Comprehensive program
Skilled home health can help eligible patients understand symptoms, medications, activity, and the habits that support safer recovery or management of a heart condition.
Adults returning home after a cardiac hospitalization or procedure, or those whose provider orders intermittent skilled care for a heart-related condition.
Nurses reinforce the provider’s instructions, help patients monitor symptoms, and teach when to contact the care team or seek urgent help.
When ordered, therapy supports safe activity, endurance, and daily function while clinicians communicate changes to the provider.
We assess symptoms, safety, medications, and the provider’s instructions.
Patients learn daily monitoring and when to report changes.
The team tracks progress and communicates concerns promptly.
Evidence & practice
New studies support structured, individualized home-based cardiac rehabilitation for appropriately screened patients—especially when exercise is combined with nursing education, clinical monitoring, and regular care-team follow-up.
Home-based cardiac rehabilitation is more than an exercise handout. The strongest programs use individualized exercise prescriptions, objective reassessment, medication and symptom education, risk-factor support, and communication among the patient, nurse, therapist, and medical provider.
Peer reviewed · Post-PCI evidence
A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis included 12 studies and 1,392 patients after percutaneous coronary intervention. Compared with usual care, home-based cardiac telerehabilitation improved six-minute walk distance by approximately 19 meters, peak oxygen uptake by 3.53 mL/kg/min, left ventricular ejection fraction by about two percentage points, systolic blood pressure by approximately 3 mmHg, and medication adherence. Quality-of-life improvements were small and inconsistent, and lipid and mental-health outcomes were inconclusive.1
Peer reviewed · Heart failure
A 2026 meta-analysis of eight randomized trials involving 1,368 patients with heart failure found that mobile-supported remote, virtual, or hybrid rehabilitation improved six-minute walk distance by approximately 23 meters compared with usual care. No intervention-related deaths or serious adverse events were reported; however, the authors rated the evidence as low to moderate certainty and noted that limited events and short follow-up restrict firm safety conclusions.2
Peer reviewed · Program design
In a randomized trial after coronary intervention, a 12-week program using individualized exercise prescriptions, wearable ECG monitoring, weekly therapist supervision, and ongoing adjustments produced better aerobic-threshold capacity and selected quality-of-life outcomes than access to a general exercise library with self-monitoring alone.3
A separate 24-week randomized trial found that a nurse-led program combining structured activity, discharge education, nutrition counseling, medication-adherence support, and telephone and in-person follow-up improved cardiac quality of life and health behaviors while reducing cardiac anxiety among adults with coronary artery disease.4
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