TytoCare Partners with Five New Health Systems to Expand School Health Initiative to 100+ Additional Schools Nationwide
May 14 2024 - 9:42AM
TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling health plans and
providers to deliver accessible, high-quality remote primary care
anywhere across the country, announced today that it has partnered
with five new health systems to bring TytoCare solutions to more
than 100 additional schools nationwide. TytoCare’s school health
initiative now reaches more than 2,000 schools across 31 states,
with the goal of increasing access to primary and urgent care for
children across the country.
“School clinics powered by TytoCare can provide essential
healthcare services remotely, increasing access to care and helping
students and their parents avoid trips to the clinic and missed
school days,” said Dedi Gilad, CEO and Co-Founder of TytoCare.
"When the Pro Smart Clinic is in schools, students get exceptional
care, parents get peace of mind and less time traveling to office
visits and sitting in waiting rooms, and the health system benefits
from exceptional, cost-effective care delivery.”
This most recent expansion of the school health initiative is
driven by partnerships with health systems including:
- Cone Health, which added 12 schools in Guilford County, N.C. to
its telehealth program;
- Sentara Health, which plans to launch a school-based telehealth
program in Title-1 schools across Virginia;
- A Plus Family HealthCare, a Kentucky-based FQHC, which will
place TytoCare devices in five schools located in Edmonson County,
Kentucky;
“We are thrilled to announce our partnership with TytoCare! This
collaboration means that here at A Plus Family HealthCare, we can
now dedicate even more of our time and energy to providing
exceptional care for our children, knowing that the technology side
of things is in great hands,” said Patrick Merritt, CEO of A Plus
Family HealthCare. “This partnership represents a significant step
forward in our commitment to delivering high-quality healthcare
services to the communities we serve.”
TytoCare’s school health initiative operates through
partnerships with health systems to place the Pro Smart Clinic
solution in school clinics, particularly in rural or underserved
areas where access to care may be more limited. The Pro Smart
Clinic is FDA-cleared to perform heart exams, lung exams (including
AI-driven wheeze detection), throat and ear exams, and to measure
body temperature. For many schools partnering with TytoCare,
implementing the Pro Smart Clinic means replacing telehealth carts,
which are often too bulky and expensive, and experience technical
difficulties that make care inefficient.
When available in schools, TytoCare’s Pro Smart Clinic saves
time for parents, gets children back into class, and reduces
avoidable emergency department (ED) visits. In a recent deployment
of TytoCare's Pro Smart Clinic in a large region serving over
60,000 students, results were significant. With TytoCare in
schools, there is a reduced burden on EDs, as 27 percent of parents
indicated they would have gone to the ED and 45 percent to an
urgent care center if not for the school-based telehealth program.
Further, 45 percent of parents reported they would have had to
travel 11-25 miles to access care for their children without
TytoCare’s availability in schools.
About TytoCareTytoCare is a virtual healthcare
company that enables leading health plans and providers to deliver
remote healthcare to the whole family through its Home Smart
Clinic. Combining a cutting-edge, easy-to-use, FDA-cleared device,
the Home Smart Clinic enables the whole family to conduct remote
physical exams with a doctor, replicating in-clinic exams for
immediate answers from home. TytoCare drives utilization rates that
are five times higher than traditional telehealth services; reduces
the total cost of care by an average of five percent; diverts ED
visits by an average of 10.8 percent; and has a high average NPS of
83. The Home Smart Clinic includes Tyto Engagement Labs™, a proven
framework of engagement journeys designed for the successful
deployment and adoption of the solution. To complete its offering,
TytoCare also provides the Pro Smart Clinic, for professional
settings outside the home to serve rural clinics, schools,
workplaces, and more. TytoCare serves over 220 major health systems
and health plans in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the
Middle East.
Press Contact:
Matt Clarke
TytoCare@crosscutstrategies.com