Cardiopulmonary Rehab

Cardiac Rehab

Our goal is to provide comprehensive care intended to restore and maintain optimum physical, psychological, social, vocational, and recreational status in heart patients recovering from a recent cardiac event. Patients must be referred to the program by their family doctor or their cardiologist with a qualifying diagnosis. There are three phases to the program.

Qualifying diagnoses include heart attack, bypass surgery, valve repair/replacement, angioplasty/stent, stable angina pectoris, and chronic heart failure.

Structured cardiac rehabilitation offers several potential benefits:

• Cardiovascular and general physical fitness
• Enhanced quality of daily life
• Reduced occupational losses and future health care costs
• Enhanced self-confidence and self-image
• Reduced blood pressure and heart rate at rest
• Efficient cardiac response (only small heart rate/blood pressure increases) to sudden physical or emotional demands
• Improve physical stamina
• Reduce the probability of having another or an initial heart attack; reduced probability a subsequent attack will be severe