Chronic Care Management

When you have a chronic condition, like diabetes, asthma, or heart disease, you need a trusted provider to help you manage your health and avoid complications. At Collierville Family Health in Collierville, Tennessee, Felicia Gray-Hamilton, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, and the team offer regular check-ups, screenings, medication management, and coordination with specialists to help you live as healthy as possible. To learn more about chronic care management, call the office or request an appointment online today. 

What is a chronic disease?

Chronic diseases are those that affect you long-term and typically have no cure. Their symptoms are manageable, so you can live a normal life. 

Chronic disease complications are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Proper management of your condition helps you avoid losing work, high health care costs, and a generally poor quality of life. 

What types of diseases benefit from chronic care management?

Millions of Americans suffer from one or more of the following chronic diseases:

• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease or heart disease
• Depression and anxiety
• Dementia
• Arthritis
• Pain conditions
• Chronic kidney disease
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• High cholesterol
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Stroke
• Thyroid disease

Collierville Family Health helps you manage these conditions, so you have fewer symptoms and disabilities. 

Skilled management also helps prevent complications. They coordinate care among specialists, keeping all of your medical information in one location.

What does chronic care management involve?

Collierville Family Health customizes your chronic care management plan to your condition(s). Your provider’s goal is to minimize daily symptoms that affect your overall quality of life. 

If you have a flare-up, like unusually high blood sugar with diabetes or severe joint pain with arthritis, you can make an immediate appointment at Collierville Family Health for treatment to avoid complications. 

Specific chronic care support you can expect includes: 

• Monitoring of health markers through blood tests or other evaluations
• Diet and exercise planning
• Relevant screenings
• Lifestyle recommendations and behavior change
• Medication review and management
• Coordination of care among specialists

Your provider takes into consideration your home and work environment, schedule, and preferences when making recommendations or creating treatment plans. 

Why is chronic care management important?

If you have a chronic disease diagnosis, the best thing you can do is get skilled management from Collierville Family Health to prevent it from progressing and creating disability.

Minimize your risk of developing a chronic disease by following smart lifestyle habits that are known to discourage the development or worsening of chronic disease. These include:

• Getting regular physical activity
• Minimizing alcohol use
• Eliminating tobacco use
• Eating a balanced diet consisting of whole foods

Even if you have a genetic predisposition to a certain chronic disease, healthy habits go a long way in preventing it from ever developing.

If you need chronic care management, call Collierville Family Health or request an appointment online today.