Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Our comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program and pulmonary rehabilitation programs are designed to help you recover and improve your quality of life after a cardiac event or if you suffer from a chronic heart or pulmonary illness.
Our Services
Our comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation programs are designed to help you recover from a cardiac event or provide tools necessary to live with COPD or other chronic lung conditions
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Helping You Recover and Prevent Future Heart Attacks
Our comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program is designed to help you recover from a cardiac event so you can return to as full and productive a life as possible and prevent a future heart attack.
We offer preventive services along with a variety of rehabilitation options for patients who have undergone open-heart surgery, as well as patients with conditions such as congestive heart failure and angina or are recovering from a heart attack or angioplasty.
Our beautiful, healing space offers flat screen TVs, a separate aerobics room tailored for our fit classes and as always, our facility is staffed with Exercise Physiologists and RNs.
- Patients and families here for heart surgery meet with a cardiovascular nurse practitioner to discuss the procedure and ask questions before their surgery.
- The Cardiovascular Rehabilitation team begins working with the patient immediately following their procedure. Patients and family receive care, diet and activity guidelines to prepare them to return home.
- Outpatient rehabilitation includes individualized monitored exercise, dietary and stress management counseling, and smoking cessation, if needed.
- The cardiac rehabilitation gym is equipped with treadmills, elliptical, Biodex machines, recumbent bikes, a row machine, an arm ergometer and both free-weights and a multi-functional weight training machine.
- Cardiac rehabilitation "graduates" can then join members of the community at The Wellness Center. Along with gym use, they can choose from a variety of classes, including yoga, Tai Chi and strength training, all geared to the individual's personal abilities.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Breathe easier with our Pulmonary Rehab Program.
St. Anthony Hospital’s Pulmonary Rehab Program gives you the tools you need to live with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other chronic lung conditions, such as:
- Emphysema
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Bronchiectasis
- Sarcoidosis
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung cancer and lung cancer surgery
- Lung volume reduction surgery before and after lung transplant.
- Individualized monitored exercise tailored to your needs. Exercise will help improve your endurance and muscle strength, so you are able to be more active.
- Psychosocial support: people who have chronic lung diseases are more prone to depression, anxiety, and other emotional problems. The wellness counselor also addresses smoking cessation and offers support to maintain healthy behaviors.
- Weekly educational classes: providing Pulmonary Rehab patients with information regarding health, medications, oxygen therapy, breathing re-training, anatomy, energy conservation techniques, importance of exercise, self-care and nutrition.
Nutrition
PreventT2
St. Anthony Hospital is a recognized provider of the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program. The PreventT2 program is proven to help people with prediabetes prevent or delay development of type 2 diabetes.
During this program, you will learn how to reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes, set and meet goals, build relationships with other participants and work as a group with other participants to meet challenges.
For more information about PreventT2, visit the CDC’s webpage.
About the PreventT2 Diabetes Prevention Program:
Goals of the program
- Reduce body weight by 5%-7%
- Increase physical activity to 150 minutes per week
- Increase coping skills
What the program offers
- Proven curriculum
- 12 month program
- Weekly virtual classes for 16 weeks followed by twice monthly virtual classes.
- Supportive group!
- No cost. No insurance. No referral
PreventT2 eligibility
- Are 18 years or older
- Are overweight (BMI >/= 25 or >/= 23 for Asian heritage)
- Prediabetes diagnosis via recent blood work OR High Risk score on the Prediabetes Risk Test
- You are NOT eligible if you: get a low score on the risk test; pregnant or have been diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Getting started
- Classes start Thursday, March 26 at 1pm
- Classes are 1 hour long
PreventT2 is part of the National Diabetes Prevention Program, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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