“Through this partnership with the COPD Foundation, we will help our patients and at-risk populations manage or even prevent COPD through trusting patient-provider relationships, comprehensive care teams, and expanded access to rehabilitation resources. “Patients who are living with COPD struggle with ongoing discomfort, breathlessness, and chronic coughs – and we have ways to help improve their quality of life,” Clive Fields, MD, VillageMD’s co-founder, said in a press release. The collaboration also wants to increase the availability of pulmonary rehabilitation, a nonpharmacological therapy that incorporates nutrition, exercise, education, and psychological guidance to ease COPD symptoms and improve patients’ quality of life. Lisa Sanders takes us behind the scenes and beyond the symptoms in a discussion of her new Netflix series, Diagnosis, based on her long-running column in The New York Times.
VillageMD and the foundation will utilize education and outreach to raise awareness about the chronic inflammatory lung disorder and help identify those who haven’t yet been diagnosed. David McCabe reports on tech policy from Washington. residents have undiagnosed COPD, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. It also offers at-home and telehealth services. A VillageMD subsidiary, Village Medical provides care at traditional free-standing practices and at Walgreens locations. The collaboration seeks to better identify and treat COPD at Village Medical clinics.
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