Long Term Care facilities
Multiple residents at your facility may require oxygen for their daily activities. To support you and your resident's needs, we offer a reliable supply of oxygen and various modalities to facilities across the country.
VitalAire is a leader in working with residential facilities, providing residents with long term oxygen therapy effectively and with minimal effort of facility staff.
Oxygen therapy is known to help residents move more easily around your facility, improve their quality and length of life1,2, and reduce depression and unhappiness. 3,4
We are available 24/7
Our support lines are active all day, every day. We are also ready to deliver emergency oxygen at all hours of the day.
Helping you reduce hospitalizations
VitalAire’s goal is to help you reduce the number of hospitalizations due to acute COPD exacerbations out of your long term care facility.
These hospitalizations are costly and highly unpleasant for residents, who become exposed to dangerous viral and bacterial infections at the hospital.
Long term oxygen therapy helps reduce hospitalization days by 38.5%, especially among COPD patients who begin their long term oxygen therapy as outpatients. 4
We carry all the leading oxygen delivery systems on the market, and have highly specialized staff, so we can find the solution that is right for your resident and your facility.
Assessment services for your residents
Our registered respiratory therapists and registered nurses can help assess your residents for their oxygen therapy needs by providing oximetry at rest, with exercise or nocturnally.
Our registered respiratory therapists and registered nurses can help assess your residents for their oxygen therapy needs by providing oximetry at rest, with exercise or nocturnally.
Regular visits to your facility
We often have multiple patients at each residential location, so we regularly visit your facility to follow-up on your patients’ oxygen therapy, supply oxygen equipment and accessories and provide support to your team when needed.
At the beginning of our collaboration we create a team specially dedicated to your facility - so you are always working with the same therapists and drivers. We notify you whenever one of them visits the facility.
Better clinical results for your residents
- Our dedicated staff communicates with healthcare teams openly and proactively, whether it is nursing staff, a physician, or members of a patient’s family
- We provide the facility and physicians with written clinical assessments of the patient, complying with the facility’s charting requirements
References:
- A Clinical Trial. Continuous or Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy in Hypoxemic Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – Annals of Internal Medicine 1980; 93: 391 – 398.
- Report from the Medical Research Council Working Party. Long Term Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy In Chronic Hypoxic Cor Pulmonale Complicating Chronic Bronchitis And Emphysema. The Lancet; March 1981, 681 – 686.
- Petty T, et al. Supportive Therapy in COPD. Chest 1998;113;256S-262S.
- Cottrell J, et al. Home Oxygen Therapy : A Comparison of 2- vs 6-Month Patient Reevaluation. Chest 1995;107;358-361.
- Ringbaek TJ, et al. Does long-term oxygen therapy reduce hospitalisation in hypoxaemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Eur Respir J 2002; 20: 38–42.