Virtual Behavioral Health for Medical-Surgical and Intensive Care Units
Professional psychiatric coverage with same day and next day scheduled appointments for behavioral health consultations.
Forefront Telecare provides virtual behavioral health for medical-surgical and intensive care units with professional psychiatric coverage for behavioral health consultations. With Forefront’s virtual behavioral health platform, you can provide psychiatric consultations with same day and next day scheduled appointments. Forefront works within your EMR to document and deploy behavioral health services in close collaboration with your care teams. We expand behavioral health access to meet your care teams growing mental health needs with efficient, high-quality care delivery.
Key Benefits
Rapid Response Times
Higher Patient Throughput
Increase Access to Care
Reduce Turnover & Burnout
How It Works
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Identify Patient Need
Patient identified for need of behavioral health consultation by hospital medical team
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Schedule BH Consultation
Hospital staff schedules same day or next day behavioral health consultation with Forefront clinician using Forefront web portal. Forefront clinician receives booking notification, logs into Hospital EMR and reviews chart, then joins the telehealth session.
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Comprehensive Evaluation
Hospital RN brings telepsych cart to the patient. Forefront PMHNP conducts virtual behavioral health consultation with the patient, reviews diagnoses, and evaluates appropriateness of medication regiment.
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Clinical Collaboration
Forefront PMHNP documents patient disposition in your EMR system including any medication recommendations. Forefront clinician codes and signs-off on case. By integrating our clinician into your EMR and workflows, Forefront operates as a true extension of your care team.
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Follow-up or Discharge
Forefront clinician will perform any follow-ups as needed and can write scripts directly into EMR if inpatient placement is required.
