The cardiac rehabilitation department provides the cardiac patient with quality cardiac rehabilitation services, including:
- Education
- Monitored, supervised exercise, to build fitness and functional capacity
- Assessment
- Screening
- Inpatient and outpatient stress testing
- Support
- Counseling, to promote optimal health and well-being, in partnership with the family, community, and other health care providers.
The cardiac rehabilitation program at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital begins while a person is a hospital inpatient, and continues on an outpatient basis. Many skilled professionals are part of the cardiac rehabilitation team and include nurses, exercise specialists, and a physician director. Patients wear wireless cardiac monitors and the cardiac status of all patients is continuously monitored for patient safety.
Patients receive individual attention from our staff, while learning and exercising in pleasant surroundings. Patients are organized into classes, and usually attend three days per week. Individual learning needs are assessed, and met through a combination of video presentations and one-on-one teaching. The classes also function as support and social groups, and participants often form lifelong friendships while in the program.
Patients may have one or more of the following conditions:
- Recent cardiac surgery
- Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
- Angina (chest pain)
- PTCA (angioplasty with/or without stent)
- Arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythms)
- Multiple cardiac risk factors (overweight, smoking, lack of exercise, elevated cholesterol, for example)
Patients are referred to the cardiac rehabilitation program by written order of their physician.
For more information about cardiac rehabilitation, please call 231.487.4441.