Mended Hearts has been collaborating with multiple stake holders as a part of a broad coalition to reduce the burden of Heat Failure. We are proud to announce our Patient Empowerment Tool has been expanded to include caring for your heart failure during COVID-19 and beyond.
Taking Control of Your Heart Failure:
Life After a Heart Failure Hospitalization
Objective:
- The Patient Empowerment Tool designed for HF patients, highlights several key rights patients should know and offers high level guidance to support self-care management and empowerment upon hospital discharge.
Patient-Empowerment-Tool Brochure+Resources
Significance:
- Heart failure is a chronic, lifelong condition. But you can life a full and active life with the right medical treatment, follow-up, and the attention you pay to your diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
- Becoming an “empowered” patient requires understanding heart failure, recognizing and monitoring changes in your symptoms, engaging in self-care, and creating a partnership with your health care team and heart failure provider.
Feeling “empowered” in your care, may mean fewer symptoms, better quality of life, and fewer delays in the hospital because of a worsening condition.
Patient Empowerment Tool COVID-19 Addendum
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