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Article: IDEAL LIFE[R] and Bayada Nurses Reduce Hospitalizations by 40-60 Percent for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure CHF and Hypertension.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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IDEAL LIFE, INC. and home care agency Bayada Nurses Inc. announced that hospitalizations for patients using IDEAL LIFE's remote health management products for CHF and hypertension have decreased 40 to 60 percent since the program began in September 2007. The clinical results were so favorable that Bayada Nurses, one of the nation's largest home health providers, has expanded use of the IDEAL LIFE system across offices in Pennsylvania, Arizona and New Jersey (see also IDEAL LIFE, INC.).
Participating patients monitored their daily weight fluctuations - a key indicator of heart failure - and blood pressure using both a Bluetooth-enabled digital weight scale (the ...