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 Cardiac Rehabilitation is a progressive program with a goal of helping patients restore and maintain optimal health while helping to reduce the risk of future heart problems. Cardiac Rehabilitation sessions at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth offer personalized exercise prescriptions, education and lifestyle-modification programs.
Patients who have had any of the following procedures or conditions can benefit from Cardiac Rehabilitation:
- Heart attack
- Atherosclerotic heart disease
- Angina pectoris
- Abnormal stress test
- Valvular heart disease
- Pacemaker or AICD
- Heart failure
- Angioplasty or atherectomy
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Heart transplant
- Cardiomyopathy
Benefits include:
- Improvement of exercise tolerance
- Reduction of symptoms
- Reduction of cholesterol levels
- Reduction of cigarette smoking
- Improvement in psychosocial
- well-being and reduction of stress
- Lowering of blood pressure
Insurance Coverage
Medicare and many other insurance companies can cover a large portion, if not all of the costs of cardiac rehabilitation for most heart problems. Insurance benefits will be verified before patients start the program.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Team
As part of Texas Health Fort Worth, the cardiac rehabilitation program's multidisciplinary team is lead by physicians on the medical staff. The team also includes cardiac rehabilitation nurses, exercise physiologists, physical therapists and fitness specialists as well as registered dietitians, pharmacists and chaplains.
Outpatient Rehabilitation Program
The outpatient rehabilitation program includes education and continuous EKG-monitored exercise therapy conducted by an exercise physiologist while under the care of a medical staff physician, rehabilitation nurse and exercise staff. After discharge, patients may choose to continue a maintenance program with a membership at the Texas Health Fort Worth Fitness Center. A maintenance program can be designed and discussed in further detail while in cardiac rehabilitation.
Sessions are held at the Texas Health Fort Worth Fitness Center from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Fitness Center is located on the Plaza level in the Sid Richardson Tower.
For more information, call 817-250-5055.
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