Bringing Advanced Heart Failure Care Closer to Home

The kind of patients we see are all heart failure patients. They have, from various means, had some sort of damage to their heart. The care that we provide to them allows them to have close detailed office visits that allow us to help their overall health by reducing their blood pressure, reducing their heart rates, and fixing those underlying issues.

In our heart failure patient population, patients are at risk for fluid building up, especially in their lungs. The ReDS system is a remote dielectric sensing device providing an accurate pulmonary congestion assessment. This device provides a non invasive reading that determines the percentage of fluid in the lungs.

It's important to offer this close to home because many patients would have to oftentimes drive a pretty good distance to receive extra services, especially if they have recurring issues with volume retention. So this allows us to create a close to home opportunity to keep patients safe and healthy in the long run.

Since the foundation has been able to bring us the ReDS device that has given us one more tool in our toolbox to help this underserved population.

It makes me feel grateful to know that the community is invested in caregivers and patients because this added tool allows us to provide more accurate diagnosis and treatments for our patients to allow them to stay healthy and stay out of the hospital.

The fact that the Baptist Health Foundation has the desire to promote the welfare of others means everything to our community. It has given us the opportunity to offer something to the heart failure patient population that no one else in the region has to offer.