Facts for Your Stay Managing Pain Checklist for Discharge Chs Cancer

PATIENT GUIDE Key Information For Your Stay FACTS FOR YOUR STAY MANAGING PAIN CHECKLIST FOR DISCHARGE CHS CANCER CENTER AT ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL FREE! Take This Copy Home With You Brought to you by: When it comes to short-term rehab, we’re a step ahead of the rest! 825 Old Country Road Plainview, New York 11803 516-433-0600 centralislandhealthcare.com and 574 Fulton Street Farmingdale, New York 11735 516-694-9800 daleviewcarecenter.com LONG ISLAND’S LEADERS IN REHABILITATION NSPC-BNS-Team-2017-StJ PatientGuide.indd 2 10/23/17 1:00 PM A 320-Bed Facility Featuring: • Skilled Nursing Care • Short-Term Rehabilitation: • Physical • Occupational • Speech • Stroke • Cardiac • Pulmonary • Orthopedic • IV Therapy • Wound Care • Sub-Acute Care • Adult Day Care For more information or to schedule a visit, call: 400 South Service Rd., Melville, NY | 631-439-3000 View our virtual tour at www.HuntingtonHillsCenter.com CONTENTS On Our Cover CHS Cancer Center at St. Joseph Hospital ..........4 Facts for Your Stay .......... 6 Managing Pain ............. 13 Checklist for Discharge ..... 15 ............................ WELCOME 2 PAGE ABOUT US ............................3 9 PHONE DIRECTORY ...................5 FAST FACTS ABOUT YOUR STAY ......6 Take Charge Plus TV Channel Listings of Your Care SPECIAL SECTION ....................9 n 7 Ways to Take Charge LEAVING THE HOSPITAL ..............15 n SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH ..............17 Patient/Family Advisor Heart Attack & Stroke Warning Signs Committee Stop Smoking Diabetes n Choose a Support Person CONTINUING HEALTH n Check IDs CARE ASSISTANCE ....................20 ST. FRANCIS IMAGING AT n Help Prevent Infections ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL .................21 n Viruses or Bacteria MEDICINE TRACKER ..................22 n WHO’S CARING FOR YOU ............23 Don’t Ignore Pain n GAMES ...............................24 Prevent Falls n Speak Up! The editorial content displayed here is the responsibility of PatientPoint. This material is for your educational use only. It does not contain, nor should it be construed as containing, medical advice. Talk to your doctor before making any lifestyle or treatment changes. Sponsors are responsible for the material provided, and your healthcare provider’s participation in the program does not represent an explicit or implied endorsement of any material presented. The people shown are models and are not known to have any health condition. Images are for illustrative purposes only. Image credits: Getty Images, iStockphoto. ©2018 PatientPoint® 1 WELCOME Thank You for Trusting Us t is my pleasure to welcome and we strive to instill focused One of the most important you to St. Joseph Hospital. customer service throughout measures of a hospital’s success At St. Joseph Hospital, all of our patient care areas. Our is the quality of its staff, the Iwe are committed to providing highly skilled team—your friends heart and soul of St. Joseph the highest level of quality care and neighbors—are proud to Hospital. Here you will be treated in a safe and friendly manner. continuously offer exceptional by our experienced health You can be assured that St. health care, close to home. We are care professionals—talented, Joseph Hospital is committed committed to working diligently board-certified physicians and to promptly diagnosing and to treat our patients with the experienced, knowledgeable treating your medical needs. Our utmost compassion and respect. nurses and support staff. All of primary focus is our patients’ and We constantly seek feedback our physicians, nurses, employees families’ comfort, convenience from our patients and families and volunteers are dedicated and confidentiality. Our faith- in order to improve the overall to providing compassionate, based mission and values, as well patient experience. We want high-quality care and making as our strong customer service your experience at St. Joseph your hospital stay with us as philosophy, guide our actions Hospital to be excellent and will comfortable as possible. Thank every day. do everything we can to exceed you for choosing St. Joseph We are committed to continually your expectations. If you have any Hospital. It is our privilege to take improving the patient experience issues or comments, please do not care of you. at St. Joseph Hospital. We hesitate to contact our Patient Sincerely, Advocate at 516-520-2218. understand you have many choices Peter Scaminaci for your health care services, EVP/CAO MISSION STATEMENT We, at Catholic Health Services, humbly join together to bring Christ’s healing mission and the mission of mercy of the Catholic Church expressed in Catholic health care to our communities. 2 ABOUT US Photo courtesy of Peter Foley © Why We Are the Right Choice for Your Care Located in Bethpage, St. Joseph Department and cares for 6,000 Our Diabetes Education Center Hospital is a 203-bed hospital inpatients per year. The hospital provides expert education about serving the communities of provides inpatient and ambulatory how to live with diabetes for southeastern Nassau County surgical services, endoscopy and a patients recently diagnosed with and western Suffolk County. variety of outpatient services. Our diabetes and for those patients The hospital became part of radiology services include: who have had challenges managing Catholic Health Services of Long • Outpatient Radiology (fully their diabetes in the past. Classes Island in 2010. The hospital is accredited by the American also are available for patients fully accredited by The Joint College of Radiology) with pre-diabetes. Support for Commission, earning a Gold Seal • Cardiac CT Scan – revolutionary patients with insulin pumps also is of Approval. St. Joseph Hospital way to look at your heart and provided. has been recognized for its pinpoint disease long before The St. Joseph Hospital Center commitment to patient safety symptoms start. The scanner for Sleep Medicine will diagnose and high-quality care. Winner allows your physician to examine and recommend appropriate of Catholic Health System’s the health of the blood vessels treatments to address symptoms Inaugural Pinnacle Award in around your heart. of sleep disorders. The center has 2014 and second place winner • General Radiology – X-rays, six overnight sleep study suites. in 2015 and 2016, St. Joseph is fluoroscopy Your sleep test can be scheduled the proud recipient of the 2017 • CT Scanning – new equipment quickly without waiting. Our Healthcare Association of New uses the lowest radiation doses hotel-like suites are equipped with York State (HANYS) Pinnacle possible while maintaining queen-sized beds, private baths, Award for Quality and Patient excellent image quality flat screen TVs and sophisticated Safety. In addition to the many • MRI monitoring equipment. recent patient safety and quality • Ultrasonography – abdominal, • Physicians are board certified achievements, St. Joseph secured breast, gynecologic and recognized as experts in the 2017 Get With The Guidelines® • Nuclear Medicine diagnosing and treating sleep Stroke Gold Plus Award and AFIB • Digital Mammography disorders. Gold Achievement Award. • Stereotactic Breast Biopsy • Certified technicians monitor your The hospital provides care to • Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory sleep cycle during an overnight 33,000 patients in the Emergency sleep study test. 3 ABOUT US continued • The center offers the latest comprehensive assessment and at St. Joseph Hospital is a six- technology and highly trained treatment for children and adults chair infusion unit that provides specialists in the field of sleep with speech and swallowing patients who require intravenous medicine in a comfortable, problems by an expert staff. therapy such as chemotherapy, IV contemporary setting. antibiotics, blood transfusions, A Lung Cancer Screening therapeutic phlebotomy, infusion Outpatient Balance/Vestibular Program is now available at St. medications for osteoporosis, & Foot Physical Therapy offers Joseph Hospital. Asymptomatic etc., a comfortable and controlled specialized one-to-one treatment patients who are at high risk for environment. Intravenous therapy for patients suffering from balance lung cancer will have an intake and in a community hospital is not only and foot disorders including physical examination performed safe, but allows the patient the vertigo, BPPV, dizziness, foot or by a nurse practitioner, then a convenience of being close to home. ankle pain and gait instability. low-dose CT scan of the chest, if appropriate. Enrollees are Designed for patient satisfaction The Wound Care and Hyperbaric expected to have annual visits with and comfort, our treatment unit Oxygen Therapy Center provides the program and scans based on comprehensive care to complex provides specialized, high-quality, recommended guidelines. Results wounds through a team approach individualized care to all patients. involving wound care nurses, will be shared with the patient’s The unit is: general surgeons, podiatrists, primary care physician. • Staffed by certified infusion/ chemotherapy nurses vascular surgeons and plastic Cost for participating in the surgeons. The St. Joseph Wound • Open six days a week program will either be free or a • Convenient morning to early Care Center was the first wound small insurance co-pay. healing center on Long Island to be evening hours. accredited and reaccredited by the In September 2017, St. Joseph Physician referrals are required. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Hospital expanded its outpatient For more information about Society.

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