Denver-based Dispatch Health, a mobile healthcare delivery start-up for acute care patients, reported raising $3.6 million in the seed funding round for expansion of its services.
Here are six notes:
1. Dispatch Health utilizes mobile cars staffed by acute care clinicians. The cars hold CLIA-certified lab medical equipment, medications and IVs, wifi and a network of mobile radiology providers.
2. The start-up's mission is to bring healthcare to a patient's home, office or senior care facility.
3. Dispatch Health delivers care through local municipalities, 911-first response systems, health systems, employers and payers and senior care facilities.
4. Dispatch Health's pilot saw more than 400 patients and $1 million saved, and proved that mobile onsite acute care reduces costs.
5. Dispatch Health was founded as True North Health Navigation in 2013 by Mark Prather, MD, MBA, and Kevin Riddleberger.
6. The start-up is contracted with all major payers in Colorado.
"Dispatch Health's network is unique relative to our competitors because we have employer relationships, senior care relationships, payer contracts and 911 diversion efforts in place," said Dr. Prather, CEO of Dispatch Health.
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