CVHC Specialty Programs
- Heart Failure Management: Eliminate or greatly reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits for the HF patient.
Treatment and follow-up is provided in the home by experienced ICU/CCU cardiac RNs. Includes disease and lifestyle change
education to high-tech dobutamine infusions.
- Anticoagulation Program: Reduces risks and increases positive outcomes. Anticoagulated patients on service can be
regulated utilizing the CVHC Anticoagulation Routine Order Set and state of the art bedside testing and tracking.
Precise anticoagulation flow records are faxed to the physician's office within minutes of testing/titration.
- Early Hospital Release for DVT: Can save 1-5 hospital days. Specialized home care program enables patients to
receive heparin injections for their uncomplicated DVT in the home setting and be transitioned to Coumadin at
the same time. Patients can save 1-5 hospital days, or may receive all of their treatment at home, avoiding hospitalization completely.
- Specialized Drug Therapies: Protocols for home monitoring and titration; side effect monitoring and
intervention; EKG/patient response reported to physician; improved patient outcomes; onsite EKG, SaO2, CXR, INR testing;
comorbidity monitoring and intervention.
Ancillary Services
- Home health aide
- Medical social worker
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Speech therapist
- Medical equipment and supplies
"Each patient's doctor sees me as a care partner now, and I finally feel like my experience and skills are respected."
