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A comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program is highly beneficial for people who have experienced a cardiac event, such as a heart attack or bypass surgery, says Murray Low, EdD, FAACVPR, FACSM, president-elect of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
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OhioHealth Cancer Services in Columbus is building a navigator program called CancerConnections. The purpose of the program is to educate and support cancer patients, intervening as close to their diagnosis as possible.
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CIGNA and Dartmouth-Hitchcock have joined forces to improve care coordination and quality of care for patients through a "patient-centered medical home" pilot project.
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The collaboration between a commercial health plan and a physician group practice will be able to promote optimal care for patients because the partners have a different focus and outlook, says Barbara Walters, DO, senior medical director for Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
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Although research shows that cardiac rehabilitation programs, also known as secondary prevention programs, help improve the health and life expectancy of people with heart conditions, the referral rate is low.
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A new set of performance measures to increase patient enrollment in cardiac rehabilitation programs and set standards of excellence for program operation were released in 2007.
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An important element of the Cancer Connections program at OhioHealth Cancer Services in Columbus is a tool to measure patient acuity.
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When behavioral health patients who have been hospitalized receive interventions in their home, their compliance with treatment recommendations increases and hospital readmission drops, a study by PsycHealth Ltd.'s Home Intervention Program has found.
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