Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Selects Cardiocom® as its new Telehealth Vendor

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 6, 2011Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut,one of the state’s oldest and largest home health agencies, announces that it has entered into a business relationship with Cardiocom® to provide advanced home telehealth technology to patients with chronic conditions using Cardiocom’s new Commander Flex™ device. Cardiocom, the experts in telehealth, is a world class developer, manufacturer and clinical service provider of award-winning telehealth solutions.

Cardiocom’s telehealth system provides an interactive opportunity to proactively manage patient care. Every day VNS of CT patients use the Cardiocom Telehealth System to communicate with a VNS of CT nurse. The Commander Flex ™ guides the patient through an interactive health check and collection of vital signs including; weight, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and heart rate. This information is immediately transmitted via a standard phone or a cellular signal.

“VNS of CT has been using telemonitoring for almost 10 years. We have recently switched to using Cardiocom because of the need to keep abreast of new and improved technologies that best suit our organization and patient needs,” says William F. Sullivan, Jr, President and CEO.

About Visiting Nurse Service of Connecticut.

VNS of Connecticut is one of the state’s oldest, largest and most comprehensive providers of skilled home health and hospice services, having emerged from its beginnings as the Bridgeport VNA to rescue at risk home care services in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties. The agency currently serves more than 7,000 patients each year, making more than 250,000 home care visits. A national 2010 Home Care Elite agency, VNS of Connecticut utilizes disease management programs, protocols and telehealth technologies to focus on heart failure, COPD, hypertension and diabetes to provide services for the chronically ill in their homes and to prevent hospital re-admissions. The agency’s readmission rates are traditionally among the lowest in the state. Also, VNS’ Hospice at Home™ program, created in the mid 1980’s, was one of the nation’s first Medicare certified end-of-life programs. Agency staff have since augmented the hospice program to offer palliative care treatments for patients likely to enter hospice service.

About Cardiocom

Cardiocom®, the Experts in Telehealth℠, is an award-winning leader in innovative home telehealth solutions. Founded in 1997, Cardiocom develops, manufactures and markets its own telehealth devices for heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, COPD, asthma and other chronic conditions. Cardiocom’s clients include some of the most respected home health groups, health plans, hospitals, physician groups, and coordinated care companies in the nation. Through these established relationships, Cardiocom improves the lives of thousands of people each day. For more information on Cardiocom and its services, call 888-243-8881 or visit www.cardiocom.com

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Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut is one of the state’s largest non-profit home health care organizations, serving residents of 54 cities and towns in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield Counties. VNS provides a comprehensive range of services including skilled nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social work and home health aide assistance. VNS Specialty Services include Hi-Tech Home IV Therapy, Wound Care, Psychiatric Nursing, Pain Management, Palliative Care, Nutritional Counseling, Elder Care Planning. The VNS Hospice at Home Program™ provides comprehensive home care for terminally ill patients and their families. VNS affiliate, Partners in Care, offers live-in and sleep-in home health aide services as well as the VoiceCare personal emergency response system. For more information, visit our website at www.vnsct.org.