Cardiology: Support & Resources

Lee Health: Heart Experts Caring For Patients & Our Community Outside the Office

Lee Health is dedicated to providing you and your family with a positive experience. Education is an important part of learning how to live a long healthy life with heart disease. We want you to understand your condition and treatment, and get all of your questions answered. The following resources will provide you and your family with the information you need while you are in the hospital and when you return home.

Mended Hearts Support Group

Mended Hearts is a volunteer organization consisting of people who have heart disease, their spouses, family members, medical professionals and other interested individuals.

They visit patients before and after surgery, cardiac catheterization and angioplasty. The group meet monthly at HealthPark to have open discussions with guest speakers and offers support to those with similar experiences.

Members receive HEARTBEAT, the national quarterly journal and an insignia pin. Everyone will receive a newsletter for three months even if they don't join the organization.

There are millions of people who have had cardiac events — from procedures such as angioplasty to surgery, including valve repairs and even transplants — and the number increases each year by nearly half of a million.

For more information please contact Lex Roulston at 239-432-0985 or visit the National Mended Hearts website: www.mendedhearts.org

Mended Hearts at Lee Health

Part of the healing process and this journey is finding hope and hope is so important to have as we continue to mend our hearts and move forward in a positive direction, and mended Hearts comes from that place of experience. There is something so powerful to be able to connect with someone who has been on the same Journey as you and learn from that experience gained support from that experience. In skiing inside. My name is Edson - and I'm a volunteer with mended hearts in order to be a volunteer for mended Hearts. You have to have amended heart and my heart's been mended a few times. In my case. I've got 20 stents and two double bypass has. So I know how you're feeling. I know what you're worried about. I know what your concerns are. I'll give you a few instances and and some keys to help you in your recovery. First of all walking is very important. Secondly. Rest is important. Don't be afraid to take a nap consistency of your meals is also an important factor because many of your medications are given with the attitude that you're going to eat at a certain period of time, and you go in and have a certain medication at that time. Also, another helpful thing is to have a little spiral notebook, take that notebook and write down. What time you took your last dosage and what time you take your next dosage, you'll find that it will be very helpful cardio rehab. Probably the most important part of your rehab rehabilitation and getting yourself back and back into the normal way. I guarantee you that you will feel better. When you finish the weeks of cardio rehab with that. I say good recovery to you. If you need anything, I've got cards out that you can call me. I have no problem talking to you whatsoever. I'll do my best to help you or guide you in the proper direction. I think the mended Hearts program is really important not only to our patients but their families and caregivers. Well, there are a nonprofit organization, both nationally and community-based. And they're here for our patients, and share our vision, and our goal for your care. Under normal circumstances before we've experienced this, pandemic in our nation. Our volunteers would come up to the bedside and be able to talk with you. And your loved ones. We are practicing social distancing, among some other practices to keep us all safe from this pandemic. As a result. If you would like to contact, mended hearts and speak to someone, we I want to make sure that you have that resource available to you. So simply inform the charge nurse up at the front desk and we'd be more than happy to have you connect with them.

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Support Group

This is a communitywide support group for patients with ICDs, their families and caregivers. The purpose of an ICD is to continuously monitor the patient's rhythm, diagnose rhythm changes, and treat life-threatening ventricular dyrhythmias.

Meetings take place approximately five times a year and are designed to meet the educational needs of patients with ICDs.

The goal of this support group is to assist the individual and their families to deal with the psychosocial issues regarding living with an ICD. Participants share their concerns and reinforce their knowledge during informal group meetings.

Speakers discuss topics of interest and encourage open discussions identifying real-life situations and how to cope with them effectively.

There is no charge for participation in the ICD support group. The private not-for-profit support system is funded entirely by device manufacturers, generous donors, and Lee Health.

For more information, please call Joyce or Valerie at 239-343-0169

Other Resources For Patients and Families

Spiritual Services promote holistic care for body, mind, and spirit by addressing the spiritual and emotional needs of patients, families, employees, volunteers and faith communities through the collaborative efforts of our staff, including chaplains, parish nurses, ethics counselors, bereavement coordinator and our Critical Incident Stress Response (CISR) team. For more information about spiritual serves, please call 239-343-5199.

Language assistance: We recognize that communication between our hospital team and patients is vital to providing compassionate health care. If you need language assistance, please let your nurse know. For more information about language assistance, contact our language assistance coordinator at 239-424-3806.

Art therapy utilizes art media and creativity to help patients in their healing and recovery. Art therapy can help patients decrease anxiety, manage stress, and deal with emotional issues. For more information about art therapy, please call the Arts in health care at 239-343-5055.

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