Wallingford’s Gaylord Specialty Health Care is instituting a new post operative care program that aims to get patients active sooner after surgery.
The new early ambulation program is being funded by a $75,000 grant from the Connecticut Health and Education Finance Authority. The grant was used to purchase transport ventilators from medical device maker Flight Medical.
The ventilators make it possible for vent-dependent patients who are bed-ridden or reliant on a wheelchair, to have the opportunity to get up, go outside for a walk, and begin the therapeutic rehabilitation process necessary for healing and independence.
Flight Medical has also chosen Gaylord as its test and research site to develop new, more sophisticated software for the portable ventilator, and a prototype ambulation walker.
