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About SETMA - Special Services - Congestive Heart Failure Clinic
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Special Services

Through the electronic medical record, SETMA, in collaboration with the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, a national organization of the AMA, CMS (Medicare), the National Institute of Medicine and the Medial and Surgical Specialty Societies, has created a treatment and educational plan for helping you:
  • Avoid CHF if you don't have it,
  • Keep your CHF from getting worse if you do have it and
  • Help you regain as much cardiac function as is possible
If you or a loved one has CHF, you should have an evaluation by SETMA's Congestive Heart Failure Clinic. This treatment program has been described by one cardiologist as, "The most Comprehensive treatment plan for CHF, I have ever seen."

Years ago, one of the early leaders in the treatment of diabetes mellitus said, "The diabetic who knows the most about diabetes will live the longest." That is equally true of congestive heart failure (CHF). No amount of medication or treatment by a healthcare provider can benefit a person with CHF as can a patients taking of personal responsibility for their own care, which is allowed by knowledge about their illness.

Consistent with SETMA's commitment to becoming your healthcare colleague and collaborator, thereby helping you achieve the health which you have personally determined to have, and consistent with SETMA's rejection of the old-healthcare-delivery paradigm where the healthcare provider was a "constable" attempting to impose health upon you, whether you took personal responsibility for your improvement or not, SETMA's healthcare providers and management have devised this Congestive Heart Failure Clinic and educational module for you.

The greatest opportunity you have for regaining your health and/or for retaining the degree of health you currently have is to:
  • Understand why your heart is not working as it should.
  • Avoid the behaviors which further injures, weakens or stresses your heart.
  • Take the actions which will strengthen your heart.
  • Recognize the signs and symptoms of heart failure enabling you to seek timely and effective care.
Participation in SETMA's CHF clinic, and for that matter in any of the special-needs clinics which SETMA providers offer, i.e., Coumadin, Lipids, Diabetes, Pulmonary, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism,etc, is a major step which you can take in the process of taking responsibility for your own health and your own care. By participating in these special clinics, as they apply to you and your care, you are assured that:
  • You will be receiving state-of-the-art care based on national, quality-of-care initiatives. One of the most significant of those initiatives is the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement which is a joint project of the American Medical Association, the National Institutes of Medicine, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and over 50 national medical specialty societies.
  • The standard of your care, the steps of your care and the measurement of the quality of your care received in SETMA's CHF and other special clinics are based on the Consortium's work. Of course, as is obvious, the application of those principles and standards is a reflection of SETMA's commitment to you, your health and your future well being.
  • Your healthcare provider has the very latest information available anywhere to help you achieve your healthcare goals.
  • No legitimate and reasonable effort will be overlooked in helping you do as well as it is possible for you to do.
  • Whatever the outcome of your care, it will be the best possible result based on the current state of knowledge and currently available treatments.
As we have often said, welcome to the future of healthcare; welcome to SETMA and now welcome to SETMA's congestive heart failure clinic. We look forward to working with you. Remember SETMA's motto: Healthcare where your health is the only care. SETMA's CHF clinic is another example of our fulfilling of that commitment.