Improved Functional Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients
South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
This project was entered in the 2007 NSW Health Awards, Making Prevention Everybody's Business category.
Contact: Michelle Grant
Abstract
Activity data collected in 2001 demonstrated that no patients were able to attend Heart Failure Rehabilitation. By 2006 53.6% of eligible heart failure patients attended the exercise rehabilitation program with the Sutherland Heart and Lung Health Team (SHALT). All enrolled heart failure patients are now provided with a range of exercise services generating over 5000 occasions of service per year. They are offered a supervised progression from the disease specific introductory rehabilitation program through to the hospital based maintenance program and then onto individual community exercise programs to meet current community expectation. The success of this strategy has been established by monitoring attendance and activity date and demonstrating maintenance in the community of the functional capacity improvements achieved with the hospital based program.
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