Appalachian Regional Healthcare System Raises the Bar with Net Health Therapy

Appalachian Regional Healthcare System Raises the Bar with Net Health Therapy

The outpatient rehabilitation clinics of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, based in North Carolina, have been on the latest leg of their digital transformation journey since 2015, when they implemented ReDoc® classic, Net Health Therapy’s legacy rehab therapy EHR. “We had computerized scheduling at the time, but still used paper documentation,” reflected Alicia DeBord, Manager of…

5 Actionable Tips to Boost Therapist Productivity in Hospital Therapy Programs

5 Actionable Tips to Boost Therapist Productivity in Hospital Therapy Programs

Whether you represent a large health system or a smaller, rural hospital, maintaining high therapist productivity is a crucial element to ensuring success for your hospital therapy program. Finding ways to boost productivity and enhance satisfaction for rehab therapists in both outpatient and acute care environments is key to reaching peak performance and optimizing your hospital’s…

4 Ways to Improve Hospital Therapy Operations in Acute and Outpatient Care

4 Ways to Improve Hospital Therapy Operations in Acute and Outpatient Care

Common themes are emerging in discussions with hospital rehab directors about everyday operational challenges in acute and outpatient clinics. Net Health’s Karen Sartin, MS, CCC-SLP, Product Analyst, and Doug Cundiff, MPT, MPH, Vice President of 360 Professional Services, recently hosted a webinar to share insights on managing several areas of concern for hospital therapy departments,…

How to Improve Therapist Productivity in Hospital Rehab Clinics

How to Improve Therapist Productivity in Hospital Rehab Clinics

Rehab therapists are at the heart of hospital therapy operations. Without a team of effective therapists, it would be a struggle to care for the sheer number of patients who need to be seen each day. However, that’s not to say that time-consuming manual processes or cumbersome documentation systems can’t derail productivity for our whole…

5 Ways to Enhance Your Hospital Therapy Operations Across the Board

5 Ways to Enhance Your Hospital Therapy Operations Across the Board

On the surface, a hospital’s various therapy settings, such as outpatient therapy and acute care rehab, have drastically different approaches, goals, and requirements. However, when we look a bit deeper, we find that these settings share a myriad of similar pain points that can be addressed and improved upon together to generate significant improvements across the board….

Inpatient Physical Therapy versus Outpatient: Important Differences

Inpatient Physical Therapy versus Outpatient: Important Differences

A greater emphasis on preventative care in physical therapy, along with an aging population in need of physical, speech and occupational therapy, has led to rapid growth in rehabilitation services. To meet demand, physical therapy services are now provided in a number of post-acute care settings. Two of these options, inpatient rehab therapy, and outpatient physical therapy…