Medical Xpress | Virtual physicians provide overnight care to patients in rural, critical access hospitals

In early 2023, if a patient living in rural Routt County, Colorado, was admitted to the UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center late at night, they may not have been seen by their inpatient physician until the next morning, or they were potentially transferred to another, farther away hospital to get care. Today, however, they would be able to stay at the medical center and instead get care virtually from a University of Colorado Medicine physician. The change is due to a virtual hospitalist service line that was established through a partnership between the UCHealth Virtual Health Center and the Division of Hospital Medicine in the CU Department of Medicine.

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