Essential Home Health Care Home Health Programs
Heart Failure Program
Everyday activities such as walking and climbing stairs can be difficult when your heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet your body’s needs. Even if they have a chronic disease like heart failure, most people prefer to live at home. Our home health care team will collaborate with your doctor to help you manage heart failure symptoms at home, allowing you to stay at home and reduce your chances of returning to the hospital.
Highlights of the Heart Failure Program
- Our heart failure patients are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital, according to outcome monitoring. They are also more likely to notice improvements in their breathing, walking, and ability to perform daily tasks.
- Our approach to care is supported by the most recent research, ensuring that you receive high-quality heart failure treatment.
- Our home health care team is comprised of a variety of professionals who can address the various ways in which heart failure affects your life.
- We provide personalized care plans based on your needs and level of functioning.
- We want you to be as self-sufficient as possible in managing your heart failure symptoms.
How Home Health Care Aids in the Treatment of Heart Failure
Essential Home Health Care offers a variety of home health care services in collaboration with your doctor. Nursing services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social work may be included. Simultaneously, we educate you so that you can manage your heart failure as independently as possible.
We empower you by doing the following:
- Informing yourself about your medications and how to manage heart failure
- Dietary and nutritional changes
- Strengthening and mobility gains
- A daily exercise regimen
- Monitoring vital signs and symptoms of heart failure
- Management of deteriorating symptoms
- Blood pressure, heart rate, and weight monitoring devices (if needed)
- Your caregiver will benefit from education so that they can be included in your heart failure treatment plan.
Our Heart Failure Patients Experience Positive Outcomes
We care about our patients and keep track of how their symptoms of heart failure improve over time. Patients in the Essential Home Health Care Heart Failure Program improved at a faster rate than the industry average in outcome monitoring. Our patients have the following advantages over those who are not enrolled in our heart failure program:
- Lower hospital readmission rates
- Improvements in movement and shortness of breath
- Improvements in breathing
- Improvements in bathing and bed transfer
- Improvements in the administration of oral medications
Heart Failure Treatment Objectives
Among the objectives of our heart failure program are the following:
- Give you the tools you need to keep track of your health and know when to seek help.
- Assist you in achieving your specific objectives
- Improve your ability to stay active
- Reduce your chances of needing to go to the hospital
- Assist you in remaining as independent as possible
- Heart failure should be treated as soon as possible
- Enhance your quality of life and help you live a longer life
Is the Heart Failure Essential Home Health Care Program Right for You?
If you’ve had any of the following symptoms, our heart failure program may be a good fit for you:
- You’ve recently been diagnosed with heart failure and/or are unfamiliar with the disease’s progression.
- You’ve recently experienced worsening heart failure symptoms.
- When you exert yourself, you experience shortness of breath, which impairs your ability to perform daily tasks.
- You’re having trouble walking or moving around, which increases your chances of falling.
- You’re having trouble comprehending and managing your heart failure medications.
- You’re having trouble making lifestyle changes that will allow you to live with heart failure.
- You are suffering from anxiety, depression, or a related condition.
Our Mission
To assist our clients in maintaining a safe and healthy home environment conductive to achieving the highest level of functional independence in the comfort of their homes.