Nightingales Home Health Services partners with DaVita for nephrocare

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Come together to launch pre and post dialysis continuum of care and home hemodialysis for patients of end stage renal disease

Nightingales Home Health Services, an enterprise of Medwell Ventures is associating with DaVita, a leading global provider of dialysis services. They come together to launch pre and post dialysis continuum of care and home hemodialysis for patients of end stage renal disease (ESRD) with the entire setup of dialysis being installed at the patient’s home.

Under this partnership, Nightingales would provide a specialised nephrocare plan which will include screening of patients for kidney related medical issue, initial clinical assessment, nursing care for pre and post dialysis continuum of care, dietary consultation, diagnostics and physical therapy. In addition for the home hemodialysis programme, DaVita would be responsible for the infrastructure setup including dialysis machine, reverse osmosis ultrafiltration water plant, consumables, etc. Through its  technological infrastructure, the DaVita Command Centre will be able to monitor the patient on real time basis, check for alarms, etc. and the staff will be able to converse with the patient via videoconference facility. Nephrologists associated with DaVita will also be available for home consultation for chronic patients with end stage renal disease.

EH News Bureau

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