Heart failure is the most common reason for hospitalization among adults over the age of 65. Medicare spends $39 billion annually on Congestive Heart Failure because 20-50% of heart failure patients have readmissions to the hospital between 14 days and 6 months from initial diagnosis.

Harbor Home Health nurses and therapists can help you control your disease process and keep you home and out of the hospital by:

• Tele-Health Monitoring (Click for more)
• Medication education and compliance with Blood Pressure Monitoring
• Improve activity levels with theraphy
• Heart healthy nutrition education
• Smoking cessation
• Stress management
• Weight management and monitoring

You can help this process by making sure you:

• Take all medications as prescribed
• Keep all medical appointments
• Maintain a heart healthy diet
• Exercise regularly