Nightingales Home Healthcare partners with MedPlus for medication management

Bangalore, April 18, 2015: Nightingales Home Healthcare, a unit of Medwell Ventures (http://nightingales.in/) – the pioneer of specialty home healthcare in India has taken another important step to provide convenience and efficiency to its subscribers. The company today announced its partnership with MedPlus, the leading pharmacy retail chain in India. Through this unique association, Nightingales customers can avail the services of Medplus for their ongoing needs of medication, being assured of stringent quality conditions, efficacy and efficiency of delivery through their wide network.

This first of its kind partnership between a home healthcare provider and Pharmacy chain shows the growing ecosystem of partnerships for customer centric healthcare delivery.MedPlus has a network of 1244 pharmacies across India and is the fastest growing chain of retail pharmacy in the country. Nightingales is currently present in Bangalore and Hyderabad and is on the path to create a pan India network of specialty home healthcare delivery. It currently has 9000 subscribers and currently provides 54,750 bedside nursing days besides home visits by doctors and multidisciplinary rehab specialists.

With the rising tide of chronic disease conditions in India particularly in the area of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pulmonary disorders, Neurological ailments,Diabetes and Arthiritis has necessitated that patients are on consistent and long term medication support. Patients suffering from these chronic diseases need to procure and maintain a regular supply of the drugs prescribed by their doctors where consistency of molecule and quality is of foremost importance. Under the new partnership, Nightingales has added a feather to its specialized home care services by making prescription medicines as well as IV fluids from MedPlus, available to their patients at their homes. Since Nightingales provides specialty home healthcare services in chronic diseases through its care plans a consistent high quality availability of medications becomes important for good clinical outcomes of its patients.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Lalit Pai, CEO, Nightingales Home Healthcare said,”At Nightingales Home Healthcare, our objective is to create an ecosystem of partners and associations with which we can provide the best specialized care at home. As a specialty home healthcare provider in chronic diseases we were looking at the right partner which will not only have the inventory of medications but will also have an efficient logistics network to supply them to at our patients homes. In Medplus we have the right national partner “

Commenting on the partnership, Madhukar Gangadi, Chief Executive Officer of MedPlus, said“Our presence across 12 states through 1,244 pharmacy retail stores will ensure that we reach out to Nightingales patients and their families through our robust network. We are taking a giant stride towards delivering quality products to the customer’s doorstep. We would also be delivering the medicines home through our online gateway www.medplusmart.com and medicine administration will be managed by Nightingales. ”

All offers on MedPlus products would also be available for Nightingales patients. 
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