If you are a cardiac rehab phase 2 graduate, have an interest in learning more about cardiac rehab, want to build a community of graduates who can help to raise awareness, increase utilization and simply make the experience better for future patients.... THEN...
Healthcare continues to be in the news as we, as a nation, strive to improve care, lower cost and engage patients. I have spent the past 16 months thinking, writing, and learning about this thorny topic from 3 perspectives-- as an educator, as a newbie in the healthcar...
So you graduated cardiac rehab--- Congrats! NOW what? Did I learn enough, am I going to be alright without being monitored, can I really change my habits? We turn, in the last of this series, to some ideas on what to do post-graduation and how to thrive and be reali...
In the 4th of our series on patient ideas, I turn to think about graduation.
Graduation|Experiment(s)|Cognitive Bias(es)
GRADUATION: Ah the memories of accomplishment that graduation brings. Besides the individual feeling of accomplishment, there is also the experience...
In the 3rd in a series of blogs on how we might increase awareness and utilization for cardiac rehab, we turn to look at how to help those who have been referred, enrolled and now need to complete the prescribed number of sessions from their health team, i.e. retention...
On 2/29/2012 the discharge notes read, "We will set you up with cardiac rehab as well to help you feel safe re-instituting exercise into your daily life." This (and my appointment card) was all it took for me to enroll into cardiac rehab in April 2012.
I remember it being early spring-- around 2015... I'm sitting with a group of patients, cardiac rehab staff including exercise physiologist, interns, nurses, the program director and the topic of "the challenge to increase referral rates and enrollment rates to cardiac...
I had never been to Charleston S.C. and thanks to a great call with outgoing president of AACVPR (Tom Draper), I was on my way to learn, grow and hopefully contribute to the annual meeting.
I checked into the registration desk and was pleasantly greeted by t...
4:00 a.m. wake-up on October 11, 2017 sounded early. That said, I didn't wait for the alarm to go off as I was really excited to return to D.C. and hear more about what new initiatives were being discussed at the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative conference.
