What is it all about?
This five-week program involves skilled nurses, home health aides, physical therapists, medical social workers, and registered dietitians. Together they ensure clients are fully educated about their disease and become independent.

Who is eligible?
Any CHF client is eligible for the program. Clients can be referred through a physician's office, emergency department, rehabilitation unit, extended care, or after being discharged from an acute care facility.

What does the program include?
The CHF program promotes independence and self-monitoring through instruction in:

• Medication management
• Dietary compliance
• Early recognition and intervention with onset of acute symptoms
• Disease process and treatment building
• Energy conservation techniques
• Resources to support psychosocial and financial needs
• Home adaptation

How does the patient benefit?
With this approach, there are many benefits. These include:

• Gaining independence and confidence with self-managing their disease
• Utilization of a variety of services with a holistic approach
• A sense of managing the disease instead of the disease managing their life
• Improved outcome levels compared to traditional approaches
• Receiving care at home instead of in the hospital setting
• Individualized care plans
• Involvement of family members
• More cost effective than ER visits and facility stays.

How does the physician benefit?
​Knowing you make a difference in a client's life is the biggest benefit in healthcare. However, this is not the only benefit this program provides. Others include:

• Disease specific program tailored to your patients individual needs
• Early intervention with appropriate resources
• Less office/physician time with increased patient knowledge and independence
• Care continuity by releasing discharged patients into an established home health case management

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