Virtual Behavioral Health for Inpatient Units
Permanently solve your behavioral health unit’s quality and professional staffing challenges, while optimizing your census.
Forefront Telecare provides virtual behavioral health for inpatient units with 24/7/365 professional psychiatric coverage, Medical Directorship, Rounding, and on-call coverage. By partnering with Forefront, hospitals can permanently solve their professional psychiatric staffing challenges, while optimizing their census. Forefront can provide full or partial coverage as needed to ensure your unit runs smoothly and your patients get the mental health care they need.
Key Benefits
Reduce Turnover & Burnout
Medical Directorship with 24/7/365 On-call Coverage
Daily Rounding
Drive Revenue
Eliminate Locums
Operational Efficiency
How It Works
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Patient Admission
Patient cleared and accepted on unit via direct admission for ED. Forefront clinician (PMHNP or MD) performs initial assessment and medication evaluation with 24/7/365 rapid response coverage, streamlining the process.
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Daily Rounding
Patient is seen daily by Forefront PMHNP during rounding and as need via on-call coverage. Forefront MD rounds once or twice per week as well.
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Establish Care Plan
Forefront provider establishes and executes a care plan including medication management and psychotherapy as needed.
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Clinical Collaboration
Forefront clinician documents all visit notes in your EMR system including any medication recommendations. Forefront MD providers supervisory medical directorship and holds weekly Interdisciplinary Team Meetings with PMHNPs.
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Discharge & Billing
Forefront clinician will complete discharge summaries within 24-48 hours. Forefront platform collects needed patient info from hospital EMR and clinician notes and passes to RCM for billing.
