多发性硬化症专科护理计划

皇冠app offers patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) respected and innovative programs that focus on all aspects of MS care, including a patient’s physical and emotional well-being.

MS is a disease of the central nervous system in which the body’s immune system malfunctions and attacks healthy brain cells, 影响大脑, 脊髓, 还有视神经. 它会引起很多问题, including weakness and numbness in the hands and legs, 肠和膀胱问题, 以及视力和记忆问题.

The MS Specialty Care Program at 皇冠app神经病学 has assembled a team comprising a neurologist, 心理健康专家, 护士, 护士, 物理治疗师, 职业治疗师, 社会工作者, 营养学家, 医疗助理, 同行的志愿者, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society representatives.

这个项目, 2012年开发, 大约1,来自新罕布什尔州的200名病人, 佛蒙特州, 和马萨诸塞州. It has developed a large network of resources for newly diagnosed patients and patients already in treatment. A key goal is to teach patients how to cope with MS, how to network with others with MS and to offer support to help prevent relapses.

这个项目 includes a monthly MS clinic where patients with complex issues can see all of their specialists at one time, 使护理更加及时和协调. Having such a comprehensive program in the community benefits patients, saving them from having to travel long distances for care.

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The Specialty Care Program includes the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Wellness Program, which pairs MS patients with peer mentors— others with MS—who are 皇冠app volunteers trained by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 这个项目, 由拨款资助, joins mentors with patients in activities to improve their health and wellness.

这个项目 was designed by its director, Brant Oliver, 博士学位, MPH, APRN-BC, a provider in the specialty care program. 在奥利弗的指导下, the peer mentors manage and run the program, making it the only program of its type in the region.

这个项目 is open to patients of 皇冠app神经病学’s MS Specialty Care Program who do not have access and/or finances to participate in wellness programs on their own. Participants help formulate an individual wellness plan, then carry it out with support from their peer mentor and one-year funding of up to $1,000 for each team from the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.

Since 2013, approximately 20 people have completed the program and many now are mentors. Wellness programs can reduce chronic stress and improve a patient’s sense of ability to cope with an uncertain chronic illness, 如女士.

Mentors reach beyond valuable wellness programs presented at the Hospital by engaging patients in their own communities, 到康科德通常要坐很长一段路.