Gateway offers medically supervised cardiac rehabilitation that strengthens your heart and enhances your quality of life. Whether you’ve experienced a heart attack, bypass surgery, angioplasty or angina, your primary concern is how to avoid a similar event in the future. You can learn how by participating in Gateway’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Cardiac Rehabilitation is an outpatient program designed to maximize your heart’s strength and help you live life more fully and confidently.

Strengthen Your Heart
Studies show that regular aerobic exercise is one of the most important factors in recovering from a cardiac event. But many heart patients fear overexerting themselves and thus fail to take advantage of the heart-strengthening power of exercise.

We can help strengthen your heart without fear. First, we determine your heart’s current level of function by administering an exercise stress test. Performed under the supervision of medical personnel using the latest in cardiac monitoring equipment, the exercise stress test demonstrates exactly how much and how long you can safely exercise.

Using the results of that test, we create an “exercise prescription,” a specific exercise regime designed especially for you. You then return to our cardiac rehab unit three times a week to perform the outlined exercises.

All exercises are performed on the latest in aerobic equipment under the watchful eye of our medical personnel. Your blood pressure, heart rate, heart rhythm and overall response are monitored continually via our wireless digital transmitting equipment. You strengthen your heart safely, effectively.

And a stronger heart isn’t the only benefit of our cardiac rehabilitation program. Within weeks of joining our program, participants almost unanimously report increased energy, decreased stress levels, reduced cholesterol, healthful weight loss and an improved sense of well-being.

Reduce Your Risk
Everyone who has experienced a cardiac event has certain risk factors that led to its occurrence. Along with strengthening your heart, our goal is to reduce those risks.

Through our educational seminars called Heartwise, we can teach you how to reduce or manage the stress in your life, how to recognize the warning signals of a cardiac event, how to avoid or reduce hypertension and more. The result: you learn to reduce your risk of cardiac events in the future.

Live Life To Its Fullest
Cardiac Rehabilitation can give you the confidence you need to enjoy a more active and independent lifestyle and to do the things you want to do—whether that means playing tennis, gardening, or simply returning to work.

Here’s How You Can Get Started
All participants must be referred to our program by a physician, but you can be pre-admitted by simply giving us a call. Our staff will schedule a one-on-one orientation to discuss your case, answer your questions, and determine whether your participation in the program is covered by your insurance. (Most insurance carriers pay up to 80 percent of the cost of the program.)

Do It Now
Strengthen your heart, regain your energy and reclaim your life. Call us today at 931-502-5070.