Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehab

Platte Valley Medical Center offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Through cardio exercise, caring support, and education, our rehabilitation team provides services to promote safe physical activity and the knowledge necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

The goal for Cardiac Rehabilitation is to provide patients with tools to promote healthy lifestyle changes and reduce risk factors through improved nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, and management of blood pressure, weight, diabetes, lipids, medication, and psychosocial well being.

In Pulmonary Rehabilitation, our goal is to reduce symptoms of shortness of breath and fatigue, increase knowledge of pulmonary disease, enhance exercise tolerance, reduce anxiety and depression, and improve overall quality of life.

Education

Through our Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation program, we offer informal educational workshops as well as one-on-one training in the following areas:

• Dietary/Nutrition Management

• Energy Conservation

• Exercise Benefits & Precautions

• Stress Management & Relaxation

• Medication Management

• Risk Factor Identification

• Managing Cholesterol

• Blood Pressure

• Diabetes and Heart Disease

• Smoking Cessation

• Airway Management

• Pulmonary Hygiene

Customized topics are also available at our patients' requests.

Exercise Sessions

Exercise sessions are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

A registered nurse monitors each exercise session. Emergency equipment is available at all times.

All participants are evaluated and will receive an individualized exercise prescription that includes:

• A variety of exercise modalities: treadmill, air-dyne bicycle, recumbent bicycle, arm ergometer and rowing machine.

• Frequency of exercise

• Duration of exercise time

• Intensity of exercise

Maintenance Program

A supervised maintenance exercise program is also offered for participants upon completion of outpatient rehabilitation.

Exercise sessions for Maintenance Program participants are held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for $4.00 per visit.

A resting blood pressure is taken at the beginning of each supervised exercise session and educational information is provided per participant request.

Emergency equipment is available at all times.

Admission Criteria / Covered

A physician referral is required to participate in the Cardiac or Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program. Patients with the following diagnoses may qualify for admission into the program.

Cardiac Rehabilitation: Myocardial Infarct, Stable/Unstable Angina, Heart Valve Repair or Replacement, Coronary Artery Stent Placement, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, and complications of CAD.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Pulmonary Vascular conditions, Restrictive Pulmonary Disease, Lung transplantation, Occupational or Environmental Lung Disease, Interstitial Lung Disease and Asthma.