Anyone who has taken care of someone really sick at home knows how difficult and stressful it is. Yet care at home is what most people with serious illness want. Too often, they don’t know that’s possible and don’t know where to turn. I wish more people caring for a critically ill person knew, that rather than asking advice of doctors or friends or searching for advice online, they only had to make ONE phone call to get immediate world class ‘in home’ help regardless of where they live in the U.S. and regardless of their ability to pay. Seriously.
And as serious illnesses go, heart disease and heart failure are at the top of the list. Heart disease is the silent pandemic that affects every American family. Unlike Covid it is never going to end. 1 in 3 Americans have heart disease and 1 in 4 eventually die of it. My own fabulous father was one of those people. He passed away soon after I returned home from college from heart failure at the age of 55. I remember the stress and pain my Mother and brothers and I went through watching him suffer. Heart failure takes hearts and breaks a lot of hearts like mine.
Though Covid has consumed our attention this past year you should know that heart failure is still the number one cause of death and the leading cause of hospitalization. “Tens of thousands of heart failure patients wind up dying alone in a hospital room or ICU”, says Steve Cone, Chief of Communications, Marketing and Philanthropy of Capital Caring Health. “Many of those hospital stays could have been prevented and many of those patients could have lived longer and better lives through palliative /advanced illness and hospice care delivered directly to where they live, be it their home or a family members home or in an assisted living facility. In-home care, so patients don’t have to be rushed to the hospital and caregivers don’t have to call 911 and people don’t have to end up dying by themselves.”
Capital Caring Health is one of the largest not-for-profit hospice and advanced illness care providers in the nation are also a leading provider of in home advanced cardiac care. Their highly respected President and CEO Tom Koutsoumpas, came up with this national advanced cardiac home care initiative and led the charge to get 70+ other not-for-profit hospice and advanced illness providers who offer at-home care in communities nationwide to join him.
The organization they formed is called ‘National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation‘ (NPHI) and Tom serves as it’s CEO. In collaboration with the American Heart Association they have created a program to support the home care of patients with cardiac disease. They’ve made a national toll free hotline available to help families find a care provider near them, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Families in need of hospice or care for an advanced illness can call to find a care provider near them. Their mission is to ensure you and your family are well supported and informed so symptoms can be managed under their care with you safely at home.
NEED HELP CALL THE TOLL FREE HOTLINE: 1-844-GET-NPHI (1-844-438-6744)
(NPHI) National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation
The joint mission prioritizes patients and not profits. Thus, regardless of ability to pay — they turn no patient and their family away. Ever.
NPHI and the American Heart Association also jointly released a Free Advanced Cardiac Care Patient and Caregiver Handbook. They believe every family in America should have a copy and provide the handbook at no cost on their respective websites
People in the heart business with heart!
Doing my part to share this important information to families and caregivers who may need it and also to share the enlightening conversation I had with Steve Cone of Capital Caring Health.
Please share this information with anyone you may know who needs it.
Thank You,
Debbie
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