Cardiac Rehabilitation

Indiana University Health Blackford Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation is a comprehensive system of services, which includes the element of exercise coupled with education, counseling and behavior change interventions. Services are provided to individuals with known cardiovascular disease and their families. The purpose is to limit and reduce the physiological and psychological effects of cardiovascular disease. The scope of participant eligibility continues to expand both in the direction of secondary prevention (those at high risk for future and subsequent events) and tertiary prevention (those with known disease including infarct, post surgical, post procedure, transplant, heart failure and others). The primary goal is to equip the participant and their family with the necessary tools to assist them in making informed health care and lifestyle decisions. It is also the goal of cardiac health and rehabilitation to enable the participant to archive their personal level of optimal physical, physiological, vocational, spiritual and social health.