San Juan Regional Health

San Juan Regional Medical Center is expanding its care for COVID-19 patients outside of the hospital. The COVID-19 to Home (C2H) Clinic is now available for patients who do not have a primary care provider, in an effort to coordinate care and provide close monitoring to eligible patients who are either discharged home for self-isolation and/or not ready for hospitalization.

The C2H protocol is based on Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Care Model. Every patient tested within our system who receives results that are positive, suspected positive or negative but the patient may still have COVID-19 like illness will receive a call to set up an appointment with one of our C2H providers. Those providers will conduct routine telemedicine visits, either by phone or video conferencing, to follow up with the patients to ensure safe and effective care at home until they have recovered.  Goals of the C2H clinic include:

·         Utilize telemedicine for frequent monitoring to promote social distancing

·         Coordinate safe and effective transfer to a higher level of care when indicated

·         Decrease the number of COVID-19 related visits to Urgent Care and the Emergency Department

·         Decrease the number of admitted patients to the hospital secondary to safe and effective care at home

·         Decrease healthcare worker exposure to COVID-19 

·         Conserve PPE

·         Promote social distancing to flatten the curve and mitigate overwhelming the local healthcare infrastructure

Patients who are interested in this program can call 505.609.6284 to be screened for enrollment. Providers who would like to refer a patient and/or get a copy of the protocol are also asked to call this number.