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Health Care & Conditions

At GHI, we want to help you manage your medical condition and team up with your doctor to enhance your quality of life. We have programs, focusing on specific diagnoses, to do just that. In fact, we offer a variety of diagnosis-specific programs based on your plan type. To find additional detail regarding offerings available under your present plan, please select your plan type or condition from the left sub-menu.

Under our PPO plan, GHI programs for specific diagnoses can help you manage your condition and team up with your doctor to enhance your quality of life.

Manage Your Condition - for PPO Members
Arthritis, Depression, Diabetes, Osteoporosis

Disease Management Programs are voluntary and available to all eligible members who qualify, based upon diagnosis. Members may enroll themselves or may be referred by a GHI HMO provider. Members can also be identified as a candidate through welcome calls, health risk assessments, claims reviews and/or pharmacy data.

Manage Your Condition - for HMO Members
Diabetes, Personal Health Improvement (PHIP), Asthma, Post Cardiac Depression, Post Partum Depression

GHI has lots of information about what teens want to know, covering many health topics from visiting your doctor to your sexuality.

GHI Teens - Your Body, Your Life

Doctors can help detect depression and other mental disorders in their teen patients ages 11 to 18 by participating in Columbia University’s Teen Screen program, a recognized national model for teen mental health screening.

Encouraging children to eat a healthy diet may not be easy with all the available fast food and snacks, but it's essential for good health.

Request a "50 Snacks for Kid" magnet today, to help you make smart decisions about planning for healthy meals and snacks for your family.

Every pregnancy is different. Even if you have been pregnant before, there are always questions that you want to ask.

Baby & Me: The Essential Guide to Pregnancy and Newborn care

Pre-Conception Planning: Are You Ready?

Resources on improving self-management of hypertension and self-monitoring of blood pressure. These were compiled by DOHMH CVD Prevention Program:

Taking your Medicine

High Blood Pressure

Cut the Salt

The Blood Pressure Tracking Card is available in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
Here is a link to the English version.


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GHI Medicare Choice PPO offers disease management programs at no additional cost. Plus, our Care Enhance programs can complement the care you receive. Among the services we offer you are scheduled calls, round-the-clock service and ongoing education.

Our Care Enhance programs can help you:

• Improve compliance with your doctor's instructions and treatment plan
• Improve your understanding of your condition
• Improve and/or stabilize your symptoms

You can be referred into these programs through Health Risk Assessment or by your doctor. Or, simply call toll-free 800-622-9531 for information, or to refer a GHI Medicare Choice PPO member into our Diabetes, COPD or Heart Failure program.

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Obesity is a leading cause of significant health problems including diabetes and heart disease, which arise as the result of excess body fat and lack of exercise or simply not being active. GHI's health and wellness resources can help you reduce your risk of obesity by maintaining a healthy weight.

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GHI is interested in educating our members on the recognition of depressive symptoms and encouraging appropriate treatment, if needed. The following links provide more information on depression and how to seek help. We have also included an interactive quiz and an illustrated guide to assist our members with identifying possible depression.

The articles contained in the following links are provided by ValueOptions and WebMD.

Depression: An Introduction
Have you ever felt "down in the dumps" or had a case of "the blues"?

Depression Basics
Almost all of us feel low sometimes, usually because of a disturbing or difficult event in our lives. But ongoing depression is another matter.

Are You Suffering From Depression? An Interactive Quiz
Use this quiz in order to recognize symptoms of depression, and whether or not depression is a problem for you.

Smoking Cessation Programs come in a variety of formats. It is important to know you are not alone whatever format or method you may choose.

Your Guide to Stop Smoking offers you resources and information about smoking and how to quit.

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