Our chronic disease nurse is specially trained to help optimize the quality of life for patients and their caregivers, young patients or parents with a child living with a chronic respiratory disease like emphysema and asthma, commonly called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).

Our program aims to:

• Reduce your symptoms
• Increase your participation in self-management
• Delay or prevent hospitalization or emergency room visits
• Improve fitness & physical condition
• Promote lifestyle changes

A variety of services are offered to you:

• Educational sessions (i.e. disease process, technique for inhaled medications, action plan, and stress management)
• Smoking cessation counseling
• Spirometry test (lung function test) to screen or to monitor the disease
• Supervised individualized exercise program (1-2 times/week)
• Nutritional assessment, if needed

The following multidisciplinary personnel will work with you:

• Chronic disease nurse
• Health promoter
• Mental health counselor
• Pharmacist
• Nurse practitioner and/or Dietitian.

To receive these services, you must be a resident of the Province of Ontario and be referred by a family physician who is a member of our Family Health Team.