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Managing chronic diseases
If you’re managing a chronic condition, we can help you get the treatment you need to feel better. You’ll learn more about your condition, including ways to manage your symptoms, so you can be your healthiest.
Our care management team
Our care management team
Our team will come up with a care plan that’s right for you. They’ll ensure you get the care and services you need.
You’ll have nurses and social workers to help you:
- Connect to other resources and get referrals for specialized care
- Work with your health care providers
- Understand your symptoms
- Get services after normal business hours when you really need them
- Arrange services for children with special health care needs, such as well-child care, health promotion, disease prevention and specialty care
Asthma is common and affects people in different ways. If you have symptoms, you’ll want to discuss them with your provider. Here’s how we can help:
First, we’ll see if your asthma is low risk or high risk. If it’s low risk, we’ll give you tips for caring for yourself year-round. That way, you can better manage your symptoms when they appear.
If it’s high risk, a care manager will call you to talk about your asthma care. You’ll talk about things like:
- How to take care of your asthma at home
- Why you should take your medicine as prescribed
- What might cause an asthma attack
- How to change your habits so you can feel better
COPD is a lung disease. Our care management team works with members who have COPD to help them get the support they need to feel better.
First, we’ll see if your COPD is low risk or high risk. If it’s high risk, a care manager will check in on you to make sure you’re getting the help you need. They’ll talk to you about your treatment. In some cases, you might get a prescription for oxygen therapy or more medicine. If you smoke, your care manager can help you come up with a plan to quit smoking.
Diabetes can be a lot to handle alone. We’re here to help you manage and treat your diabetes. First, we’ll work with you and your provider to see if your diabetes is low risk or high risk.
If it’s low risk, we’ll get you the info and help you need to take care of yourself.
If your diabetes is high risk, we’ll help you learn how to:
- Manage your diabetes
- Watch your blood sugar
- Take your medicine
- Care for your feet
- Practice healthy habits
Do you ever have shortness of breath doing everyday activities? If so, you might be showing symptoms of heart failure.
We’ll work with your provider to help you manage and prevent those symptoms. We’ll come up with treatment options so you can get the care you need. Many of our members with heart failure live healthy, active lives.
CAD is the most common form of heart disease. Cholesterol can start to collect in your arteries. This makes the heart work harder to do its job.
Tell your provider if your family has any history of CAD. We’ll create a care program to help treat and prevent your symptoms.
Are you or someone you know feeling sad? Feeling sad is normal. But sometimes, you feel sad for no clear reason. If that sadness continues or begins to create other symptoms, it becomes depression. You should call your provider right away if you’re feeling depressed.
Some common signs and symptoms of depression include:
- Feeling like nothing will ever get better
- Losing interest in things that used to be enjoyable
- Gaining or losing lots of weight in a short amount of time
- Sleeping more or less than usual
- Increased anger or grumpiness
- Increased feeling of tiredness
- Feeling low self-worth
- Behaving recklessly
- Having trouble making decisions or remembering things