Our COPD disease
Our COPD disease management includes
- Monthly Friday morning COPD social. A 1- to 1.5-hour group education session conducted monthly- “COPD AT THE POINTE”
- The patient education sessions which include:
- General information about COPD.
- Direct observation of inhaler techniques.
- A review and adjustment of outpatient COPD medications.
- Smoking cessation counseling.
- Recommendations concerning influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations.
- Encouragement of regular exercise.
- Instruction in hand hygiene.
- You will receive an individualized written action plan.
- Patients are to be in possession of action plan medications at all times and are to have refill prescriptions immediately upon initiating the action plan, if indicated.
- Our case manager will make made monthly phone calls to you to address your COPD management.
- We encourage patients to call the case manager during regular working hours if they took action plan medications or if they visit an urgent care or emergency room or if they had questions relating to their medical care.
- 3 monthly scheduled clinic visits.