They don't feel as alone in their fight against heart disease, and encourage each other to keep up the good work. Clearwater County Memorial Hospital, an acute care facility, has an extensive cardiopulmonary rehab program, directed by Amie Erickson, a registered exercise physiologist. Participants include those who had a heart attack, coronary artery bypass surgery or coronary angioplasty, people with angina, heart arrhythmia, hypertension, or other risk factors. Most insurance plans cover all or part of an EKG-monitored exercise program. A physician's referral is needed to enter the exercise program.
Close contact is kept with each patient's physician.
Observation of Cardiac Rehabilitation Week calls special attention to the dedicated professionals who promote the dissemination of information about coronary heart disease, its prevention and rehabilitation. His father, also a physician, moved to the Twin Cities to practice medicine before Dr. Guimaraes was born. He attended high school in Onamia, Minnesota and didn't decide to go into medicine for several years. In fact, Dr. Mike spent six years working as a computer operator before enrolling in the University of Minnesota Duluth undergraduate medical program. He finished medical school at the U of M in Minneapolis and completed his family practice residency in Sioux City, Iowa.