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Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation helps people with a history of heart disease, and those believed to be at risk, feel better and improve their cardiovascular functioning. At Greenwich Hospital, the program takes a mind/body approach to wellness, emphasizing a healthy mind and spirit as well as a healthy body.

The program includes monitored exercise, counseling on topics such as diet, and education on stress management, smoking, medications and other topics. The Cardiac Rehabilitation team includes exercise physiologists, registered nurses and a registered dietitian. The program also draws extensively upon the services of pharmacists, psychologists and others from the hospital staff.

The exercise gymnasium, which is equipped with a broad array of machines, is located in the Healthy Living Center at the hospital's 55 Holly Hill Lane facility. The friendly, supportive atmosphere keeps many people coming back to exercise regularly, long after they have completed the formal program.

Level I includes individual counseling, group classes and monitored exercise. At the end of three months, patients "graduate" to Level II, in which they exercise at specified times under the supervision of health professionals but without telemetric monitoring. Level III, the maintenance portion of the program, may continue indefinitely. People in Level III may come to the gym at their convenience to work out.

For more information about cardiac rehabilitation, please call (203) 863-3195.

Physician referral form required.