Services
Cardiac rehabilitation offers patients:
- Improved functional abilities
- Improved quality of life and self-esteem
- Reduction of related risks
- Increased knowledge of disease process and prevention strategies
- Improved adherence to healthy lifestyle choices
In Phase 2, each patient receives:
- Individualized exercise assessments and prescriptions designed for each participant
- Outcome based program with goals toward behavior modification and prevention
- EKG, heart rate and blood pressure monitoring
- A series of 10 educational classes on various topics including nutrition, stress, medications, risk factors and exercise
- Nutritional consult with registered dietitian
- Tobacco cessation counseling
- Prevention of heart failure education
- Support system
- Help with weight loss and diabetes control
Sessions three times per week for approximately three months