Visiting Nurse Services In Westchester Inc

The telehealth program, an innovative community service program was created to assist our agency to achieve re-hospitalization rates below the new york state average. It was established to provide an enhancement to clinical management, monitoring, care and support through communication technologies. Also known as remote patient monitoring, personal health and medical data is collected from the patient while at home and transmitted to the home care agency via a web portal. This type of service allows a provider to continue to track healthcare data for a patient when not in the home. This effective patient monitoring can help to maintain the patient's health in their home and community, without having to physically go to a physician or emergency room, by reminding he/she to take their medications, monitoring weight gain or loss and proactively sending a nurse to the home before a medical emergency arises.