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AccessNurse Non-Clinical Director Recognized as a 2022 TeamHealth Women of Distinction Award Winner

We are excited to announce that our very own, Mandi San Nicolas, AccessNurse Director of Non-Clinical Services, on receiving the 2022 Women of Distinction Award by our parent company, Team Health. Check out a quick video below to hear from Mandi after receiving this award. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0y_izP1nqu8%3Ffeature%3Doembed%26enablejsapi%3D1%26origin%3Dhttps%3A Timothy P. Stephenson, AccessNurse Vice [...]

AccessNurse Triage Data Confirms Light at the End of the COVID Tunnel Is Near

Now that there was a sharp decline in Omicron COVID-19 variant cases, acute COVID-19 cases appear to be ending for most locations worldwide. While questions of whether or not and when future variants will emerge are still waiting to be answered, data clearly shows that COVID cases worldwide are currently [...]

It’s A Matter of Why: COVID-19 Third Dose vs. Booster Explained

As we continue to face and battle COVID-19 as a nation, patients are asking additional questions relating to booster shots. While the concept is not easily understood for some patients, the actuality is that the idea is, in fact, just that simple. Both shots are intended to help reduce the [...]

Schmitt-Thompson Guidelines Ensure Appropriate After-Hour Dispositions

Nurse telephone triage organizations using Schmitt-Thompson After-Hours Nurse Triage Guidelines can correctly direct patients to the right level of care: The latest published Schmitt-Thompson After-Hours Nurse Triage guidelines indicate that organizations who use the Schmitt-Thompson clinical content continued to provide high-quality care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the [...]

Nurse Triage Enhances Telemedicine Services

The pandemic made in-person patient visits risky and unavailable, forcing a rapid shift to telemedicine. According to a report by Medscape, remote patient engagement is up by 225%. Now that our society is on the mend of COVID-19, the healthcare industry has seen a positive development in improved telehealth services – [...]

AccessNurse Renews URAC Health Call Center Accreditation

URAC Designation Demonstrates Highest Level of Commitment to Health Care Quality AccessNurse is pleased to announce that we recently renewed our URAC Health Call Center accreditation, proving that our company meets best-in-class call center operations for the following areas: Our company has maintained URAC Health Call Center accreditation since 2004, demonstrating our commitment [...]

AccessNurse Supports Pacify in Providing Care at Home During COVID-19

An Infant and Maternal Health Provider Partners with AccessNurse to Enhance Quality Care Using Telephone Nurse Triage Services Overview During a year in which patients faced tremendous barriers to accessing healthcare services, Pacify and AccessNurse partnered to provide consistent, high-quality care to parents and their children through a nurse triage service line. [...]

Current Diabetes Landscape in the United States

Currently, over 40% of the United States’ total population has a chronic illness — that’s more than 144 million people. Of those with chronic diseases, 34.2 million Americans have one of three types of diabetes (Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, and prediabetes) — the 7th leading cause of death in the [...]

New AccessNurse Team Recognition Program

We are proud to acknowledge the important role that our awesome team members play in our company’s continued growth and success. To recognize team members who go above and beyond to provide the highest quality care and make a difference in our clients and their patient’s lives, we introduced a [...]

When Temperatures Dropped, Our AccessNurse Team Rose High

We’re are thankful for our team members who supported our clients during the extreme weather storm in January 2021. As the icy roads and power outages paralyzed many locations across the country, affecting many of our clients in Texas, Oklahoma, and other southeastern and northeastern states, our team members went [...]