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Community
Hospital Telehealth Consortium (VHTC)
Southwest Louisiana Health Care Systems
Lake
Charles Memorial Hospital
Kevin Haymon, BSN, RN
1525 Oak Park Blvd., Ste. A
Lake Charles, LA 70601
Ph: 337-494-2861 Fax: 337-494-6742
http://www.lcmh.com/telemedicine.htm
Email : khaymon@lcmh.com
Network Partners: Lake Charles Memorial Hospital,
Lake Charles, LA (11 spoke sites) Our Lady of Lourdes
Regional Medical Center, Lafayette, LA (5 spoke sites)
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton
Rouge, LA (2 spoke sites) Slidell Memorial Hospital,
Slidell, LA (1 spoke site) North Mississippi Health
Services, Tupelo, MS (3 spoke sites)
Project
Purpose: Develop a telemedicine network to improve
quality of and access to healthcare. Provide access
to quality health information, and distance-learning
opportunities to hub and spoke sites by the means
of videoconferencing technology.
Outcomes
Expected: · Provide home health care, to
include wound care, with real time assessments and
the use of store and forward technologies. ·
Provide telemedicine clinics in the rural school setting
and in the correctional setting. · Various
specialty telemedicine clinics (Cardiology, Psychiatry,
Ocular Plastics, Family Practice). · Distance
learning opportunities will be provided to health
care providers, lowering travel-associated costs.
· Provide community health information to the
public. (CHTC Evaluation Forms for all data collection).
Service
Area: 11 parishes in southern Louisiana, 20 HPSAs/MUAs.
4 Counties in northern Mississippi, 8 HPSAs/MUAs
Services
Provided: Network initiated in 1999, with Lake
Charles Memorial Hospital (Telemedicine project started
1994), as the lead agency. Providing Cardiology, diabetes
education and management, ophthalmology, psychiatry,
ocular plastics, home health, family practice, continuing
and community education.
Equipment:
V-Tel TC2000 videoconferencing unit, Polycom and Tandberg
set top units, Tandberg Interns, Tandberg Educators,
Ezenia MCU, American TeleCare home health equipment,
ophthalmoscopes, stethoscopes, ECG's, general exam
cameras, document cameras, ENT scopes.
Transmission:
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