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Chronic Disease Community Rehabilitation Service – Pulmonary and Heart Failure

Head office: The Lodge (corner of Twin & Badajoz Rd), Macquarie Hospital

North Ryde

2113

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Chronic Disease Community Rehabilitation Service – Pulmonary and Heart Failure

Contact us

Phone: 8877 4041

Fax: 8877 5370

Opening hours

Monday to Friday

8am – 4:30pm

 What we do

The Chronic Disease Community Rehabilitation Service (CDCRS) provides rehabilitation services to people residing in NSLHD who have a chronic respiratory disease and/or chronic heart failure.

The CDCRS multi-disciplinary team includes: a respiratory specialist, physiotherapists, clinical nurse specialists, clinical psychologists, an occupational therapist and a dietitian.

The service includes exercise rehabilitation, sputum clearance, smoking cessation, psychological management, review of lung function, medication review, nutritional management, home modifications/aids and disease-specific education. Interventions are tailored to each patient’s individual needs.

Pulmonary and chronic heart failure exercise rehabilitation programs are provided in Northern Sydney Local Health District hospital outpatient and community-based venues located at: Royal North Shore, Brookvale, Mona Vale, Hornsby and Ryde. The CDCRS also provides telehealth programs.

 What to bring

Closed in walking shoes, comfortable loose clothing, relevant medications, a water bottle.

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 Referral information

Patients with a confirmed diagnosis of chronic respiratory disease and/or chronic heart failure are eligible for this service. Patients need to be fit enough to be able to access this service and must not have symptomatic cardiac disease, where exercise would be unsafe.

No significant musculoskeletal, neurological or cognitive impairment that would preclude the ability to participate in group-based exercise or significant mobility or falls issues.

Referral can be made through the Northern Sydney Local Health District Health Contact Centre on 1300 732 503 (Monday to Friday, 7:30am-6:30pm). Patients can self-refer, or they can be referred to the service by their doctor or other health professional.

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