Bette Helm, who lives at Accura HealthCare nursing home in Knoxville, Iowa, visits via an iPad with Ayesha Macon, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Austin, Texas on March 1, 2023. Macon helped Helm consider ways to cope his anxiety and insomnia.  Helm says she has such appointments via video

Telehealth psychological well being care fills the hole in rural nursing houses

KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Bette Helm was joyful to have somebody to speak to about her insomnia. Helm lives in a nursing house on this central Iowa metropolis…