Taking care of yourself every day
Home-based monitoring helps improve your care in the comfort of your home. Checking your vital signs each day can help our home health care team keep an eye on your health.
Telemonitoring: A new way to care for yourself
Patients coping with chronic illness may need to make lifestyle adjustments to stay healthy. It’s important to follow your doctor’s guidelines about diet, exercise, and medication. It’s also useful for your home care team to track your vital signs and symptoms.
Home-based monitoring helps your professional caregivers get daily information about your health. Daily monitoring can include using small wireless devices set up in your home to perform one or more of the following activities each day:
It’s easy to do, and can contribute significantly to improved health.
With this program, our home health care team receives daily reports of your vital signs more frequent than your doctor’s office visits. This daily information is a useful supplement to the care you get from your doctor – it is not a replacement for that important care.
No equipment to purchase
Ministry Home Care will deliver everything you need to your home and teach you how to use it. This program is provided for you at no extra cost.
Efficient
Our telemonitoring system requires just a few minutes each day.
Simple
The system we use was designed for ease of use. It is simple for patients to take these measurements without assistance. The readings are sent automatically through your telephone line (toll-free) so our agency nurse can review them each day. There are no interruptions to your telephone service.