Critical Access SolutionsHospital Readiness Support

Hospital Readiness & Compliance

Monitoring and preparedness support for critical access hospitals with limited staff.

Open Transfer AssistantAvailable

Solutions

  • AvailableTransfer Assistant (Critical Access Services): nearby hospitals, contacts, road conditions, and aviation weather by ZIP code.
  • In developmentTransfer table: phone, road condition and sky condition for each nearby hospital at a glance.
  • In developmentHospital capabilities: trauma, stroke, pediatric and maternal designations from state health departments, each with its source.
  • PlannedLeadership desk: what is coming due, one view per role, behind a sign-in.
  • PlannedDocument match: does our paper match the rule? First module: obstetric services training.
  • PlannedBoard packets: draft bylaw and policy language, routed for a human vote.

Not planned: an electronic health record, a live bed marketplace, software that picks a hospital or launches a flight, or a claim that a hospital is survey-ready.

Supply Exchange

PlannedNetwork not operating

Help rural hospitals find needed medications and equipment, share available supplies, and rotate eligible stock before expiration.

Explore existing options

How it could work
  1. Facilities post what they need or can release.
  2. Authorized teams confirm availability and approve any transfer.
  3. Existing couriers deliver and receiving teams confirm receipt.

Proposed use cases only. Nothing here can be requested or reserved.

By Role

Critical access hospitals are small rural hospitals that keep emergency care open around the clock, often far from the next hospital.

Clinicians and house supervisorsWhere a patient can be sent, who to call, road and sky.Available

What we build

  • The nearest hospitals with their phone numbers and distance.
  • Weather alerts and conditions by ZIP code.
  • Read-only and shared by everyone on shift. No sign-in.
Hospital boardVotes and approvals, with the documents behind each one.Planned

What we build

  • Items waiting for a board vote, with the documents behind each one.
  • Board packets drafted from the hospital's own records, for the board to review.
  • Every vote and approval stays with the board. Nothing is adopted without it.
Chief executive (CEO)Regulatory requirements, each with its source, its owner and a backup.Planned

What we build

  • Regulatory requirements, each with its source and the leader who owns it.
  • A named backup for every item (the chief operating officer, then the chief nursing officer, then the chief medical officer), so nothing waits on one person.
Chief operating officer (COO)Coverage tonight, transfer and telehealth agreements, emergency readiness.Planned

What we build

  • Who is covering tonight (employed, locum or by video), worked out from the schedule, never typed in.
  • Transfer and telehealth agreements, with their renewal dates.
  • Emergency readiness, with weather and road disruptions beside it.
Chief nursing officer (CNO)Training records against each rule, locum nurses included.Planned

What we build

  • Training records against each rule, including locum nurses.
  • Drills and proof attached to the requirement they answer.
  • First module: obstetric services training.
Chief medical officer (CMO)Privilege dates, telehealth agreements, medical staff votes.Planned

What we build

  • Privilege and temporary-privilege dates.
  • Telehealth agreements and the privileges they rely on.
  • Bylaw and protocol changes drafted for the medical staff's vote, never adopted without it.
Infection prevention (infectious disease)Infection control and stewardship requirements, and public health alerts nearby.Planned

What we build

  • The infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship requirements, each with its source and the person who owns it.
  • Public health alerts for the area from health departments, with their source and date.
  • Training and proof attached to the requirement they answer.
Quality and risk (QA, RM)Each document matched to the rule it answers, before the surveyor.Planned

What we build

  • Each document matched to the rule it answers.
  • A status computed from evidence and an owner. Nobody clicks it green.
  • The areas surveyors cite most, such as patient transfers, first.

Services

Critical Access Services

Available

Transfer Assistant: nearby hospitals, contacts, road conditions, and aviation weather by hospital ZIP code.

  • Ground or air: airport weather against the FAA's default helicopter air ambulance minimums, with daylight and night now
  • Nearest hospitals, heliports and airports by straight-line distance
  • Watched hospitals: a short list of hospitals to open again, kept in the browser only

criticalaccessservices.com

How every tool is built

  • Every fact carries its source; live readings carry the time they were read, and what is not known is shown as unknown.
  • In the leadership desk (planned), nobody clicks an item green: status is computed from evidence and an owner.