What do you do when you find that more than 20% of your new admissions are for cardiac-related reasons and about 33% of your patients have cardiac disease, even if it isnt the reason for admission to home health? If you are the staff at Visiting Nurse Association of Central New York in Syracuse, you put together a special team of employees who work only with cardiac care patients and call it Heart Smart.
What do you do when you find that more than 20% of your new admissions are for cardiac-related reasons and about 33% of your patients have cardiac disease, even if it isnt the reason for admission to home health? If you are the staff at Visiting Nurse Association of Central New York in Syracuse, you put together a special team of employees who work only with cardiac care patients and call it Heart Smart.
Cardiac program helps patients and agency’s image
July 1, 2004