St. Francis Institute for Chronic Health | Bon Secours St. Francis Health System

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System launches the campus of ST. FRANCIS millennium with the introduction of the Institute for Chronic Health, the newest healing environment in the St. Francis health ministry. The Institute for Chronic Health is a transformational health model, redefining how individuals, the community, and businesses integrate resources for persons to achieve optimal health. Core services at the Institute for Chronic Health focus on identifying personal health risks, minimizing those risks and coordinating care for persons with chronic disease, such as diabetes, heart, vascular, lung and metabolic disorders. Services offered at the Institute for Chronic Health include:

Community Learning

Community Learning gives individuals and the community an opportunity to share triumphs, support one another, create knowledge transfer sessions, and innovate through collaboration, moving the whole community to a state of chronic health.

HealThy Self

HealThy Self, located on the second floor, features St. Francis programs of cardiac, pulmonary and vascular fitness. Upon referral by a physician to a HealThy Self program, clients meet with specially-trained nurses, exercise physiologists, dietitians and therapists. This care team works with each client’s physician to design a fitness program and individualized lifestyle plan that fits his or her personal needs. The team helps each client reach their individual goals in order to reach optimal health.

Early Detection & Renewal

Early Detection & Renewal, on the third floor, features multidisciplinary professionals specializing in the identification of personal risk factors that could lead to premature development of disease as well as focus on reducing an individual’s risk of developing secondary conditions related to a known chronic disease. Some of the tools utilized to detect and mange these risk factors include:

Personal health assessments
Blood and genetic testing
Advanced imaging such as:
Spect CT, 64 Slice CT, X-Ray; General, Cardiac, and Vascular Ultrasound
Holter Monitoring
Cardiac Echo
Stress Testing
EKG

At Early Detection & Renewal, clients are matched with a care team that provides them with ongoing, individualized medical management, care coordination and healthy lifestyle support to map his or her personal health journey.

St. Francis Sleep Center

The St. Francis Sleep Center is a valuable complement to the Institute for Chronic Health, providing a disease-management approach to the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up to patients suffering from various sleep disorders. Early detection of sleep disorders that correlate to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity is the primary objective of the sleep center.

Laboratory

Located on the first floor, this laboratory offers a full range of clinical laboratory and anatomical pathology services to support the clients of the Institute for Chronic Health.