VNA Chronic Disease Management

VNA Chronic Disease Management uses daily, in-home health monitoring along with home nursing care to improve management and maintenance of chronic diesase for patients with serious health conditions such as heart failure, chronic pulmonary disease and diabetes.

By using an in-home, wireless monitor (TeleCare), VNA nurses gather important health information about their patients each day to detect even slight changes in their health condition. When these changes are detected early, there is an opportunity for immediate corrective action while the patient remains at home.

Since 2002, the VNA of Ohio has been successfully helping patients improve their health and have fewer hospital admissions and ER visits through use of the TeleCare monitor.

Here’s how it works. Every morning, the in-home monitor “talks” the patient through a user-friendly information collection process.  The patient connects to the monitor or records the informtion in the monitor.   The monitor then wirelessly transmits the information to the VNA offices, where Registered Nurses review the information and have the ability to take immediate action, if needed. Reports are also sent to the patient’s personal physician for assessment.

The wireless TeleCare monitor, is the size of a clock radio and collects important health information from the patient, such as:

• Heart rate
• Blood pressure
• Oxygen saturation (percentage of oxygen in the blood stream)
• Temperature
• Weight
• Blood Glucose (blood sugar)

VNA Chronic Disease Management services can give patients the best of all worlds: the comfort of home and the security of daily monitoring and medical attention to gain better control of chronic disease processes, improve overall health and reduce visits to the physicians office and the hospital.

VNA Chronic Disease Management is no additional charge to patients under VNA care who meet the health criteria determined by a physician.

Please call 1-877-MYVNAOH for more information or to schedule VNA Chronic Disease Management services.