This good to go segment is
sponsored by Corwell Health,
formerly Spectrum Health.
Corwell health W,
formerly Spectrum Health,
is now offering critical intensive
cardiac rehabilitation.
It's a clinically proven program
that provides comprehensive cardiac
rehab for patients who have
undergone a cardiac procedure or
experienced a cardiovascular event.
Here to tell us more about the
program is Doctor Thomas Boyden,
Corwell Health West medical
director for preventive cardiology
and cardiac rehabilitation.
And it is good to have you here.
Doctor Boyden,
thank you very much for having me.
Tell me about this critical intensive
cardiac rehabilitation program.
What is it?
So it's really
a comprehensive program really aimed
at getting people back their quality
of life and leading a healthier life
after they've had a cardiovascular
event like a heart attack or they've
had medical procedures or surgeries
on their heart like stents or bypass
surgery or even valve surgery.
What are the benefits of this
program for heart patients?
Absolutely. So there's several benefits
all based around what this program is,
which is in part kind of an exercise.
This program but also very much educational
about healthy behaviors as well as nutrition.
And so the real benefits are that
people are going to feel better,
they're going to have a
better quality of life,
they're less likely to have future events.
There's they're less likely to have
the need for future cardiac procedures
and they're more likely to stay
out of the hospital in the future.
Overall, better outcomes for
sure program reimbursable through
insurance or through Medicaid.
Similarly, as long as you meet
one of the qualifying diagnosis,
this is covered by CMS, the Center
for Medicaid and Medicare Services.
It's also covered by pretty much every
private insurance company as well.
And those, those qualifying diagnosis
are kind of what I talked about earlier,
an event with your heart,
whether it's a heart attack or
unstable angina or a medical procedure
like a heart stent or surgery like.
Transplant like valve surgery,
like bypass surgery and as long as you
meet one of those qualifying diagnosis,
it's covered by insurance.
And so is this something that that my
physician might refer me to or do I,
am I already in the care of a of a
cardiac physician? How does that work?
Usually if you had one of these
events or you just had a recent
intervention of some sort,
you're typically under the care of a
cardiologist or a cardiothoracic surgeon.
And and we always try to make sure
that people are referred to cardiac
rehabilitation after these events
and procedures because it's it's
known to help improve outcomes
like we already talked about.
But in case like you know you moved
to the area or you had an event and
there was some mix up with follow up,
your primary care doctor could refer you
to cardiac rehab rehabilitation directly
and where is corwell health
offering this program?
Yeah, so our intensive cardiac
rehabilitation program is.
Is offered at our main cardiac rehab center,
which is here in Grand Rapids
at 292902 Bradford St,
very close to the corner
of Bradford and Beltline.
And we really are trying to get most
of our participants into intensive
cardiac rehab versus traditional
cardiac rehab because the benefits
have been proven through the clinical
research and they improve outcomes
even above and beyond what our
traditional cardiac rehab does.
That's awesome. I know you're planning
some expansion to other locations.
Absolutely. So we hope to use this
as kind of a model for our other
locations and we have several locations
throughout the the West Michigan area.
And so hopefully we will start seeing those,
those satellite locations open up
intensive cardiac rehab as well.
All right, all good news folks.
To learn more about Corwell
healthwest ICR program,
visit spectrumhealth.org and
search cardiac rehabilitation.
Dr Boyden, thanks so much.
Thank you very much for your time.
I appreciate it.