The healthcare workforce is in crisis. We’re helping build a smarter solution.

Across the U.S., hospitals are being asked to do more with less. Costs are rising by as much as 10% annually, while revenues crawl upward by just 2–3%. Meanwhile, a half-million registered nurses are expected to leave the workforce by 2025 and hospitals are feeling the pain today.

We believe the systems that keep our country running, healthcare included, deserve better infrastructure. That’s why we led the Series A investment in VitalChat: a virtual care platform that’s reshaping what’s possible in hospital rooms across the country.

The Staffing Crisis Behind the Bedside

Turnover costs for a single nurse can exceed $60,000. Beyond the financial toll, nurse burnout has direct implications for patient care: increased medical errors, delayed interventions, and a loss of institutional knowledge that new nurses can’t easily replace.

New grads, often assigned 5-6 patients when they’re only trained for 2, are burning out early. Seasoned nurses, physically drained by years of shift work, are leaving clinical roles even though their judgment and experience are irreplaceable.

It’s not just a staffing problem, it’s a wisdom problem.

Vitalchat’s Model: Extend, Don’t Replace

Rather than adding new staff (an increasingly impossible ask), Vitalchat offers a model that extends the reach of experienced nurses through virtual care tools.

With a single platform, hospitals can:

• Deploy senior RNs as remote mentors to newer staff
• Monitor rooms for safety issues like falls or medication errors
• Offload time-intensive tasks like admissions and charting
• Create real-time emotional and clinical support channels

The result? Improved outcomes, better nurse retention, and more human-centered care.

In fact, one health system using Vitalchat saved 43,000 bedside nursing hours in a single year - time that went back into patient care, not paperwork.

Why GHC Industries Invested

Vitalchat embodies the kind of business we support: smart, efficient, and human. Here’s what made the company a standout:

• Operational ROI: Vitalchat helps health systems save money by reducing turnover, preventing errors, and optimizing staff deployment.
• Workforce enablement: Instead of replacing workers with tech, it amplifies their capabilities.
• Mission alignment: We invest in infrastructure that solves real-world problems and Vitalchat delivers exactly that.

As Alan Pitt, MD, Vitalchat co-founder, says:

“The intelligent hospital room of the future has to be a participant in offering better care at lower costs.”

We agree. And we’re proud to support the team building that future.

GHC Industries is proud to have led the Series A investment supporting Vitalchat’s national expansion.

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