Regional Hospital Meets Challenge of Seasonal Surge While Improving Patient Care

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Trigg County Hospital is a critical access facility serving Western Kentucky’s Trigg County, home to a large recreational area surrounding the region’s popular Lake Barkley. Most of the year, the population of this hospital’s service area is a modest 20,000, but that number can triple in the summer months. This creates unique operational challenges for the hospital.

The facility’s close proximity to an outdoor recreational area yields a higher proportion of fracture and head trauma cases in the 24-hour emergency department. However, the rural location means there are very few radiologists in the region, making an on-site radiology model impractical.

The mission at Trigg County Hospital is to continuously improve care. A recent overhaul of the hospital’s approach to radiology has vastly increased the level of patient care year-round, streamlining radiology Alisa Coleman, CEO of Trigg County Hospital operations while providing premium access to radiology specialists.

Today, a relationship with Chicago-based Radiology Imaging Consultants, SC (RIC) gives Trigg County Hospital patients access to highly specialized radiologists, around the clock. Readings are typically provided in less than an hour; emergency cases are read in a matter of minutes.

This extraordinary increase in service level is possible due to RIC’s use of InteleOne, a distributed radiology solution from Intelerad that provides seamless access to studies, priors and reports, regardless of where the radiologists – or patients – are located. InteleOne provides a single, highly productive environment in which RIC radiologists efficiently and collaboratively perform real-time professional readings.

While patients in rural communities are often accustomed to long waits for medical results, at Trigg County Hospital the goal is a higher standard-of-care. “The patients have noticed a definite improvement in the quality of care we are able to provide by having results available nearly instantaneously,” Coleman says.

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