Gentiva® Cardiopulmonary Demonstrated Ability to Increase Patient Functionality, and Reduce Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits in a National Study

Filed in archive Diagnostics , Studies , Treatment on June 28, 2006

Gentiva® Cardiopulmonary is a home-based disease management program that demonstrated increased patient functionality, reduced hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and improved compliance in the taking of medications; according to a two-year national study of more than 700 Gentiva® Cardiopulmonary patients:

• 92% of patients were able to perform activities of daily living at the time they were discharged from the program and 16 weeks after discharge.
Only 38% said they could perform such activities when they were admitted
to Gentiva Cardiopulmonary.

• 96% of patients required no further hospitalization 16 weeks after
discharge.

• Only 10% of patients required an emergency room visit after discharge
from the program, and this figure dropped to 6% within 16 weeks after
discharge. Approximately 71% required such visits when they were admitted to the program.

•91% of patients said they could explain the actions of their medications
upon discharge and this figure increased to 99% 16 weeks after discharge.
About 51% said they had this capability when they were admitted.

• 91% said they understood the side effects of their medications upon
discharge and the number rose to 96% 16 weeks after discharge. Upon
admission, only 43% said they had such an understanding.

Gentiva® Cardiopulmonary is designed to prevent the progression of heart- and lung-related diseases, assist patients and their physicians in managing those diseases, and control expenditures for health insurers by limiting or eliminating the need for more costly institutional care.

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