Phillips County Hospital & Family Health Clinic partners with HealthLinkNow

Phillips County Hospital & Family Health Clinic (PCH) is pleased announce its innovative new partnership with HealthLinkNow, Inc (HLN) which is designed to significantly improve mental health care access to everyone within the community. As Ward C. VanWichen, CEO , of PCH explains, “We are excited about offering this new service option in our community because it provides an excellent, timely therapy and psychiatric services to residents within our community that will work in collaboration and partnership with our own local primary care Practitioners which should enhance the quality of the service and care provided to the people we serve.”

What makes this program so unique is that patients will be able to receive their care right here in Malta at the PCH Family Health clinic where their primary care Practitioner’s office is also located . Not only will this save time, money and be more convenient, patients will benefit immeasurably from having thier primary care Practitioner working directly with psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. “This kind of collaboration should be invaluable,” explains VanWichen, “because it provides patients with truly integrated care that focuses on the whole person and ways to improve health and wellness from every angle.”

A leading provider of mental health services, HLN will provide PCH & Family Health Clinic with a team of highly trained, dedicated mental health professionals ready to meet with patients whenever they need it. How does it work? Barb Johnston, CEO of HLN, explains: “It is really very simple, secure and, most importantly, private. Once a Practitioner at the PCH decides to refer to HLN, the Clinic staff registers the patient via our website at http://www.healthlinknow.com and then one of our caring, knowledgeable Care Navigators then contacts the patient to gather further information and schedule the first appointment at PCH where the patient is already being seen.” Patients then meet with their psychiatrist via secure online video visits for all their appointments. “All our local the clinic needs is a PC or Mac, a webcam and a broadband connection,” says Johnston.

This state-of-the-art collaboration between Phillips County Hospital & Family Health Clinic and HealthLinkNow is blazing new trails in health care. Through innovations such as these, patients are receiving unparalleled access to health care never thought possible before. Using this model, healthcare organizations and providers across the nation eventually will be able deliver care when and where it’s needed, participating in the evolution of personalized, patient-centric, collaborative care.