Resource Type: Whitepapers

How Rural Hospitals can Use RHTP Funding for Virtual Care

Posted on August 6, 2026 by - Featured

$10 billion in RHTP funding is on the table for rural hospitals, but securing it and putting it to work takes more than good intentions. CNOs and CFOs need a clear, actionable plan to confirm eligibility, build a competitive application, and design virtual care programs that outlast the grant period.

Download the planning guide to learn:

  1. How to confirm your facility’s CMS certification type and verify your state’s RHTP plan covers virtual care
  2. The 7 strategies that make an RHTP application competitive, from hyperlocal data to a sustainability narrative that goes beyond Year 5
  3. How to build a post-award deployment plan that reinvests efficiency savings so your virtual care program outlasts the funding
  4. How AvaSure’s virtual care platform, trusted by more than 1,200 hospitals with a proven 6x ROI, directly supports RHTP’s core priorities of workforce modernization, patient safety, and sustainable rural operations

The Impact of AI-Enabled Monitoring in Rural Hospitals

Posted on July 27, 2026 by - Featured

Peterson Health whitepaper

Rural hospitals shouldn’t have to choose between staffing and patient safety. With the right AI-enabled monitoring strategy, virtual care can extend clinical capacity, catch safety risks earlier, and quiet the noise that leads to alarm fatigue, all without adding headcount.

Download the whitepaper to see real-world results from Peterson Health’s virtual sitting program and learn:

  • How Peterson Health cut its stat alarm rate by 38% with AI alerts
  • How an average stat alarm response time of 11 seconds is possible when AI alerts are routed through virtual safety attendants
  • How cross-training patient care technicians as virtual sitters built early staff adoption and a scalable monitoring pool
  • How to identify where your organization’s virtual care journey should start, and how to measure early wins alongside long-term outcomes

Virtual Nursing’s Dual Impact on Staff & Patients

Posted on July 6, 2026 by - Featured

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Virtual nursing isn’t just a staffing fix, it’s a throughput strategy. When designed around an organization’s specific bottlenecks, it can ease pressure on nursing staff and speed up the patient journey at the same time, without sacrificing the quality of care patients receive.

Download the guide to see real-world results from Los Angeles General Medical Center’s virtual nursing program and learn:

  • How LA General’s virtual nursing strategy cut ED holding time by 16% and discharge turnaround time by 31%
  • Why virtual admissions earned a 4.7/5 patient satisfaction rating
  • How to identify the workflows in your own organization where virtual care will have the greatest impact
  • Why virtual care value shows up differently across the patient journey and how to measure what matters for your system

How to Advance Your Virtual Care Journey & Measure Success

Posted on May 4, 2026 by - Featured

graphic of the front page of the HMH whitepaper

As virtual care matures, the question is no longer whether virtual care can work, but how it works best in different environments, and how success should be measured. Real-world results matter, even early in the journey. Early signals for clinicians, like decreases in re-admission or decreases in time spent on charting, are strong indicators of long-term financial outcomes. 

Download the guide to see real-world results from Hackensack Meridian Health’s virtual care journey and learn:

  • How to measure success that actually matters for your health system — not just replicate another’s model
  • How HMH achieved $1.6M in cost avoidance across nurse retention, length of stay, readmissions, falls, and more
  • How to spot early signs of success in your virtual care program
  • Why early clinical wins are just as important as long-term financial outcomes

Virtual Nursing Deployment: Strategic Checklist and ROI Scorecard

Posted on March 26, 2026 by - Featured

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Are you ready to take actionable steps to deploy your virtual nursing program?

Download the checklist to uncover:

  • A straightforward one page checklist with step by step actions, details, and insights.
  • A readiness and ROI scorecard to help you determine which first use case is right for your program.

Once you have downloaded the checklist, read our whitepaper to dive even deeper into how to advance your virtual care journey and measure success, with real-world virtual nursing results from Hackensack Meridian Health.

How to Scale Virtual Nursing Beyond Pilots

Posted on February 4, 2026 by - Featured

Industry experts and healthcare leaders agree that virtual nursing is essential for the future of acute care. However, while 74% of hospital leaders believe virtual nursing will become integral to inpatient delivery, only 10% have fully standardized these programs within their operations. 

To help organizations move beyond the cycle of perpetual pilots, this whitepaper provides a strategic roadmap for scaling virtual care across the enterprise. Drawing on the successful journey of Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), we explore how to overcome critical barriers in organizational alignment, staffing, and funding. 

Download the whitepaper to uncover: 

  • Actionable lessons for cross-functional alignment, including how to establish specialized project teams for technology, clinical workflows, education, and more. 
  • Real-world clinical and financial impact, such as HMH’s 11.6% reduction in length of stay and 65% reduction in RN traveler hours. 
  • Data-driven staffing strategies that identify peak utilization windows and determine optimal nurse-to-patient ratios to ensure long-term sustainability. 
  • Funding and infrastructure blueprints for using labor savings from virtual sitting to offset virtual nursing investment costs. 

Once you have read the whitepaper, download our virtual nursing deployment checklist for a straightforward and actionable one-pager, and a readiness and ROI scorecard to help you determine which first use case is right for your program.

Follow the virtual nursing journey of HMH to see new results and updates on how they are using AvaSure’s virtual nursing platform!

Reducing ED Boarding While Funding Virtual Care

Posted on July 15, 2025 by - Uncategorized

Reducing ED Boarding While Funding Virtual Care

Emergency Department (ED) boarding continues to strain hospitals, driving up costs, compromising patient outcomes, and contributing to clinician burnout. However, this critical issue presents an overlooked opportunity: what if solving ED boarding could pay for itself—and even fund a virtual nursing program? This whitepaper explores how tackling ED boarding not only improves operational efficiency and patient flow, but also offers a path to sustainably deploy virtual care solutions without additional budgetary strain.

Download the guide to learn:

  • How addressing ED boarding issues could help fund your virtual care program deployment through cost savings
  • How much ED boarding increases per-patient costs by day, totaling millions in annual losses
  • The clinical and operational impacts of ED boarding, including increased mortality and staff burnout
  • The top ways virtual nurses directly impact ED boarding

A Pathway to Zero Falls: Protecting veterans from preventable harm

Posted on September 17, 2024 by - Featured

Falls remain a persistent and costly issue among hospitalized veterans, who are at a higher risk due to more prevalent chronic conditions. In response, the Veterans Health Administration introduced the SAFE STEPS for Veterans Act in 2024, creating an Office of Falls Prevention. Staffing shortages, particularly among Patient Care Technicians and Certified Nursing Assistants have exacerbated patient safety concerns, with patient falls rising 253% from 2020 to 2022.

To reduce the need for 1:1 sitters and improve safety, AvaSure’s AI-powered virtual care platform enables hospitals to remotely monitor high-risk patients and prevent falls and other adverses events.

Download the guide to learn:

  • How to reduce falls by nearly 20%
  • Ways to improve staff efficiency & satisfaction
  • The top 4 adverse events prevented in VA hospitals



Last Updated: July 15, 2026

Top 3 Use Cases for AI in Virtual Care

Posted on June 26, 2024 by - Featured

AI in Virtual Care whitepaper

Explore how artificial intelligence—particularly computer vision, ambient listening, and agentic AI—can transform healthcare delivery by prioritizing staff and patient safety, improving patient experiences, and optimizing workforce efficiency. AI plays a critical role in creating proactive safety measures, streamlining operations, and empowering patients through responsive, voice-activated tools. While AI presents powerful opportunities to optimize care, it is crucial to acknowledge the importance of ethical implementation, staff engagement, and seamless integration into clinical workflows to ensure AI acts as an enabler, not a replacement, in patient care.

What You Will Learn:

  • How AI technologies like computer vision and agentic AI improve patient and staff safety through real-time monitoring and escalation detection.
  • Ways AI boosts operational productivity by automating routine tasks such as documentation, rounding, and request routing.
  • How AI enhances the patient experience with voice-activated assistants and personalized, timely services that foster comfort and control.

The CIO’s checklist to choosing a virtual care platform

Posted on April 11, 2024 by - Uncategorized

The CIO's checklist 
to choosing a virtual care platform

Hospital CIOs need technology partners that can significantly reduce administrative burden on clinical staff, lower costs and improve patient outcomes by integrating virtual care technology.  Many health systems are implementing virtual care platforms for use-cases such as admissions, discharge, specialty consults, and virtual rounding. Virtual care is more than video calls; it combines in-person and remote treatment and requires scalable, enterprise-wide technology that doesn’t create a burden on IT resources.

Find out how AvaSure, the leader in Virtual Care with over 1,100 customers, can help you move from virtual sitting to a true end to end virtual care strategy.