How ICU Care at Home is Better Than Hospital Facilities?

We found Nurse Jeesha to be competent dedicated and with a friendly and adjustable disposition. We would highly recommend her.

Reba Mukherjee
Good morning Joji. We would like to share extremely positive feedback regarding Abhijit with you. He was phenomenal! Please consider making him a permanent staff with Portea. Respectful, kind, considerate, always with dad, never complained, clean, polite. Thank you for selecting him as a replacement for Bijish for last month. With all our best wishes to you & your team at Portea, Venkatachalam Iyer

Mr. V V Venkatachalam
First of all I would like to thank you with all my heart for the nursing care you provided me that I could ever imagine during this difficult time.
Thank you for putting yourself on the front line and helping me with my condition.
Your compassion,hard work and kindness do not go unnoticed.Its all because of the doctors/nurses like you we live in a happier and healthier world.
Keep up the good work by making this world a better place to live
Thank you

Apeksha Pandey
I would like to thank you for the nursing services arranged during the last 10 days. Appreciate your help. I would like to mention Antony (Nursing co-coordinator) for the excellent support and help.

Anjan Kumar
Hope you’re well and following al necessary precautions in these uncertain times. Stay safe!

I wanted to send this note earlier but with the current situation and lockdown I’ve not been able to do so. My apologies for that.

After 3 to 4 months of critical care, my father in law passed away earlier this month. We as a family are extremely thankful to the nursing staff who were with him throughout and did everything possible to make him feel comfortable and cared for.

We did hit a rough patch at the start but your intervention helped a lot and we’ve not had to worry about quality thereafter.

While there were quite a few staff members who were involved (Laxman, Monto, Ebby) and very good at their work, in particular we have a deep sense of gratitude for Mr. Jabin who has consistently been with him from day one. Mr. Jabin was assigned to take care of my father in law while he was still in hospital and he took all efforts to match the quality of care just as they were doing in the hospital. Till the last moment, he was there with our family and has gone above and beyond his duties. It was extremely touching to see how he developed a bond with his patient and would care for him as one of his own. The more I say is less when it comes to Jabin and the way he has taken care of him is exemplary.

We are very thankful to the entire Portia team. Your services are a blessing for families that are need of critical care in a home setup.

We wish you luck

C Gopinath
I would like to appreciate the support provided by the Portea Luckow team during this crisis time.
I have been taking services from your organization for almost over a year now, have faced few minor issues earlier but the kind of support the team provided in this testing time when the whole medical support is closed is exceptional and laudable.
My father was admitted in hospital on 20th March and was in ICU and was forcibly discharged on 25th March while being monitored in ICU. I was not getting any support from any of the hospital then I called Rakshit for help. He immediately arranged for a 24 hrs nurse assistant at home. He gave me confidence to overcome the change of managing my father at home. He has been in constant touch with me providing help, guidance and facilitating medical supplies at home. Looking at the criticality of the patient he made a home visit and took cognizance of things , guided the NA asked him to take proper care and even help my mother in home care also.

The efforts your Lucknow team put in to support the patient at home is highly commendable.
Thank you so much for helping me out during these very difficult times. Your help has been invaluable to me, and I don’t know how I would have managed without your help and support. Again, thank you so much. I sincerely appreciate your generosity.

R N Singh
write this note as I still grieve the loss of my dear mama. I would like to thank you who personally ensured she had the care required in the last 2 months of her life.
Pushpa, is a well-skilled attendant, the staff that substituted for her too had a great kind attitude to my mother, and this I appreciated very much. The physiotherapists had rehabilitated her well, given her condition as well.
You run a good service for the sick and/or dying and God Bless you and Portea for the help and unwavering support provided to me and my mother.
I would recommend your services without hesitation.

Many thanks and best regards,

Mrs Denise Ireland
I take this valuable opportunity to thank your team from Portea, for supporting us during a very critical time with a very professional nursing service to suit our needs. I would like to thank all the sisters, with a special mention of Miss.R.Ranjitha and coordinator Mr.Immanuel, who were our rock solid support with their dedicated nursing care.
Thank u Portea.

Meenakshi Vaidyanathan
Their services were very competent and their staff –provided consistent and excellent services over this period.
We are grateful to them and would like to wish Portea success in continuing to provide excellent services.

S Sundaram
Thank you for the gift given to us on your Customer Day celebration. We would like to record our appreciation for the services rendered by your staff Coordinator Ms Yasodha, Patient attendees Mr. Murugesan, have been very attentive to our needs and thanks for the services.

T.E.Degaleesan

How ICU Care at Home Is Better Than in Hospitals?

Various medical innovations have improved the healthcare industry in the recent past and this had led to superior independence and care quality level for patients, both at the hospital/clinic and at home. The innovations and advancements have fuelled the adoption, creation and development of the latest healthcare delivery systems. Latest critical care unit models empowered by interventions based on technology enable quicker, easier and more effective monitoring and treatment.

At Home ICU Care Vs. Hospital ICU Facilities

In the recent past, there has been huge intensive care medicine growth in the country. Intensive therapy results have been continuously enhancing, in spite of the variations in the use of resources, processes, consumables, drugs and techniques in various ICUs. Whilst disease outcomes are easy to account for, ICU outcomes aren’t that simple to grasp and account for, due to the nature of these units and the approach used in India for intensive care.

ICU care is varied across the nation. Access to skilled ICU consultants [intensivists] and nurses is a chief reason for the variation in the care quality delivered. Various ICU models based on the management and contribution of an intensivist are there. The ICUs go by labels like semi-closed, closed and open ICU. India has more number of open intensive care units, less semi-closed ICUs and even less closed ones. Once the patient has recovered from the ICU, they frequently end up requiring supportive care in various forms including nutritional support, physiotherapy, and respiratory support using portable ventilators. In these cases owing to a shortage of transitional care facilities, the patients start to occupy ICU beds and therefore aren’t able to profit from the helpful features of transitional care. There’s a chance that the patient might be exposed to several risks when they stay in the ICU for a prolonged time.

Average stay length is a great measure to comprehend the impact on ICU usage. Drawn-out ICU stay can at times badly affect the general health status of the patient by enhancing the risk of complications, infections, and perhaps, mortality. From the operation viewpoint, it has an impact on ICU bed availability and might result in the termination of optional surgeries and cause long waiting times. The drawn-out stay of the patient takes up a considerable amount of ICU resources and there’s a requirement to recognize the ways using which the ICU resources can be properly used and boost ICU room care efficiency.

Other Intensive Care Models

Transitional care facilities such as skilled nursing facilities, long term acute care hospitals, provide specialized programs and personalized sustained care for patients who happen to have several co-morbidities. These facilities are not accessible in India at the moment. Establishing the time-consuming and expensive infrastructure to build an LTAC network nationwide in a diverse and large country such as India is quite a challenge. With the help of technology, connected devices and remote monitoring, ICU care at home is possible too. For a patient who requires long-term care or is confined to their bed chronically [post-surgery owing to neurological/respiratory ailment, holistic care might be offered by a multi-disciplinary squad with remote monitoring by experts. The devices can help monitor the signs, symptoms and various other parameters. Besides live video streaming, the squad can help with connected, complete, and efficient care to the patient. Additionally, the family of the patient can be engaged in the patient care which improves the experience further.

Benefits of ICU Care at Home

Smartly designed home care models can help caregivers, patients, and payers in several ways. A common situation in the majority of ICUs is when a patient is no longer in the severe phase of their ailment but isn’t entirely ready for discharge.

Home ICU setup has the potential to lessen the stay length in the clinic/hospital for the patient and lower hospital-related problems. The recovery of the patient might be delayed since it potentially enhances the risk of getting nosocomial infections, so it becomes important to choose the best home ICU care provider. It is also beneficial for people with mental health issues. For payers, there’s the cost-benefit. For healthcare personnel and facilities, more patients can now be admitted and taken care of in the ICU with the resources available.

Home-based ICU care positions the patient at the pivot of care effectively compared to hospital ICU care. As long as clinical excellence and safety are properly addressed, it is difficult to imagine a superior location for patient-centric and integrated care than the home of the patient. As infrastructure and ideas get better, there will be very few reasons to get care in pricey and potentially unsafe settings.

How to Get Reliable ICU Homecare

The challenge here is to build an ecosystem that people can trust. This includes a firmly-knit relationship between healthcare personnel, technology provider, and regulatory bodies. The in-home trained ICU attendant service offered by Portea offers holistic support at home. The ICU nurses or caregivers look after the daily activities of the patient. They assist with personal grooming, feeding, movement, and light housekeeping. They are also trained to examine general health by frequently measuring basic vitals like blood pressure, heart rate, etc.