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congestive heart failure is a chronic disease it affects nearly 6 million Americans it is the leading cause of hospitalization in Americans over the age of 65 and one of the main causes of readmissions to the hospital South Suburban heart failure Clinic helps the patient proactively manage their Disease by teaching them self-care management strategies and works collaboratively with the Physicians and the cardiologists an emphasis is placed on the low sodium restrictions and menu planning also medication adjustments and that will be focused on all of the visits in collaboration with the Physicians and also big focus is on self-care guidelines which will be addressed at each visit as well as phone call support where only a phone call away whenever you need us since the clinic has started in the past six months we've had great success of the 46 patients that have been seen none of the patients have been readmitted in 30 days