Bridgewater & Area Family Health Centre

Cardiac Maintenance Education Program

Phone: 902-893-5528
Fax: 902-893-3713

You need a physician referral to access this program.

Referrals are accepted from physicians and nurse practitioners for patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF).

Contact

Tel: 902-543-4604x2222 for more information
Fax: 902-543-8895

Program Details

Queens General Hospital Heart Function Clinic

The Queens General Hospital Heart Function Clinic is a specialized hospital-based clinic designed to reduce hospitalizations for patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF). Patients with CHF will see a Nurse Practitioner who works collaboratively with a team of cardiologists and internal medicine specialists to optimize medical therapy and provide education on self-management to prevent hospitalizations and ER visits.

The Bayer’s Lake Primary Care Clinic sees both attached patients who are taken from the Need A Family Practice Registry and unattached patients who are referred to a primary care clinic such as Bayer’s Lake. Unattached patients are referred directly from the VirtualCareNS platform.

Referrals can be sent by fax (902-543-8895) from physicians and NPs who suspect that their patient may have had a TIA.

Contact

ph: 902-543-4604 ext 2222 for more information
fax: 902-543-8895

Program Information 
The Rapid Access  Transient ischemic attack (TIA) and Stroke Secondary Prevention Clinic provides rapid assessment by a Nurse Practitioner (NP) of patients who have experienced transient stroke-like symptoms who present to the emergency department or in the primary health care setting.

This clinic aims to rapidly identify patients who have experienced a TIA, and streamline patients with critical stenosis of the carotid arteries to surgical evaluation to reduce the risk of stroke. Patients will receive a neurologic examination by the Nurse Practitioner.

The TIA clinic will also  arrange diagnostic tests, if not already completed, such as carotid dopplers, CT scan of the head, ECG and holter monitoring and echocardiography if necessary to identify the underlying cause of their clinical presentation and treat any risk factors that could place the patient at risk of stroke.

Open to patients with no provider from within the catchment area

Call 902-532-2324