Telepsychiatry increases
access to behavioral health care

Many Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) across the country lack sufficient staffing resources to fully serve their patient populations.

Genoa Healthcare Telepsychiatry makes specialized mental health services easily available to underserved communities by connecting patients to licensed professionals via our HIPAA-compliant software.

With telepsychiatry, patients can receive mental health care in the comfort of their local clinic and with the full support of an on-site clinical staff.

Emergency rooms often lack adequate staffing to efficiently treat patients presenting with mental health-related issues. The prolonged boarding times that result in EDs can not only be financially costly to hospitals and increase staff’s stress, but also exacerbate patients’ conditions, lead to misdiagnosis, and increase the likelihood of unnecessary admission.

Telepsychiatry allows hospitals to extend their reach to patients located throughout a much larger geographical region. By using telepsychiatry, hospitals can access specialized providers who virtually deliver treatment to underserved patient
populations where need is high and access is low. Additionally, clinical efficiency can improve and patient wait times decrease.

Our programs are used to integrate behavioral healthcare services into primary care practices to better coordinate patients’ healthcare plans, increase their likelihood of making treatment gains, and establish a more cost-effective model of care. With more than two thirds of mental health patients also needing other medical treatment, it is essential to take a whole-person approach to healthcare. In fact, if a patient with a medical condition does not also receive treatment for a co-occurring mental illness, treating the medical condition itself becomes more costly as patients are less compliant, less autonomous, and more likely to miss appointments.