Success Stories
How we’ve helped our clients thrive$7M in tech training for rural health staff
The Project
The project: Rural healthcare organizations sometimes struggle to fill staff positions, particularly those trained in healthcare technology. In 2016, Binghamton University’s Decker College of Nursing sought to form the Rural Technology Education Consortium (R-TEC) to serve New York State’s Southern Tier by creating a sustained supply of tech-trained healthcare professionals to the region. Scale Technology Solutions helped the school build a grant funding proposal while also serving as a technology consultant. The school won multi-million-dollar, multi-year funding from an Advanced Nursing Education Workforce grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.
The result:
To date, R-TEC has received more than $7 million in continued funding to support their program. As a result, more than 100 nurse practitioners have been placed in rural healthcare organizations, having received training in both primary care and telemedicine.
$5 million builds an industry leader in telehealth
The Project
When sparse populations occupy vast stretches of land, making it a challenge for residents to travel to healthcare providers. Finger Lakes Community Health (FLCH) based in Penn Yan, New York, was looking to help their patients access providers across a large five-county area more easily. And telehealth offered a solution. In 2007, they launched their telehealth program, and Scale Technology Solutions was there to help them make it happen. We provided FLCH with a needs assessment, helped them secure grant funding, and partnered on program development and management.
The result:
Through deft proposal writing, Scale Technology Solutions helped FLCH win more than $5 million in grants from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Primary Care and to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The telehealth program at FLCH has since evolved to become a nationally recognized model for telehealth services in a community health center setting. The organization has continued to win multiple rounds of grant funding from federal, state, and foundation sources, expanding their program into the Finger Lakes Telehealth Network to provide primary care, behavioral health, dental and administrative collaboration and learning services.
From a $6M award to $13M in savings
The Project
Broadband services are notoriously expensive for rural healthcare organizations. Scale Technology Solutions helped the Western New York Rural Broadband Healthcare Network (WNY-RBHN), a consortium of rural healthcare providers based in Warsaw, N.Y., to win a $6 million broadband subsidy award from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Rural Health Care Program (RHC).
The result:
The WNY-RBHN has since used that seed money to save their 170 member healthcare facilities more than $13 million in broadband expenses.
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