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Questions:

1. 

Why utilize Secure Care's home care services?

   

2. 

What is the experience level of Secure Care Monitor Center nurses?

   

3. 

Will you call the physician or will you call our agency and let us call the physician with a report on our patients?

   

4. 

Do you provide daily/weekly reports to the agency regarding our patients?

   

5. 

How often are patient's monitor strips interpreted?

   

6. 

How often are patients contacted?

   

7. 

Is your monitor center staffed 24 hours per day?

   

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Do you have a back up monitor for emergency problems (ie. power failure and/or down phone lines)?

   

9. 

What kind of equipment do you have?

   

10. 

Is there reimbursement for home uterine monitors and home glucose monitors?

   

11. 

Are you available to help us get our program started?

   

12. 

How do we generate revenue from home monitors?

   

13. 

Can we have our own monitor center?
 

 

Answers:
1. Why utilize Secure Care's home care services?
  Secure Care offers an alternative to lengthy hospitalizations and provides management of high-risk pregnancies in a less cost intensive environment. As perinatal health care continues to change and hospital admissions are limited to the acutely ill, cost conscious health care providers and consumers are in need of quality, client focused outpatient programs. With Secure Care's extensive education and clinical background, it has developed an innovative approach to meet these needs.

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2. What is the experience level of Secure Care Monitor Center nurses?
 

Minimum 5 years labor and delivery; average at this time is 20 years labor and delivery experience at the Secure Care Monitor Center. The diabetic educator staff includes Certified registered nurses with obstetrical nursing experience.

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3. Will you call the physician or will you call our agency and let us call the physician with a report on our patients?
  It is your decision how reports to physicians are handled.

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4. Do you provide daily/weekly reports to the agency regarding our patients?
 

Weekly reports are routinely sent to the agency to allow you to send reports to physicians. You may call the monitor center daily to receive report on patient(s) condition.

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5. How often are patient's monitor strips interpreted?
 

Routine is twice per day A.M & P.M. If the patient has problems between monitor sessions, she calls the monitor center for further intervention(s).

Diabetic patients download glucometer data once daily.

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6. How often are patients contacted?
  Once daily after A.M scheduled strip and after P.M strip if uterine contractions are over baseline and/or increased uterine irritability is present. Diabetic glucose monitor patients are contacted daily.

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7. Is your monitor center staffed 24 hours per day?
  YES - The monitor center is staffed 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.

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8. Do you have a back up monitor for emergency problems (ie. power failure and/or down phone lines)?
  YES - Secure Care Monitor Center has 2 back up centers.

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9. What kind of equipment do you have?
  We offer Spacelabs Medical® uterine monitors and fetal monitors.

We offer Roche® diabetic testing supplies.

We offer Medtronic MiniMed® products.

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10. Is there reimbursement for home uterine monitors and home glucose monitors?
  YES - Nearly all third party payers recognize the benefit of managing high-risk pregancies. Precertification should be performed on a case by case basis.

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11. Are you available to help us get our program started?
  YES - Secure Care has several options available which provides support to your organization for marketing, clinical orientation, resource manuals, and reimbursement issues.

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12. How do we generate revenue from home monitors?
  By marketing perinatal services to local physicians, hospitals and managed care organizations.

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13. Can we have our own monitor center?
  YES - Secure Care provides full time, part time and back up monitoring services.

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