Tag: Healthcare
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Financial Considerations During the Hospital Stay
You may be wondering, “Why would I want to think about financial considerations now? I am focused on my child in the hospital. I’ll worry about that later. Financial information will just give me more stress than I already have.” That is a valid point, and you do need to focus on your son…
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The Financial Impact of CHD on Families
The financial impact on your family is probably the second-most stressful part of having a child with CHD. We make health care decisions based on what is best for our children, not what is best for our wallets, so we are often faced with intimidating medical bills after a hospital stay. This can cause…
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Medicare Guide to Heart Disease
By Danielle Kunkle Roberts The term “heart disease” encompasses a variety of conditions that can affect your heart, including coronary heart disease, muscle weakness in the wall of your heart and heart rhythm disorders. Heart disease is a leading cause of death for both men and women in America. Many factors can contribute to…
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Memories Have Value
By Robert Dacey As our daily lives become engulfed in required and complex technology, elders like me find some comfort in recalling the good ol’ days of our younger years. The aging audience for our memories keeps shrinking, yet the memories have some value as we forge into a technology-loaded future. As children growing…
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Preparing an Older Child for Heart Surgery or Cath: From the Experts
Getting through a child’s heart surgery or cardiac catheterization (cath) is hard enough when the child is little and doesn’t really understand what is happening, but preparing an older child or young adult for a major heart procedure can be difficult for parents and for the older child. Luckily, there are experts—the patients themselves…
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Medicaid Covered More Than Half the Costs to Save My Son’s Life
My son, Angus, was born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) that was repaired shortly after his birth. Approximately 40,000 babies, 1 in 110, are born with CHD each year. We learned about his heart defect at my 20-week pregnancy check-up and were immediately referred out to a pediatric cardiologist. It was devastating. I never…