Cardiac Rehabilitation Program   

Charity Home Health Services has developed a comprehensive multidisciplinary program to help people recover from heart attacks, heart surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures such as stenting and angioplasty, co ngestive heart failure, angina pectoris, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, pacemaker implantation, heart transplant candidates or recipients, stable chronic heart failure, peripheral arterial disease with claudication, and patients’ with congenital cardiovascular diseases who may or may not have had surgery or other forms of cardiovascular disease.

The goal of our program is to provide education and counseling services to help heart patients increase physical fitness, reduce cardiac symptoms, improve health and reduce the risk of future heart problems, including heart attack.

• Comprehensive Multidisciplinary team consisting of Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Medical Social Workers, and Certified Home Health Aides.
• In home monitoring with Sentry Telehealth Monitors which collects and securely transmits data on five key vital signs: heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature, and weight.
• • Ideal for patients
  • • After a heart attack
    • Coronary artery disease (CAD)
    • Angina or heart failure
    • Heart procedure or surgery, including coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), including coronary angioplasty (balloon angioplasty) and stenting
    • Valve replacements or a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)

 Cardiac Rehabilitation Program includes: 

• Counseling so the patient can understand and manage the disease process  
• Beginning an exercise program 
• Counseling on nutrition 
• Education to help the patient modify risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, high blood cholesterol, physical inactivity, obesity and diabetes. 
• Providing vocational guidance to enable the patient to return to work 
• Supplying information on physical limitations 
• Lending Emotional support
• Counseling on appropriate use of prescribed medications