Current Telehealth Activities and Partners
Rural Telehealth Partners include:
- Jefferson General Hospital, Port Townsend, WA
- Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles, WA
- Forks Community Hospital, Forks, WA—with links to:
- Clallum Bay Clinic
- Jefferson Mental Health
- Kitsap Mental Health
- Peninsula Mental Health
- West End Outreach
- Harrison Memorial Hospital, Bremerton, WA
- Gray’s Harbor Community Hospital, Aberdeen, WA
- Mark Reed Hospital, McCleary, WA
- Mason Hospital, Shelton, WA
- Morton Hospital, Morton, WA
- Ocean Beach Hospital, Ilwaco, WA
- Willapa Harbor Hospital, South Bend, WA
- Island Hospital, Anacortes, WA
- Skagit Valley Hospital, Mount Vernon, WA
- United General Hospital, Sedro Woolley, WA
- Whidbey General Hospital, Coupeville, WA
- Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, Snoqualmie, WA
- Makah Tribe, Neah Bay, WA
- Nisqually Tribe, Olympia, WA
- Squaxin Island Tribe, Shelton, WA
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Tokeland, WA
- Quinault Tribe, Tahola, WA
- Skokomish Tribe, Skokomish Nation, WA
- Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), Anchorage, AK
- Providence Children's Hospital, Anchorage, AK
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Anchorage, AK
- Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN), Anchorage, AK Pilot sites:
- Maniilaq Health Association
- Nome
- Bethel
- Alaska Rural Telehealth Network (ARTN), Anchorage, AK Pilot sites:
- Sitka
- Providence Kodiak Island
- Providence Seward Medical & Care Ctr
- Petersburg Medical Center
- Southy Peninsula Hospital
Telehealth partners participating in the WWAMI program include:
- UW School of Medicine, Seattle Washington
- University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Washington
- Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Washington
- 8 UW Physician Network sites: Auburn, Belltown, Factoria, Issaquah, Shoreline, Federal Way, Kent/Des Moines, Woodinville.
- 18 Family Practice Residency sites throughout the WWAMI region
- UW SOM WWAMI Sites:
- University of Wyoming, Laramie Wyoming
- University of Alaska, Anchorage Alaska
- Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
- Washington State University, Pullman Washington
- University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho
Programs and Activities
Examples of the types of programs offered include:
- Surgical telementoring: expert surgeons at the UW Medical Center mentored surgeons at Gray’s Harbor Community Hospital during endoscopic surgery.
- UW Department of Medicine Grand Rounds provided weekly via video teleconference to numerous sites in Western Washington.
- Washington Emergency Nurse Education Council 8-day course in Basic Emergency Nurse Training provided via video teleconference to numerous sites throughout Washington has been offered 6 times in three years.
- Parkinson’s Foundation Support Group meetings held via video tele-conference between Seattle, Spokane and various rural sites in Washington.
- Telepsychiatry consultation services provided by UW Department of Psychiatry to Forks Hospital.
- Specialized in-services developed by the UW Department of Psychiatry and provided via video teleconference to mental health providers in Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Forks.
- Administrative meetings, training, and case consultations via video tele-conference between the UW Regional Heart Center and Harrison Hospital in Bremerton to support a new open-heart surgery center at Harrison Hospital.
- Breast cancer tumor boards from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles via video teleconference. This project is also expected to expand geographically to include other rural sites.
- Cardiology Grand Rounds provided from the UW Division of Cardiology to 10 sites in western Washington.
- Teleradiology service from the UW Department of Radiology to Jefferson Hospital in Port Townsend, Washington.
- School of Medicine Curriculum Committee planning meetings with WWAMI directors in each of the WWAMI states.
- School of Medicine WWAMI Peer Counseling conferences, bringing together students from all WWAMI locations via video teleconference.
- Multidisciplinary Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy weekly case conferences via video teleconference between UW Perinatal Medicine and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, with plans to expand to rural and remote sites in Washington and the WWAMI region.
- Traumatic Brain Injury educational series provided the UW TBI Project and the Washington Department of Health to numerous sites in Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.
- A Telecardiology program between the UW Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.