| Durable Medical Equipment is special equipment | | | | monetar y statistics are only one reason to increase |
| prescribed by physicians for home use that provides | | | | home care. Technological medical advances allow |
| therapeutic benefits or helps patients per form tasks | | | | more procedures to be accomplished in outpatient or |
| they would otherwise not be able to accomplish. This | | | | home care environments. Shor ter required hospital |
| special equipment is designed to withstand repeated | | | | stays means more recover y and rehabilitation occurs |
| use, appropriate for home use and prescribed by a | | | | in homes. |
| physician as medically necessary. | | | | Durable Medical Equipment such as canes, crutches |
| Not only does Durable Medical Equipment facilitate | | | | and walkers are prescribed for patients who need |
| ordinary daily activities and improves the quality of life | | | | mobility assistance for daily activities, but who are not |
| for the patient, it also enables patients to return to the | | | | as incapacitated as those needing wheelchairs. "Many |
| comfor t of home with the highest level of achievable | | | | physicians prescribe DME for use during shor t-term |
| independence. | | | | injury, post-operative recover y or for chronic and |
| Durable Medical Equipment product specialists are | | | | intermittent conditions", stated Dave Boyer Regional |
| highly trained and have experience in helping individuals, | | | | manager of Affinity Medical Group. |
| caregivers and health care facilities select the most | | | | "Our staff helps multiple patients in Salt Lake and |
| appropriate Durable Medical Equipment products for | | | | across the Wasatch front with ver tigo, ar thritis, |
| you or your loved ones needs. | | | | stroke and or thopedic injuries. We pride ourselves on |
| Hospital costs for the same treatment for illness, injury | | | | customer service to both the prescribing physicians |
| and chronic conditions range from 200-7000 percent | | | | and patients. |
| more than for home care. However, the shocking | | | | |