Partner with Lifeline
Bring specialized vascular access to your facility.
Lifeline partners with community healthcare organizations to bring experienced vascular access clinicians directly to the bedside.
Our goal is simple: help your team provide the right vascular access while keeping appropriate care local whenever possible.
Why partner with Lifeline?
Healthcare organizations should not have to choose between maintaining full-time specialty coverage and transferring patients elsewhere for vascular access.
Lifeline provides another option.
Our clinicians can complement existing teams with specialized vascular access procedures, consultation, difficult-access support, education, and program development.
Lifeline may be appropriate when:
- Your facility does not maintain a dedicated vascular access team.
- Specialized vascular access is available only during limited hours.
- A difficult-access patient requires additional expertise.
- A patient may otherwise require transfer for vascular access.
- Your organization needs supplemental vascular access coverage.
- Your team needs vascular access education or competency support.
- Your organization is developing or strengthening its vascular access program.
Designed to work with your team.
Lifeline does not replace the clinical relationships already surrounding your patient.
Our clinicians work collaboratively with facility nurses, providers, pharmacy, infection prevention, case management, and other members of the patient's healthcare team, based on each organization's needs and workflows.
Questions prospective partners frequently ask.
What facilities does Lifeline serve?
Lifeline is designed to support hospitals, critical access hospitals, skilled nursing and post-acute facilities, rehabilitation organizations, hospice, and other healthcare partners requiring specialized vascular access expertise.
What services are available?
Services may include PICC placement, midline placement, ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement, difficult-access consultation, vascular access assessment, device troubleshooting, skilled nursing services, education, and vascular access program support.
Can Lifeline supplement our existing IV or vascular access team?
Yes. Lifeline's model is intended to complement existing clinical resources. We can develop the appropriate arrangement around each organization's needs.
How does Lifeline integrate with our staff?
Lifeline clinicians work collaboratively with the facility's existing healthcare team while maintaining clearly defined responsibilities, documentation processes, communication pathways, and organizational boundaries.
How is documentation handled?
Lifeline establishes documentation requirements and communication processes with each healthcare partner during implementation.
How are services billed?
Lifeline establishes facility-based contractual arrangements with healthcare partners. Partners can discuss specific pricing and service models during partnership development.
How do we begin?
Start with a conversation. Tell us about your facility, current vascular access resources, challenges, and goals. Together, we can determine whether Lifeline is a good fit.