St. Luke’s Health System Is Closing the Gap in Rural Idaho — With SAFE-T System

Healthcare IT News is out today with a story on how St. Luke’s Health System, Idaho’s largest health system, is using SAFE-T System to bring expert forensic care directly to survivors in rural communities across the state.

Before partnering with SAFE-T System, patients at some of St. Luke’s rural and critical access hospitals faced travel of two hours or more to reach a trained forensic examiner after a sexual assault. Now, through SAFE-T System’s hub-and-spoke telehealth model, a certified teleSANE nurse is available in real time to support bedside clinicians during forensic examinations, right in the patient’s own community, across six critical access hospitals and one larger facility.

The results speak for themselves. Local nurses report feeling more supported and confident in delivering high-quality care, and each case completed through the program represents a survivor who didn’t have to travel to receive the expert, trauma-informed care they deserved.

As Angela Brady, RN, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at St. Luke’s put it: “The ability to provide trauma-informed sexual assault care within a patient’s own community has meaningfully enhanced the patient experience while strengthening community trust and partnerships.”

Read the full story at Healthcare IT News: How St. Luke’s is bringing sexual assault forensic care closer to home in rural Idaho