COPD - INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program

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The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program brings together a team of professionals to provide education and support to people with COPD and their families in their homes to help them cope better with COPD. (Watch a video about the program here). This program includes:

Home-based education according to your needs. This includes information about caring for your lungs, medications and use of your inhalers, home oxygen (if your doctor has prescribed it for you) and coping with your lung disease.
Can include a “COPD Action Plan” to help manage COPD and its acute flare-ups so that you can treat infections early and avoid trips to the Emergency Department.
Help with navigating the healthcare system and gaining access to programs/services that may be helpful to you.
An opportunity to discuss advance care planning (.pdf) or (Watch Video).
A contact number you can call between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays where you will be able to speak to a respiratory therapist if you have questions or concerns about your COPD.

There is no cost for participating in the INSPIRED Program.

Eligibility

You are eligible for The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program if:

You have a confirmed diagnosis of moderate to severe COPD. This needs to be confirmed by a spirometry test (a breathing test that measures lung function) that shows you have:
- Severe COPD (which you probably do if you have COPD and are too breathless to leave the house, or get breathless after dressing/undressing) or:
- Moderate COPD (which you probably do if you have COPD and stop for breath after 100 meters or walk slower than those in your age group and have to stop for breath when walking at your own pace
You live in Nova Scotia
You are community dwelling, which means you do not live in a nursing home or a long term care facility
You are willing to be referred

And You have been:

Admitted to hospital with a flare up of your COPD at least once in the past year.

If you live in Central Zone you may be eligible if you have gone to the Emergency Department more than once in the last year because of your COPD

*What zone am I in?

Learn More

Watch this series of videos produced by Nova Scotia Health in cooperation with the Lung Association of Nova Scotia to learn more about the INSPIRED program.
Watch Marjorie's story and see first hand how the INSPIRED program has changed her life.

Accessing this Clinic, Program or Service

Cape Breton Regional Hospital

1482 George Street
Sydney, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Unavailable

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-567-0378
Fax: 902-563-7920
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

If you are a patient with moderate or advanced COPD who meets our eligibility criteria and would like to be part of the The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program, please ask your family physician or respirologist to fill out the INSPIRED COPD outreach Program referral form.

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Western/Northern/Eastern Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

*What zone am I in?

Colchester East Hants Health Centre

600 Abenaki Road
Truro, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Unavailable

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-324-2694
Fax: 902-893-7908
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Western/Northern/Eastern Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

*What zone am I in?

Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre

19428 NS-2
Amherst, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Unavailable

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Respiratory Therapy Department
Tel: 902-667-5400 ext 6110
Fax: 902-667-1882
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Western/Northern/Eastern Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

*What zone am I in?

Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre

420 Susie Lake Crescent
Halifax, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Unavailable

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-719-6194
Fax: 902-425-4191
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Central Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

*What zone am I in?

South Shore Regional Hospital

90 Glen Allan Drive
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program

Tel: 902-523-3880
Fax: 902-527-5099
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Western/Northern/Eastern Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

Hants Community Hospital

89 Payzant Drive
Windsor, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Unavailable

sun May 12 Unavailable

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Respiratory Therapy Department

Tel: 902-792-2061
Fax: 902-798-5107
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Central Zone* Referral Form (.pdf)

Yarmouth Regional Hospital

60 Vancouver Street
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Closed

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-740-2881
Fax: 902-742-8418
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Referral Form (.pdf)

Valley Regional Hospital

150 Exhibition Street
Kentville, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Closed

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-698-3417
Fax: 902-679-3346
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Referral Form (.pdf)

St. Martha's Regional Hospital

25 Bay Street
Antigonish, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Closed

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-870-7581
Fax: 902-867-1085
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Referral Form (.pdf)

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Closed

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

New Glasgow

688B East River Rd.
New Glasgow, NS
B2H 3S1

Tel: 902-759-3861
Fax: 833-924-0384
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Referral Form (.pdf)

Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital

39 James Street
P.O. Box 610
Inverness, Nova Scotia

wed May 8 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

thu May 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

fri May 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

sat May 11 Closed

sun May 12 Closed

mon May 13 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

tue May 14 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 902-258-7195
Fax: 833-258-3341
email: inspired@nshealth.ca

The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program - Referral Form (.pdf)

Patient Education Resources

Advance Care Planning: Making Your Personal and Medical Wishes Known

June 1, 2022

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Advance care planning, or personal care planning, is the process of making your medical and medical wishes known. This pamphlet gives information about advance care planning, how to navigate personal directives (PDs), and delegates. This pamphlet is also available in French.

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