COPD
The acronym COPD stands for this.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
Diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot make enough, or the body is unable to use this correctly.
What is insulin?
Heart failure is the most common diagnosis for this.
What is hospital discharge?
This assessment measures how long it takes a patient to get up from a chair, walk 10 feet away and return to the chair.
What is the TUG test?
(Time Up and Go)
There is a 25% chance of people who have recovered from a stroke having this within 5 years.
What is another stroke?
This allows us to obtain specific physician preferences and allows for timely intervention and patient education to prevent hospitalization.
What is the COPD protocol?
Blood sugar management consists of managing medications, diet, and this.
What is exercise?
These are utilized by clinicians to teach patients how to self-manage their disease, which improves their health and reduces the risk of hospitalizations.
What are Zone Tools?
This marketing tool helps referral sources identify patients at increased risk for falls.
What is the Fall Risk Self-Assessment?
Following a stroke, a patient may be on these types of medications, which increases their risk of bleeding.
What are anticoagulants?
Enhabit clinicians use incentive spirometry and this type of trainer to increase lung capacity and prevent pneumonia.
Enhabit clinicians monitor these at every diabetic patient visit.
What are feet?
This must be entered into the patient's chart, in order to pull the cardiopulmonary report card.
What is the SP-CHF care type?
This evidence-based program is proven to reduce falls by 35-40%.
What is the OTAGO exercise program?
What is F.A.S.T?
Breathing exercises like diaphgragmatic breathing and pursed lip breathing are illustrated with videos in the patient education book using these.
What are QR codes.
The Diabetes program education book teaches patients and caregivers how to monitor for the signs of blood sugar getting too high and too low-also known as this.
What is hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia?
All Enhabit clinicians are trained to closely monitor heart failure symptoms such as: weight, dyspnea scale, O2 saturations, edema, and this other important assessment.
What are heart and lung sounds?
(Did You Know?)
Inpatient rehab facilities, skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospitals, physicians/mid-level practitioners/specialists, and this other referral source are all appropriate to market fall prevention to.
What are ALFs/ILFs?
This useful tool is available for some sales team members to utilize when a medically complex stroke patient is discharging from hospital to home.
What is the CTC Stroke Checklist?
Because COPD can not be cured, we teach patients how to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life by doing this.
What is self management?
Patients with Type 2 Diabetes without this lab in the 90 days prior to home health start of care, will need it added to their plan of care.
What is HbA1c?
(Did you know?)
Teaching patients how to read food labels helps them get their necessary caloric intake and reduce this particular mineral that can increase fluid retention.
What is sodium?
Falls are the most common cause of these type of injuries.
What are brain injuries?
Speech language pathologists are instrumental in caring for patients after a stroke that have this condition that causes problems with feeding, chewing, and/or swallowing.
What is dysphagia?