Lakeland Regional Health Launches At-Home Healthcare Program for Patients

New At-Home Healthcare Initiative

• 🏥 Lakeland Regional Health has launched a new program offering medical care directly in patients' homes.
• 🏠 This initiative allows doctors and nurses to visit patients for assessments and treatments, providing a more comfortable and convenient alternative to hospital stays.

Services Offered

• 🩺 The program enables healthcare professionals to administer various treatments, including IVs, medications, and oxygen therapy.
• 📱 Patients also benefit from around-the-clock remote patient monitoring and can connect with nurses via a secured platform using an iPad.

Patient Benefits

• 😌 For patients like Donald Massie, an 84-year-old needing further assessment, the at-home care is significantly easier and less stressful than inpatient hospital care.
• 🏡 Being in their own environment helps reduce patient anxiety and fear associated with illness and hospitalization.

Program Eligibility

• 📍 Patients must reside within a 30-minute radius of Lakeland Regional Health or its freestanding emergency rooms to qualify for the program.
• 📈 The program has seen initial success, with nine patients signing up in its first week.