Successful 2016 Community Campaign gifts new cardiac rehabilitation system to VMH

The Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation gifted a new cardiac rehabilitation system to the hospital with the funds raised through the many donations made during the community campaign held one year ago. This new telemetry system enhances the hospital’s Chronic Heart Failure and Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program by providing more reliable, accurate patient monitoring.

During exercise sessions, the nursing staff can focus more attention on patients while the system records and displays essential patient data and alerts staff to changes in an electrocardiogram (ECG). Updates can be made to patient information, plan of care, and progress notes without interrupting patient monitoring and reports can be easily generated for individual sessions or across multiple sessions.

Cardiac Rehabilitation is utilized by patients three times a week, so the need for this accessible, local service is ever growing. Veterans Memorial Hospital has offered Cardiac Rehab locally for over 25 years and has formed partnerships with hundreds of patients, rehabilitating them after a heart incident or heart surgery.