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In the News: Hospitals Try Glucose Monitors to Reduce Contact With Covid-19 Patients

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Many hospitals are beginning to use remote readings via CGM to monitor blood glucose levels for Covid-19 patients with diabetes. Through the resulting reduced clinician contact, this is helping to curb virus transmission and to preserve scarce protective gear. The entire article can be found in the Wall Street Journal. By using CGM, manual finger-stick or blood draw methods performed by nurses in patients' rooms can be cut back dramatically.

This month, the FDA told DexCom and Abbott Laboratories that they could provide their remote continuous glucose monitors to hospitals to support care of Covid-19 patients. Previously, the companies didn’t ship them to hospitals because they weren’t FDA-approved for inpatient use, though doctors had discretion to allow patients who already had them to continue using them.

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Healthy Living Medical Supply's Commitment to Patient Safety during COVID-19

Dear Healthy Living Medical Supply customers,

First, as always, we would like to express how grateful we are for all of you. This is a very uncertain time with many questions. In the midst of this, our hearts go out to the many people and businesses who have been impacted by the COVID-19 virus.

During this difficult time, we believe it is our duty to promote health and safety among the community at large, and especially within our customer, provider, supplier, and employee communities. As always, our goal is to provide diabetes supplies and technologies with a premier customer service experience, so you always have the supplies you need, when you need them.

Healthy Living is working hard to ensure that our level of customer care can be maintained, and you can continue to receive your supplies on time. Some steps we are taking include setting up systems for employees to work from home and obtaining additional inventory, over and above our usual, to ensure that we can take care of our customers, even if supply chains are disturbed due to the impact of the virus. Know that you may experience a slightly longer wait time than normal when calling in, and please rest assured that voicemails will be tended to in a timely manner. Remember, you can always text us at 248-577-9903 for a live agent. Overall, we want to reassure you of Healthy Living's service resilience during this time.

We hope that you can be encouraged, knowing that we are doing everything in our power to be prepared and continue to give you the service you deserve, and have come to expect, from Healthy Living Medical Supply.

Warm regards,

Cliff Grabowski
President, Healthy Living Medical Supply