Heart Failure Disease Management

Teaming with Celtic Healthcare for Heart Failure Disease Management

Any healthcare professional knows how great a need today’s healthcare arena has in regard to heart disease education and care – and physicians can’t do it alone. Unless a heart disease patient experiences a critical or significantly life-threatening health problem, the patient spends most of their time outside of a hospital or a physician’s direct care.

How do we tackle this problem when a heart disease patient spends a lot of their time at home?

One effective way to start the process toward heightened awareness and self-care: Celtic Healthcare’s Heart Failure Disease Management Program. Our Heart Failure Disease Management Program is a patient-centric, multidisciplinary approach to reducing avoidable re-hospitalization, including reducing 30-day hospital readmission rates and promoting patient self-management.

As a physician or hospitalist, it is imperative to team with Celtic Healthcare at the point that a hospitalized patient with heart failure is identified as a candidate for possible discharge in order to formulate effective, patient-centric goals.

What are the benefits for the patient? Implementing Celtic Healthcare’s Heart Failure Disease Management Program into a patient’s care plan empowers the patient. It teaches the patient vital self-management tools to have control over their own condition. By increasing the patient’s knowledge over their own signs and symptoms, early steps can be taken to reduce major problems and health issues. Celtic Healthcare’s step-by-step program focuses on preventative and proactive measures, such as instructions on diets and nutrition, knowledge of signs and symptoms, proper medication management, exercise and fitness tips and assistance, and poor health habit elimination.

Celtic Healthcare’s effective Heart Failure Disease Management Program focuses on the needs of heart failure patients across the full healthcare continuum and provides programs such as the Rapid Response Team and Smoking Cessation Counseling.

As with any homecare service we provide, our #1 goal is EXTRAordinary customer service. Celtic Healthcare’s Heart Failure Disease Management Program involves all healthcare professionals working in an integrated, team-oriented manner for the patient.

The Result:

An ultimate decrease in unnecessary re-hospitalizations, a happier, healthier patient, and a physician who teamed with the right home healthcare organization for superior patient outcomes and streamlined hassle-free care coordination that meets the needs of the most challenging patients. For more information on this unique heart disease management program and using it as a step towards lowering re-hospitalizations, please contact Celtic Healthcare by calling 1.800.355.8894.

Great news: Celtic Healthcare’s Heart Failure Disease Management Program uses tools such as Telehealth, which enables delivery of health-related services remotely. Due to our intensive homecare strategy, in the 1st quarter of 2008, only 1 CHF patient was readmitted to the hospital. This represents a 1% re-hospitalization rate, which is unheard of in our industry! In the 2nd quarter of 2008, there were ZERO CFH re-hospitalizations, representing a 0% re-hospitalization rate – this is truly an unprecedented statistic!

Celtic Healthcare's extensive network of locations, including Pittsburgh, Carlisle, New Castle, Westmoreland, Youngstown, OH, and Montgomery County, MD serves clients throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland.