BY MARY FINN
Mid Michigan Home Care will be bringing better technology to rural areas.
The improvements are being paid for with a four hundred sixty thousand dollar Federal grant.
The money will be used to enhance tele-monitors; little machines used to send vital signs of patients at home to field offices.
With the expansion of the tele-montoring system into hospice care, terminally ill patients will benefit from better symptom management.
Christie Kanitz is the operations direction for MidMichigan Home Care.
"The whole goal of the telemonitoring system is to keep the patient out of the hospital and in the home. So the whole philosophy of home care is to help the patient recover at home where they are most comfortable."
Kanitz said that this is the third grant they have received from the rural development office in the past ten years.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
Mid Michigan Home Care will be bringing better technology to rural areas.
The improvements are being paid for with a four hundred sixty thousand dollar Federal grant.
The money will be used to enhance tele-monitors; little machines used to send vital signs of patients at home to field offices.
With the expansion of the tele-montoring system into hospice care, terminally ill patients will benefit from better symptom management.
Christie Kanitz is the operations direction for MidMichigan Home Care.
"The whole goal of the telemonitoring system is to keep the patient out of the hospital and in the home. So the whole philosophy of home care is to help the patient recover at home where they are most comfortable."
Kanitz said that this is the third grant they have received from the rural development office in the past ten years.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
