Banner Home Care Using Telehealth to Reduce Readmissions

June 24, 2011
Banner Home Care, part of Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Ariz.), has partnered with Philips (Netherlands) to provide telehealth services to patients

Banner Home Care, part of Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Ariz.), has partnered with Philips (Netherlands) to provide telehealth services to patients with heart failure and other chronic diseases in order to reduce its readmission rate.

Banner Home Care has provided telemonitoring to more than 550 patients in the past three years, and achieved a readmission rate of 3.8 percent for patients on telehealth, versus a national readmission rate of 29 percent for Medicare-certified home health agencies, says the company.

Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, non-profit healthcare systems in the country. The system owns or manages 22 acute-care hospitals, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and other services including family clinics, home care and hospice services, and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.

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