Your First Choice Among Cardiac Programs
The Cardiac Program offered at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospitals of New Jersey provides an intensive interdisciplinary team approach to the rehabilitation of patients who have undergone required or elective major heart surgery or who have had a heart attack. Our program is dedicated to providing the clinical, technical and professional resources necessary to promote progress toward an independent and productive lifestyle.
Special Features and Benefits:
- Comprehensive therapy services 3 hrs per day/ 6-7 days per week
- Specific cardiac protocol with individualized approach
- Cardiac Exercise Group with monitored telemetry
- Daily Cardiac Education Classes
- Comprehensive patient and family education and training
- Activities of Daily Living: adaptations and strategies
- Adaptive and durable medical equipment evaluation and instruction
Goals of the Cardiac Program:
- Pain management
- Improve functional endurance and stamina
- Educate in principles of energy conservation and work simplification
- Increase independence in daily living activities
- Facilitate community re-entry
- Improve specific and general muscle strength
- Teach independence in ambulation
- Educate patients and family in home safety
- Develop coping skills for patient and family adjustment to the physical limitations and change.
Clinical Services:
- Comprehensive Case Management
- Clinical Social Work
- Clinical Psychology
- Certified Rehabilitation Nurses
- Master Degree and Doctorate level Occupational and Physical Therapists
- Full medical staff
- Registered Dieticians
- On-site Registered Pharmacists
- Registered Respiratory Therapists
- Therapeutic Recreation
Through consultation with various professionals and by accessing and coordinating resources available in the community, each patient will be returned to the least restrictive environment with an increased awareness of his/her abilities. Health, clinical and behavioral outcomes are measured at admission and discharge. HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospitals of New Jersey are committed to getting our patients back to doing what they love most -- living.
To learn more about our cardiac programs, click here to contact us or call 732-460-5320 (Tinton Falls) or 732-244-3100 (Toms River) for more information.