Atrium Health Navicent Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehabilitation, a Facility of Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Admission Criteria: (within the last 12 months)

• Congestive Heart Failure
• Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
• Myocardial Infarction
• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty/Stents
• Referral to the program, or a recent visit by a Cardiologist
• Stable Angina
• Valve Replacement/Repair

What is Cardiac Rehabilitation?

Experiencing a cardiac event, such as angina, heart attack or open heart surgery can have a major impact on you and your family. Often there is a fear of being unable to resume normal activities.

Cardiac Rehabilitation is the process by which persons with or at risk of cardiovascular disease, may be restored to and maintained at their best physical, emotional, social, and vocational levels.

Atrium Health Navicent Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, a service of Navicent Health, offers a cardiac rehabilitation program with a supportive medical and allied health staff. Our program incorporates education, counseling and exercise to help you reach your optimal level of well-being and self- sufficiency.

Early outpatient rehabilitation is designed for individuals who have recently experienced a cardiac event and have been discharged from the hospital. Most patients exercise three days a week for a period up to 12 weeks. All exercising patients are supervised and monitored for ECG, blood pressure, and heart rate, exercise is adjusted as needed.

A Disease Management program is available to participants who are at risk for Heart Disease, but have not experienced a cardiac event.

Outpatient Rehabilitation Program

The purpose of cardiac rehabilitation is to provide positive results for the patient. The goals are to:

• combat progression of cardiac disease.
• improve cardiac efficiency.
• reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
• improve resting blood pressure levels.
• increase work capacity.
• improve psychological and emotional well-being.
• enhance the quality of life.

Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin Cardiac Rehab, meets the criteria for 2022 AACVPR Program Certification

AACVPR Program Certification is awarded for a period of three years. To maintain your program’s certification status in good standing during this period:

• Certified programs are expected to have designated Primary and Secondary Program Certification Contacts throughout the certification term and to maintain up-to-date contact information with AACVPR.
• Certified programs are expected to complete an Annual Report and attest that they are maintaining the requirements and practices documented during the Program Certification process throughout the term of certification.

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