WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC), announced today that it recently delivered its 50,000th emergency teleneurology consultation since the companys inception. This achievement in patient volume is unprecedented for any telemedicine company as well as for any single bricks and mortar healthcare facility treating emergency neurology cases.

SOC provides hospitals with immediate 24/7/365 access to board certified, fellowship trained neurologists for recommendations on stroke or any other neurologic emergency via telemedicine. By leveraging the skills of its expert neurologists, SOC helps hospitals and health systems treat neurologic emergencies and stroke patients with greater efficiency and effectiveness. Today, Specialists On Call provides nearly 2,000 emergency consultations each month to over 200 hospitals across 22 states. With access to around-the-clock on-call neurology coverage, these facilities among others have demonstrated increased tPA administration rates as well as reduced length of stay for stroke patients. Since 2006, SOC has helped oversee the administration of more tPA to eligible stroke patients than any single healthcare facility in the same amount of time.

Specialists On Calls new telepsychiatry service line delivers access to expert psychiatrists for hospitals hard pressed to provide 24/7/365 psychiatric on-call coverage in their emergency room. This turnkey service alleviates common hospital mental health care pain points such as staffing, boarding, security and depleted clinical resources. Thus far, SOCs telepsychiatry service has already produced thirty-three times the consult volume that their teleneurology service line generated during its first six months of operation and currently boasts an industry leading ECO reversal rate of over sixty percent.

To have helped over 50,000 patients with a critical medical emergency is truly remarkable, commented Specialists On Calls CEO, Joe Peterson, M.D. Were incredibly proud of what weve built, and we share our success with the countless number of lives weve impacted. Everyone at Specialists On Call is witness to the power of telemedicine and committed to further growth that will help even more patients and the hospitals that treat them.

Specialists On Call

Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC), is a Joint Commission-accredited organization that is changing emergency medicine. As the leading provider of emergency telemedicine consultations, SOC gives hospitals vital 24/7/365 access to more than 55 board certified, fellowship trained academic specialists, each with a minimum of 10 years experience. With operations on both coasts, SOC provides more than 2,000 emergency consultations per month for hospitals nationwide and hospital systems such as Vanguard Health Systems, HCA, Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

For more information please visit http://www.specialistsoncall.com

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