Baptist Memorial Health Care is expanding specialty care and advanced services to help meet the evolving needs of patients in West Tennessee through a virtual technology initiative called the West Tennessee Virtual Care Project, which will include an electronic intensive care unit, a centralized cardiac monitoring unit, virtual sitters to help monitor patients at risk of falls and other injuries, and virtual nurses on wheels to assist with discharge planning and answering questions.
In January, the Tennessee Department of Health’s Health Care Resiliency Program awarded Baptist $3.6 million to help fund wireless network capabilities and telehealth equipment and services to expand virtual services at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City. The initiative will be implemented throughout 2024.
“Baptist is committed to providing high-quality care for all the communities we serve, including Carroll County, Union City and Covington,” said Brad Parsons, vice president of West Tennessee, DeSoto and Arkansas market operations for Baptist Memorial Health Care. “Through the West Tennessee Virtual Care Project, we can fulfill our mission and provide access to specialty and subspecialty care to patients close to home without the need for them or their families to travel for higher levels of care.”
