SJRMC, Riley Hospital for Children Announce Partnership
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and Riley Hospital for Children today announced a long-term partnership that will enhance outpatient pediatric specialty care and complement the children’s primary care services currently available in Michiana.
The announcement for SJRMC’s partnership with Riley took place Friday, January 25, at a 1:00 PM press conference in the Education Center of SJRMC’s South Bend Campus.
Riley Hospital for Children at SJRMC will offer expanded services in several outpatient pediatric specialty areas.
Riley will coordinate with SJRMC and with physicians affiliated with both institutions to provide outpatient pediatric management, consultation, education, and telemedicine services.
SJRMC will improve access to outpatient pediatric care through the telemedicine program, which allows Riley specialists to safely and effectively diagnose and treat patients remotely, saving patients and their families the delay, inconvenience, and expense of travel resulting in efficient access to Riley pediatric specialists.
“There are many excellent pediatricians and family physicians providing primary care for children here, but geographical isolation from Riley has limited access to providers in most pediatric specialties,” said Nancy R. Hellyer, President and CEO of SJRMC. “With this new long-term relationship with the nation’s highest acuity children’s hospital and its affiliation with the Indiana University School of Medicine, we will greatly improve access to those specialists through our Pediatric Specialty Clinics and the telemedicine program. We also look forward to the opportunities that construction of the new hospital in Edison Lakes offers for the inpatient care of our most valuable resource, our children.”
The telemedicine technology also makes it possible for SJRMC and Riley to offer a greater variety of educational opportunities to local providers, hospital staff, and the community.
“We are excited about partnering with Saint Joseph’s to offer Riley outpatient pediatric specialty care in the Michiana communities,” said Dan Fink, Riley Chief Operating Officer. “Working together with multi-disciplinary teams allows us to treat a wider range of childhood diagnoses and build on improving the health of children and families in Michiana.”
Riley already contributes to SJRMC’s Pediatric Specialty Clinics, including cardiology, endocrinology and diabetology, gastroenterology, and rheumatology. Other elements of the partnership include new services to SJRMC’s Pediatric Specialty Clinics, such as neurology, with selected services potentially being offered through telemedicine technology.
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