“A unique and innovative telemedicine project is providing nursing home patients that have Parkinson’s disease access to neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). The effort is a joint initiative between URMC and the Presbyterian Home for Central New York in New Hartford, a 250 bed nursing home near Utica and about 150 miles from Rochester.
When the nursing home opened in 2001, it was the first in the nation to offer specialized care to people with Parkinson’s and other movement disorders in a nursing home setting. For years, the Parkinson’s patients at the home would typically make 10 trips a year to Syracuse, Albany, or Rochester to see a movement disorders specialist. The trips were exhausting for the home’s elderly patients.”
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Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News, 14 july 2009
