Chronic Lung Disease
Our Chronic lung disease Program offers:
- A team approach of nurses, therapists to help you manage your care
- Self-monitoring tools at no cost to the patient
- Care focused on teaching self-management of lung disease
Understanding Self management through Learning:
- Reducing lung irritants
- Administering medications Most effectively
- Medication management
- Stop Smoking
- Exercise
- Doctor follow-ups
- Responding to signs of worsening symptoms
Self-management tools Provided at NO cost to Patient
- Incentive Spirometer
- Peak Flow Meter or Inhaler Spacer
- Pillbox
- Exercise peddler
- Self-care handbook
The most common lung diseases include:
- Asthma
- Chronic bronchitis
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Emphysema
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis
Other lung diseases include:
- Asbestosis
- Aspergilloma
- Aspergillosis
- Aspergillosis - acute invasive
- Atelectasis
- Eosinophilic pneumonia
- Lung cancer
- Metastatic lung cancer
- Necrotizing pneumonia
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumocystosis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia in immunodeficient patient
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary actinomycosis
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Pulmonary anthrax
- Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary embolus
- Pulmonary histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma)
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary nocardiosis
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
- Rheumatoid lung disease
Contact us to set up a complimentary visit by a Registered Nurse to discuss your care needs.
The cost of this service may be covered by your insurance or a custom payment plan that can be catered to fit your needs.
