The Cardiac Rehabilitation program at Pella Regional Health Center serves to help restore a patient’s optimal health after a heart event on an outpatient basis.

Conditions that may qualify for cardiac rehabilitation include a heart attack in the last 12 months, coronary bypass surgery, stable angina, heart valve repair or replacement, heart stents, heart transplant surgery, compensated heart failure and cardiomyopathy. Classes for the program meet three times a week and BSN/RN Kelly Voorhis says that those provide both exercise and education for their patient’s recovery.

“So, patients typically come on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and they’re here for about an hour and that hour entails an exercise portion where we’re trying to build their intensity as well as their endurance on different pieces of equipment. And then we have different people come and speak, the dietitian, the pharmacist that will come and aid in different education pieces for the patient, and we also do some education as well on different heart topics.”

Hear more about the Cardiac Rehabilitation program at Pella Regional Health Center on today’s Let’s Talk Pella.