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>> Each patient comes with their concerns.
So it may be a concern about a family history of heart disease.
It may be a concern about wondering how to keep themselves and their family members healthy
and to reach their heart healthy goals.
So what's nice is that we provide patients with a team.
And that team can be not just their physicians and advanced nursing staff but nutritionists,
exercise physiologists, stress management, and then develop a plan
that outlines what the patient wants to do
and how to help address barriers and concerns to get there.
We work together with patients even if they've had an event.
Maybe they had a stay within our intensive care unit or if they're coming
in from another healthcare institution, and they're concerned about their history.
We're able to work with the patient to review what were their risk factors or contributors
to heart disease and list them and explain them with the patient.
And then we talk about a step-by-step approach that helps to address each risk factor
that we can in order to help reduce their risk.
What's also nice is that we're able to provide continuous follow up.
The other thing is that unfortunately if a patient hears about heart disease
or even a family member with heart disease it can come with its own stressors and concerns.
And we're able to help support them through that emotional process also.
The most I enjoy is the fact that we're able to watch them reach different milestones
as far as improving their healthcare.
And even if they may have a setback we're able to discuss it, regroup,
and then watch them improve and move on to another healthy milestone.
It's a process.
We work with them, their family, their significant others, their children,
and we're able to watch over the years as far as patients improving their health.