Heart
Failure Disease Management Program
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
The Heart Failure Disease Management
Program provides comprehensive care to help you manage your heart failure
condition and control symptoms.
What makes the Heart
Failure Disease Management Program unique?
Dr. James Young, Linda Kelly, APRN, BC, MSN, and Patient
Cleveland Clinic Heart Failure Disease Management Program
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The Cleveland Clinic Heart Failure Disease Management Program understands heart failure and heart failure treatment. A certified nurse practitioner provides direct care and coordinates heart failure treatment with your Cleveland Clinic physician. In this program, we will:
- Ensure that your condition
is fully diagnosed
- See that the treatment
and medication plan are appropriate to your specific condition, according
to national heart failure treatment guidelines
- Improve and maintain your
optimum quality of life, and minimize the need for hospitalization and
emergency department care
- Help with lifestyle changes
to understand and mange your condition
- Ensure that heart failure
management blends with management of other health conditions
- Provide answers to your
questions and provide heart failure management advice 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
What does the Heart
Failure Disease Management Program Offer?
- Complete cardiac
assessment and treatment adjustments to assure optimum cardiac function
and relieve or prevent symptoms
- Lab assessment
- Expert evaluation
of factors that may worsen or magnify your condition
- Expert recommendation
on changes in lifestyle, education and individual need to more effectively
manage symptoms and prevent hospitalization
- An educational
book on heart failure will be provided to you, with materials on identifying
the signs that determine when to visit your physician or seek emergency
care; medication; salt intake reduction; dealing with stress and depression;
weight management to prevent congestion and swelling; and information
about routine tests and treatments. These materials will help you learn
more about your condition and will help you better mange your condition
at home
- Routine follow-up
telephone calls, even if you do not have symptoms and do not need an
office visit
- Support group,
Nutrition Services, Social Work and Cardiac Rehabilitation Program services
- 24 hour-a-day,
7 days-a-week management advice available to answer your questions
- Access to other
heart failure programs and services, such as a Heart Failure Home Care
Program, Palliative Care Heart Failure Program, or our Heart Failure
Research Program.
Where is the program
located?
The Heart Failure
Disease Management Program is located at the Cleveland Clinic's main campus,
Cardiovascular Medicine Department (Desk F25).
How do you get into
the program?
Ask your Cleveland Clinic
doctor. If you do not have a Cleveland Clinic doctor, we can provide you
with an internist or cardiologist (heart failure specialist) to get you
started.
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