Articles About Stroke Healthcare Team

1. How to Have Strong Communication With Medical Staff

   Article - Basic approaches to getting the information you need to make good decisions about your parent's medical care.

2. How To Determine If an HMO Is Right for the Person in Your Care

   Article - NOTE: To find out how many patient complaints were registered against an HMO, call your state insurance commissioner in the phone book under State Government.

3. 10 Vital Things to Look for in a Stroke Center

   Article - Learn the 10 most important things you should know when choosing a stroke center.

4. Health Care Team for Stroke

   Article - There are many levels of outpatient care programs. In some, therapists come to the home to deliver therapy; others may require the survivor to go into a facility. Either way, it will be a therapist and not a doctor who is involved with the survivor and family caregiver on a day-to-day basis...

5. Making the Most of the Stroke Rehabilitation Team

   Article - When someone has a stroke, you can aid in his recovery not just by supporting him emotionally and physically but by helping to choose and coordinate the stroke rehabilitation team. Here are six ways to do it.

6. Healthcare Team for Stroke: Acute Rehab Stage

   Article - To be admitted to acute rehabilitation, your survivor must be able to do three hours of rehab a day -- 90 minutes of physical therapy and 90 minutes of occupational therapy. The links in this part of the chain include:

7. Healthcare Team for Stroke: Acute Stage

   Article - The professionals at work during this stage of care may well save your survivor's life. As the caregiver, you won't have much interaction with this group. Think of your survivor's care as a chain of survival, and each professional is a link in that chain.

8. Using the Health Care Team Effectively

   Article - When you care for someone in the home, you must also manage that person's health care. This means choosing a good medical team, keeping costs down, arranging for medical appointments, and getting the best, least expensive medicines. It also means knowing what the insurance rules are and, most important...

9. Healthcare Team for Stroke: At-Home Care Stage

   Article - There are many levels of outpatient care programs. In some, therapists come to the home to deliver therapy; others may require the survivor to go into a facility. Either way, it will be a therapist and not a doctor who is involved with the survivor and family caregiver on a day-to-day basis...

10. Healthcare Team for Stroke: Sub-Acute Rehab Stage

    Article - Sub-acute rehab is for survivors who can't go home and who can't perform three hours of rehab daily. Usually, people in these skilled nursing facilities receive an hour to 90 minutes of rehab a day. Although orders for care will come from a doctor, the family or caregiver will generally interact with nurses and therapists...

11. Healthcare Team for Stroke: Acute Rehab Stage

    Article - To be admitted to acute rehabilitation, your survivor must be able to do three hours of rehab a day -- 90 minutes of physical therapy and 90 minutes of occupational therapy. The links in this part of the chain include:

12. Choosing a Doctor

    Article - Call your local medical or dental society for the names of doctors who specialize in the field in which you seek care. Think about using doctors who are allied with medical schools. They tend to have the most up-to-date information, especially about complicated illnesses.

13. Case Management

    Article - Case management is an important resource for families living with chronic illness. It is easy to become stressed out with the demands of the disease and with the red tape of the health care and social services network. Case managers need to have a basic understanding of the special needs of persons with chronic illness...

14. The Doctor-Patient-Caregiver Relationship

    Article - Learn about the relationship that develops between a doctor, patient and caregiver, how to strengthen that dynamic and improve communication.

15. Staying Actively Involved in the Health Care of Someone in Your Care

    Article - When you care for someone in the home, you must also manage that person's health care. This means choosing a good medical team, keeping costs down, arranging for medical appointments, and getting the best, least expensive medicines. It also means knowing what the insurance rules are and, most important, being an advocate for the person in your care...