What You Should Know:
- Emory Healthcare and DispatchHealth collaborate to offer patients a new option to receive convenient and safe follow-up and/or high acuity medical care in the comfort of their own homes.
- The collaboration is designed to improve access to health care and reduce the total cost of care for patients throughout Atlanta, Georgia and surrounding communities. Additionally, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, DispatchHealth will supplement the health system’s efforts to provide timely care after a patient’s ER visit or hospitalization.
Partnership Details
Patients can request DispatchHealth’s Acute Care for a wide range of acute medical services including injuries and illnesses, viral infections, COPD exacerbations, congestive heart failure, urinary infections and more. Once requested, an emergency care-trained DispatchHealth medical team with the necessary tools and treatments, including on-site diagnostics, which include a CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act)-certified lab, provides in-home care to the patient. DispatchHealth is open seven days a week (8 a.m. to 10 p.m. in metro Atlanta), 365 days a year, including holidays. To request care, patients can call 678-400-3240 or visit DispatchHealth.com.
