Maurice Cloutier has chronic heart failure. He and his doctor credit his regular attendance at a cardiac rehabilitation program with keeping him out of the hospital.
莫里斯·克卢捷(Maurice Cloutier)患有慢性心力衰竭。他和他的医生将其不用住院的原因归功于定期参加心脏康复计划。
Such rehabilitation programs are opening up to more people with chronic heart failure, one of medicine's most debilitating and costly illnesses, following a recent change in Medicare reimbursement rules. After nearly a decade of deliberation, Medicare officials decided to cover cardiac rehabilitation for these patients, clearing a big obstacle to supervised exercise and counseling programs for hundreds of thousands of people.
如何应对心力衰竭?慢性心力衰竭是医学中最易使人衰弱、治疗成本最高的疾病之一。在“医疗保险计划”(Medicare)报销规定近期发生变化之后,此类康复计划开始向更多这类患者开放。经过近10年的仔细考虑后,“医疗保险计划”官员决定为这些患者偿付心脏康复费用,从而清除了数十万人进行有看护的锻炼及加入咨询计划的一大障碍。
'This takes the most disabled heart patients and gives them a chance to improve their functional capacity and quality of life,' said Philip Ades, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., and Mr. Cloutier's doctor. 'Twenty years ago we told them to go sit in an arm chair. Now we can hand you back part of your life.'
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