Cardiac Rehab & Wellness

While you are in the hospital, you can participate in a comprehensive educational program that provides information on the following areas:

• Normal anatomy and physiology of the heart
• Coronary artery disease
• Valvular disease
• Managing cardiovascular risk factors: smoking, high blood pressure, weight loss, diabetes, cholesterol, sedentary lifestyle, stress management, nutrition, medication, and activity

The Cardiac Rehabilitation program on the CMC campus is designed to help strengthen your heart after you have had heart surgery, a heart attack, and/or a coronary intervention. This program helps enable you to return to the daily activities you enjoy.

With a physician’s referral, you attend exercise and educational classes. Supervised exercise sessions are held for one hour, three times a week. Classes are led by an exercise specialist and monitored by a cardiac rehabilitation nurse specialist. You also receive individual nutritional counseling. Group education classes include information on:

• Nutrition: shopping tips, cholesterol, fat and fiber, and dining out
• Benefits of exercise
• Stress management
• Managing cardiovascular risk factors: smoking, high blood pressure, weight loss, diabetes, cholesterol, sedentary lifestyle, medication and stress management

After you have “graduated” from the cardiac rehabilitation program at CMC, you can continue your progress at The Wellness Center, CMC’s outpatient cardiac rehabilitation center. Expand your monitored exercise and cardiac education at The Wellness Center to speed your transition to living a healthy life.