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BLOOMINGTON, Ill.- While all but essential workers are being asked to stay at home to contain the spread of COVID-19. OSF HealthCare is expanding its digital response strategy to offer care to patients without the need to leave home.
Pandemic Health Workers will digitally enable clients invited into the program who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and need to stay home or in quarantine to protect themselves and others.
Through this program, called COVID@Home and headquartered in Bloomington-Normal, OSF HealthCare and the State of Illinois will proactively and digitally support those needing care, while also reducing the potential increase of patients into a hospital’s emergency department when they don’t need emergency care.
“The program will allow us to fulfill our mission of serving with the greatest care and love, using digital technology and trained compassionate and trusted pandemic health workers to offer support to individuals where they are most comfortable, in their own homes,” said president of OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center Lynn Fulton.
These new solutions will help us care for individuals where they are, prevent the overcrowding of our sites with COVID-19 patients, and protect access to quality health care for all.
“I am so proud OSF HealthCare is leading the way with digital solutions to allow us to care for individuals where they are, many times preventing them from having to travel to seek care,” said Fulton.