Cardiac Rehabilitation

If you’ve had a heart attack or heart event, you want to do everything you can to take care of yourself. That’s what rehabilitation is all about — helping you return safely and quickly to the routines and activities of your everyday life.

Beacon’s Cardiac Rehabilitation program provides a comprehensive, individualized approach to rehabilitation for patients with heart disease.

Program overview

• Each patient’s progress will be evaluated to ensure the program evolves at the right pace for each individual’s strength and endurance.
• The program includes group exercise classes with continuous EKG and blood pressure monitoring during rest, exercise, and recovery.
• Each program session offers personalized exercise routines, education and lifestyle modification techniques.
• Session frequency and program structure is based on clinical guidelines; schedules vary by location. Examples of session topics include educational information on how to reduce the progression of heart disease or exercise sessions for cardiovascular or resistance training.

Who needs cardiac rehabilitation?

Patients who have had any of the following procedures or conditions may benefit:

• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
• Heart attack in the past 12 months
• Stable angina
• Heart failure
• Heart valve replacement or repair
• Angioplasty
• Stent placement
• Heart transplant
• Exercise program for patients with Peripheral artery disease (PAD)

The benefits of cardiac rehabilitation:

• Reduce your chances for another heart attack or heart problem
• Control symptoms related to your heart condition
• Improvement of exercise tolerance
• Improvement of exercise tolerance
• Reduction of symptoms
• Smoking cessation
• Reduction of cholesterol levels
• Improvement in psychosocial well-being and reduction of stress
• Lowering of blood pressure

More than exercise

Our cardiac rehabilitation facilities have a variety of exercise equipment – free weights, treadmills, stationary bikes, rowing machines, stretch bands – to help improve your cardiovascular endurance, strength and function.

But cardiac rehabilitation is more than just exercise. We’ll also work with you to find ways to stay healthy as you live your daily life. We’ll counsel you about:

• The types of activities that are best for you
• How to exercise at home or at the gym
• How to encourage healthy eating habits for your specific needs and condition
• Improve psychological well-being or stress management

Meet Your Beacon Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Representatives

Your cardiologist may refer you into Beacon’s outpatient cardiac rehabilitation. The program is led by physicians and includes a team of nurses and exercise physiologists with educational classes from such experts as registered dieticians, nurse practitioners, physicians, or diabetes management clinicians.