The Cardiac Rehabilitation Department is designed to help patients with heart disease recover faster and return to full and productive lives. Our professional staff works with your physician to determine appropriate goals and helps you reach them. This program includes exercises, education, counseling, and learning ways to live a healthier life. Almost everyone with heart disease can benefit from some type of cardiac rehab. No one is too old or too young.
Women benefit from cardiac rehab as much as men.
The program includes three hour-long sessions per week for up to twelve weeks. The first several weeks of the program focus on education with some low-level exercising. The emphasis for the remaining weeks is on an individualize program of exercise training, geared to the patient's specific needs. This training program is based on the patient's stress test performance. All sessions are carefully monitored by specially trained nurses and include activities performed on a variety of exercise equipment.