Our services
The regional cardiovascular rehab service gets you on track to better heart health. This six-month program is free of charge, helping to improve your quality of life through supervised exercise, education and guided lifestyle change.
Our weekly exercise classes are 90 minutes long. At each class, we monitor your progress, review your risk factors, and provide you with encouragement and motivation.
Classes can be scheduled in the morning, afternoon, or evening to fit your schedule.
Our weekly education sessions are designed to help answer your questions around cardiovascular disease and how to improve your cardiovascular health.
Weekly educational topics
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Additional heart healthy education
Our weekly education sessions are also supplemented by several additional workshops and classes offered by our multidisciplinary team of exercise therapists, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dietitian and certified tobacco educator. These sessions are available in-person and online.
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Regular physical activity is important for your cardiovascular health and can reduce the risk of developing further health concerns. An exercise therapist will work with you to develop a safe individualized exercise plan based on your personal goals and preferences.
Our weekly, supervised exercise sessions include:
- Warm-up exercises
- Strength training using hand weights or resistance bands
Each week, we will provide one-to-one counselling and support on risk factor management and exercise. We monitor your progress, review your risk factors, and provide you with encouragement and motivation.
We also will help to design individualized home exercise plans for your regular routine.
Our team works closely with you to put you on the path to better heart health. Together, we can partner to set and achieve your lifestyle goals.
We will educate you on risk factors, teach exercise progression, and provide you with the tools and skills for you to manage your cardiovascular condition on your own (and with your family).
Through our program, you will also learn to make heart-healthy choices with your diet, and we offer support to help you reduce or quit smoking.
Our aim is to set you up for success when you complete our program to be able to take charge of your health and achieve a better quality of life.
Heart failure is when your heart is not pumping blood as strongly as it should. When this happens, our body does not get the right amount of blood, oxygen and nutrients it needs to work properly.
Our specialized heart failure enhancement service is free of charge, and led by a registered nurse and nurse practitioner who help patients to understand the early signs of heart failure and when to take action so their condition won’t become worse and require them to be hospitalized. We aim to teach patients self-care skills for their condition.
With proper management of heart failure, patients can improve the quality of their life and potentially extend their life expectancy.
The Heart Failure Enhancement service includes:
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Regular checks by a heart failure nurse to track progress/health changes
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Weekly supervised aerobic exercise and strength training
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Support with managing medications
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Nutritional counseling
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Education on other health conditions, such as anemia, diabetes, dyslipidemia
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Connecting patients with community resources
After completing from our six-month core program, patients are often looking for additional support to help them continue to manage their heart health. We offer services for recent graduates with our team, and help them to move on to programs offered within the community.
Your heart healthy lifestyle does not end with graduation. Through the Next Steps Alumni services we aim to support your ongoing rehab journey. Through continuing education, exercise demonstrations, peer support and exercise tracking we will provide additional tools to help you independently manage your lifestyle goals.
Access to the exclusive Next Steps Portal is available free of charge, for all program graduates. Talk to your exercise therapist or contact nextsteps@shn.ca for more details.
Moving Forward into the community is a branch of services available to graduates of the Central East Regional Cardiovascular Rehab program.
These community-based services are offered independent of the Central East Regional Cardiovascular Rehab program and the Scarborough Health Network.
For access to the list of Moving Forward community partners, sign into the Next Steps Alumni portal.
Not a member? Contact your exercise therapist or email nextsteps@shn.ca
- Six-month core program
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The regional cardiovascular rehab service gets you on track to better heart health. This six-month program is free of charge, helping to improve your quality of life through supervised exercise, education and guided lifestyle change.
Our weekly exercise classes are 90 minutes long. At each class, we monitor your progress, review your risk factors, and provide you with encouragement and motivation.
Classes can be scheduled in the morning, afternoon, or evening to fit your schedule.
EDUCATIONOur weekly education sessions are designed to help answer your questions around cardiovascular disease and how to improve your cardiovascular health.
Weekly educational topics
- Alcohol and smoking
- Blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides
- Cold weather and exercise
- Exercise is medicine
- Exercise prescription and prescription
- Hot weather and exercise
- Keeping exercise safe
- Keeping on track
- Modifiable risk factors
- Reading food labels
- Resistance training, stress and sleep
Additional heart healthy education
Our weekly education sessions are also supplemented by several additional workshops and classes offered by our multidisciplinary team of exercise therapists, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dietitian and certified tobacco educator. These sessions are available in-person and online.
- Heart healthy eating
- Exercise and vascular disease
- Understanding heart medications
- Living well with heart failure
- Craving change
- Mindful eating
- Herbs, non-prescription medications and your heart
- Women and heart disease
- Smoking and heart disease
EXERCISERegular physical activity is important for your cardiovascular health and can reduce the risk of developing further health concerns. An exercise therapist will work with you to develop a safe individualized exercise plan based on your personal goals and preferences.
Our weekly, supervised exercise sessions include:
- Warm-up exercises
- Strength training using hand weights or resistance bands
Each week, we will provide one-to-one counselling and support on risk factor management and exercise. We monitor your progress, review your risk factors, and provide you with encouragement and motivation.
We also will help to design individualized home exercise plans for your regular routine.
LIFESTYLE COACHINGOur team works closely with you to put you on the path to better heart health. Together, we can partner to set and achieve your lifestyle goals.
We will educate you on risk factors, teach exercise progression, and provide you with the tools and skills for you to manage your cardiovascular condition on your own (and with your family).
Through our program, you will also learn to make heart-healthy choices with your diet, and we offer support to help you reduce or quit smoking.
Our aim is to set you up for success when you complete our program to be able to take charge of your health and achieve a better quality of life.
- Heart failure enhancement
-
Heart failure is when your heart is not pumping blood as strongly as it should. When this happens, our body does not get the right amount of blood, oxygen and nutrients it needs to work properly.
Our specialized heart failure enhancement service is free of charge, and led by a registered nurse and nurse practitioner who help patients to understand the early signs of heart failure and when to take action so their condition won’t become worse and require them to be hospitalized. We aim to teach patients self-care skills for their condition.
With proper management of heart failure, patients can improve the quality of their life and potentially extend their life expectancy.
The Heart Failure Enhancement service includes:
-
Regular checks by a heart failure nurse to track progress/health changes
-
Weekly supervised aerobic exercise and strength training
-
Support with managing medications
-
Nutritional counseling
-
Education on other health conditions, such as anemia, diabetes, dyslipidemia
-
Connecting patients with community resources
-
- Alumni Services
-
After completing from our six-month core program, patients are often looking for additional support to help them continue to manage their heart health. We offer services for recent graduates with our team, and help them to move on to programs offered within the community.
NEXT STEPSYour heart healthy lifestyle does not end with graduation. Through the Next Steps Alumni services we aim to support your ongoing rehab journey. Through continuing education, exercise demonstrations, peer support and exercise tracking we will provide additional tools to help you independently manage your lifestyle goals.
Access to the exclusive Next Steps Portal is available free of charge, for all program graduates. Talk to your exercise therapist or contact nextsteps@shn.ca for more details.
MOVING FORWARDMoving Forward into the community is a branch of services available to graduates of the Central East Regional Cardiovascular Rehab program.
These community-based services are offered independent of the Central East Regional Cardiovascular Rehab program and the Scarborough Health Network.
For access to the list of Moving Forward community partners, sign into the Next Steps Alumni portal.
Not a member? Contact your exercise therapist or email nextsteps@shn.ca
Our regional model
COMMUNITY BASED
Community programming close to home
REGIONAL WORKFORCE
Specialists on-site in patient communities to deliver care
PARTNERING WITH FAMILY DOCTORS
Ensure equitable access to all patients with vascular disease
CENTRALIZED COORDINATION CENTRE
Manages and triages referrals for patients from across the region
STANDARDIZED PROGRAM
Aligns with Canadian cardiac care guidelines
HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM
Electronic patient chart that supports clinical and administrative management