Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Offered by ACHS & NCHC

This highly successful 6-week program is free to participants.

December 26 2011 - Press Release

 

 “This program is well worth doing. I enjoyed it very much!!” “It was a very good class to take. Everyone living with chronic illness should take this class... Thank you - I got a lot from this course.”  These are just some of the great comments made by past participants of the “Better Choices, Better Health” Chronic Disease Self-Management program, offered by Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in collaboration with the North Country Health Consortium.

This is a free, six-week, 2.5 hours per week workshop for caregivers of and those with chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease, COPD, chronic pain, and anxiety. These workshops are led by trained workshop facilitators.

This highly successful program was originally developed by Stanford University and is now a statewide initiative through a partnership with Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Centers. The program provides a community setting where people with different chronic health problems get together for support and to find ways to deal with pain and fatigue, learn to handle stress, discover better nutrition and exercise choices, set and meet personal goals, improve communication with your doctor and more. This program is meant to compliment any ongoing clinical treatment of chronic disease.
 

To learn more about the workshop, you’re invited to stop by our table at Littleton Regional Hospital’s up-coming Open House on January 12th from 4-7 pm and meet one of the workshop presenters. You may also call 444-8216 for more information or to register for the workshop. Time, dates & location of upcoming workshop to be determined based on registrants’ schedules.

Funding for this program was provided by New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services and the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services.

Founded in 1975, Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc. is a nonprofit community health center offering a network of affordable primary health services. Our programs promote and support the well-being of individuals and families by emphasizing preventive care and encouraging active participation in one’s own health.

ACHS serves 26 New Hampshire towns in northern Grafton and southern Coos counties and has sites located in Littleton, Franconia, Whitefield, Warren and Woodsville. Clinical teams, made up of doctors, nurse practitioners or physician assistants supported by nurses and medical assistants, provide comprehensive services on a sliding fee scale to nearly 10,000 patients. For more information about ACHS, visit www.ammonoosuc.org or call 444-2464. ACHS is accepting new patients, call the New Patient hotline at 1-866-201-5076.