TeleNeurology program to scale.

QUALITY

  • TeleSpecialists utilizes lean management principles: a process improvement methodology that focuses on removing ‘waste’ from a process and solving problems through application of a standardized workflow.
  • TeleSpecialists is the only telemedicine company to earn the ISO 9001:2015 certification, through Bureau Veritas.
  • Extensive experience in treatment protocols for a variety of neurologic disorders.
  • Modules for comprehensive state-of-the-art TeleNeurology program education.
  • Inpatient order sets designed for specialty care.
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Contact Us

TeleSpecialists provides comprehensive TeleNeurology consultation services to help facilities develop programs from the ground up. Through experience with many major health care systems across the US, we realize the challenges of navigating the ever-changing telehealth landscape and are ready to help your hospital with consistent and high-quality service.

Our team of expert TeleNeurologists are available via telemedicine cart to provide a number of essential neurological services. Discover how our Telemedicine carts can improve continuity of care in your facility today.

CONTACT US

Nattasha Acevedo, MD

Dr. Acevedo received her medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico and did her neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She went on to do a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Emory School of Medicine in Atla nta, Georgia and then joined private practice in Fort Myers, Florida. She currently resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She likes running, paddle boarding and spending time with family.
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Bernadette Borte, MD

Dr. Borte received her medical degree from St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine in Grand Cayman. She completed her neurology residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. Her areas of interest include inpatient neurology and acute stroke. When not working, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her family. Dr. Borte joined the TeleSpecialist family in March of 2019.
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Mazen Almidani, MD

Dr. Almidani is board certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and board certified in epilepsy, as well as neurology with special  qualification in child neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  Dr. Almidani is happily married with 4 children. His oldest son has autism and his daughter has complicated seizures; both were a drive for him to become a neurologist. Dr. Almidani enjoys soccer, running and spending time with his family. He is very involved with his sons’ therapy and helping with daily challenges. He is double board certified in Pediatric and Adult Neurology and Epilepsy. He sees children and adults. He also participates in charities for children in Syria who may be underprivileged and/or affected by the war. Dr. Almidani joined TeleSpecialists in August 2020.
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Amanda Cheshire, MD

Dr. Cheshire received her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed her neurology residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She did a fellowship in neurophysiology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Cheshire is double board certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology. She enjoys traveling, reading and music. She currently resides in Viera, Florida.  Dr. Cheshire joined TeleSpecialists in June 2019.
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Jessica Floyd, MD

Dr. Floyd completed her neurology residency at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida followed by fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology with focus in EEG and epilepsy at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. She has particular interest in hospital neurology and patient education as well as the blossoming specialty of lifestyle medicine. She strives to take advantage of every encounter with patients and medical staff to empower them to do their own research into how daily thoughts, choices, and habits can add up to create greater and longer-lasting brain and neurologic health for ourselves and our loved ones. She lives in Florence, South Carolina with her awesome husband of 13 plus years and three beautiful children. She is an avid yogi, astrologer, and lover of food and all things neurology! Dr. Floyd joined the TeleSpecialist family in July 2017.
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Nancy Futrell, MD

Dr. Futrell received her medical degree from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also did her neurology residency at the University of Utah as well as a research fellowship in cerebral vascular disease at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. She currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has authored 2 books and 50 peer reviewed papers. 
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Rebecca Jimenez-Sanders, MD

Dr. Jimenez Sanders received her undergraduate degree from Emory University, and her medical degree from the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. She completed her neurology residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where she also did a specialized headache medicine and facial pain fellowship. She currently resides in Tampa, Florida with her husband and her two daughters. She is also fluent in Spanish and Italian languages, and enjoys photography, baking, boating, and biking.
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Cory Lamar, MD

Dr. Lamar received his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed his internship and residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Following residency, he completed a clinical fellowship in neurophysiology, with a concentration in epilepsy. He currently resides in Florida and enjoys outdoor activities.
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Clifford Meyers, MD

Dr. Meyers received his medical degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and his MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He completed his neurology residency at the University of Rochester, where he also did a neurophysiology fellowship. Dr. Meyers resides in Webster, New York with his wife and daughter. When not doing teleneurology, he enjoys playing sports with his wife and daughter.
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Tao Tong, MD

Dr. Tong received her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. She completed her neurology residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, where she also did a neuromuscular/EMG fellowship.  She currently resides in College Station, Texas. Dr. Tong is married with two boys. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling and reading.
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Shubhangi Chumble, MD

Dr. Chumble attended BJ Medical School. She is a board certified neurologist with a subspeciality interest in sleep medicine. Dr. Chumble did her residency at Howard University in Washington DC and has practiced neurology since 2001 in private and corporate settings. She lives in Melbourne, Florida and loves the sunshine state. Her hobbies include yoga, meditation, cooking , traveling and meeting new people. She also loves to do stained glass, pottery and painting. She joined TeleSpecialists in June 2019.
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