Ipswich Community Health
Service Overview
Ipswich Community Health Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Service is a multidisciplinary service covering Ipswich, Boonah, Esk, Gatton and Laildley areas. We manage and support patients with heart failure, post heart attack, cardiac surgery and post arrhythmia treatment. We provide self management education, pyschological and social support, exercise gym and dietitian support and medication titration and management.
Services
Inpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
We provide initial cardiac education to all STEMI, NSTEMI, arrhythmia and patients referred for PCI or cardiac surgery with follow up in the community. The service is available Monday to Friday.
Outpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
We provide cardiac education, excercise gym programme to all STEMI, NSTEMI, arrhythmia, PCI and cardiac surgery with follow up in the community. The service is available Monday to Friday with a flexible programme for two seession a week for 6-8 weeks.
Maintenance (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
We offer a maintenance exercise programme for both cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure patients which is self directed for two sessions a week on individual patient assessment with the exercise physiologist.
Heart Failure Management What is this?
We provide self management education about heart failure management, access for patients to attend a heart failure exercise programme at the gym twice weekly for 12 weeks. Medication titration and medication safety service, psychcosocial support and dietitian support is also available.
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