Dallas-based healthcare workforce solutions company AMN Healthcare is introducing a new teletherapy platform designed to increase access to therapy services for students nationwide.

Called “Televate,” the platform allows school therapists, including psychologists, speech language pathologists and others, to hold sessions in virtual therapy rooms, manage their scheduling, attendance, referrals and document uploads all in one secure location, the company said.

“The need for school-based therapy services is increasing, while access to therapists is limited,” Kristin Martinez, M.A., CCC-SLP, senior director, teletherapy with AMN Healthcare, said in a statement. “Televate offers an innovative way to expand access to individualized, essential services in underserved areas and other school districts where these services are urgently needed.”

Televate will be offered at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year.

Training on the platform will be provided to both school districts and clinicians staffed by AMN Healthcare, the company said. Throughout the school year, AMN Healthcare will partner with school districts and clinicians to make further enhancements to the platform if needed to better serve student needs.

Features of Televate

Martinez said that Televate offers unique features that create a new level of care.

Some current student teletherapy sessions occur on platforms designed for conference calls and webinars that were not developed to support high-quality therapy and evaluation services for children, Martinez said. Televate, however, provides features designed to increase ease of student access, while engaging and empowering students to reach their developmental and academic goals, she said.

Those features include capacity for individual and group sessions, second camera integration, adjustable video feeds, and collaborative tools, including a whiteboard and greenscreen, AMN said. Also, clinicians can access a therapy room with integrated materials and assessments from leading publishers to meet standardized virtual evaluation requirements.

“Televate is a high-tech resource intended to achieve a high-touch outcome,” said Patrick O’Connor, president of school solutions at AMN Healthcare. “It provides clinicians with everything they need to perform their jobs at an extremely high level, while allowing school districts to meet mandated therapy service requirements.”

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