Ridgecrest Regional Hospital (RRH) began in the mid-1940’s out of the need for medical care as the China Lake Weapons Station was in its infancy. Decades later, we continue to grow, building relationships with generations of families, contributing to the community and sharing in its achievements, broadening services throughout the Southern Sierra region and always bringing new heights of excellence in healthcare.
The Southern Sierra Telehealth Network (SSTN) that was established by RRH and serves the remote high desert region of California east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The SSTN provides telemedicine services including adult psychiatry, pediatric psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, cardiology, internal medicine, dermatology, and services to the developmentally disabled. More than 1200 interactive telemedicine services were provided by the SSTN in 2006.
Med-RT:
- Acted as business solutions technical adviser to RRH and SSTN, assisting with the transition from telemedicine over ISDN lines to more cost-effective and higher quality telemedicine solutions using IP over Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and the Internet. These solutions have included High Definition Video (HDV) that improves patient assessment capabilities, high quality digital stethoscopy, and real-time, on-demand, mobile wireless interactive video interpretive services that can be deployed throughout the hospital.
- Managed service for all telemedicine equipment.
 Photo by Laura Austin |
Fuller tours telemed at RRH (January, 2008) By ADAM L. R. SUMMERS News Review Staff Writer Assemblymember Jean Fuller toured Ridgecrest Regional Hospital's growing telemedicine facilities and got a look at the hospital’s ongoing redevelopment projects during a tour Friday afternoon. From the outset, Fuller was impressed by the hospital's Outpatient Pavilion. "Wow," she said. "It's so beautiful. It's not like a hospital at all." But it was the hospital's capabilities in telemedicine – the ability to deliver health care to patients in Ridgecrest from providers far away – that seemed to most excite Fuller. |
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