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Offered by Colorado Health Medical Group, Heart Failure University is a free patient education series designed to provide valuable information to people living with heart failure. The four-part series is held once in Loveland and then repeated in Fort Collins.

Time and Location

LOVELAND
Thursdays
May 9, 16, 23, and 30
July 11, 18, 25, and Aug. 1
Medical Center of the Rockies, Poudre Canyon Room
2500 Rocky Mountain Ave. 

Class I: Overview and monitoring symptoms of heart failure
Instruction led by a heart failure patient navigator

• What is heart failure and what causes it?
• The basics of managing heart failure (symptom monitoring, daily weighing, medication adherence and more).
• Treatment options for heart failure.
• What does my future look like (prognosis)?
• Signs of worsening heart failure.
• Fluid and symptom monitoring: The importance of weighing daily and doing right.
• The importance of daily evaluation of symptoms using the green/yellow/red chart.
• Discussion about when to call your provider and when to go the emergency room.

Class II: Lifestyles I - Medications and exercise
Instruction led by a pharmacist and cardiac exercise therapist

• What medications do I need to take and why?
• Medications used to treat heart failure and slow its progression.
• Discussion about how heart failure medications work, the best time for taking them, side effects, and what to do if a
  dose is missed.
• Exercise and activity: finding balance and building endurance without stressing you heart.

Class III: Lifestyle II - Nutrition
Instruction led by a registered dietician and cardiac rehab nurse

• Eating heart healthy to slow the progression of heart failure and heart disease.
• Review of medication adherence and symptoms.

Class IV: Lifestyle III - Resources, support and next steps
Instruction led by a community case manager or medical social worker and a heart failure patient navigator

• Self-management, coping and building support systems.
• Community resources, support groups, and financial assistance programs.
• Planning your future to protect your wishes for care (living wills, healthcare durable power of attorney and DNR status).
• Review of daily weighing and healthy eating.

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