The Apollo Hospitals Group announced the national launch of Apollo Homecare services in Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai from here on Saturday.
The healthcare major has created a separate division for Homecare services and plans to ramp up its services to 13 more cities in the next fifteen months.
The Apollo Hospitals group will leverage its domain strength to make high quality integrated healthcare accessible to the community at large and more specifically to the elderly, chronically ill patients, post-surgery recovery patients etc. They would receive personalised attention from well- trained and qualified healthcare care providers right within the comfortable environs of their homes.
With experience of over 500 plus home based care patients of diverse clinical conditions, Apollo Hospitals is geared to render homecare services in India.
Apollo Homecare services can be reached by dialling its national homecare hub number 1860-500-8585.
Dr. Prathap C Reddy, unveiled the logo and launched the “Apollo Homecare” initiative- and said Home based quality healthcare will play a very significant role in the healthcare Industry in India in this decade.
He mentioned that continuity of care is fundamental for better outcomes in healthcare-Apollo Homecare will sustain this continuum beyond the hospitals into the community through Apollo Homecare.
This actually could be transformational as it is a win-win situation for all stakeholders--it is convenient and comfortable for patients and their families; it would reduce the “Average length of stay” of the patients for hospitals and reduce the outgo for the Health Insurance companies.
He was hopeful of Health Insurance companies favourably considering reimbursement for Home based healthcare services.
Raising concern about the growing geriatric population in India, Dr Reddy emphasised that the elderly parents both the domestic and NRI dependents are the ones who need to be taken care of with utmost sensitivity and regular monitoring to avoid falls at home and also for better management of pre-existing conditions . He said remote monitoring through technology will play a significant role in home based healthcare services.