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Albany, GA – The Mended Hearts, Inc., the nation’s largest cardiac peer-to-peer support organization, and RecoveryPlus.health, a national pioneer in remote cardiac patient rehab, have announced a new alliance focused on bringing medically prescribed – but often ignored – remote cardiac rehab to millions of patients recovering from heart disease or heart surgery and are unable to visit an out-patient facility.
Through this collaboration, patients with heart disease or other cardiovascular and pulmonary issues – or who are at risk if they don’t make lifestyle changes or seek treatment—will have access to therapies and resources that allow them to maintain and improve their heart health once they return home, avoiding rehospitalizations that are too common in the cardiac patient population. RecoveryPlus.health will be the first national provider of remote cardiac rehab for Mended Hearts® members, with a program that is reimbursable by Medicare and most commercial insurance companies.
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The partnership initially consists of these initiatives:
• Information about RecoveryPlus.health will appear in several issues of Heartbeat®, MHI’s quarterly magazine distributed to more than 100,000 members and others in the US.
• RecoveryPlus healthcare professionals including exercise therapists and cardiac care nurses will address multiple chapters of Mended Hearts members across the country to explain the simplicity of the program.
• Co-sponsored content will be developed for social media and other platforms,
demonstrating both organizations’ shared mission to scale accessibility to cardiac rehab.
• MH members and RP patients will share personal stories and experiences with heart disease, as well as their success based on participation in cardiac rehab.
“Cardiac rehab is an important step for patients on their road to recovery and optimal heart health. It can help improve a patient’s ability to function and their quality of life,” explains Jodi Smith, Program Director for The Mended Hearts, Inc. “Through this partnership we are excited to offer our members easy access to cardiac rehab services from the comfort of their own home.”
“Most patients face mobility or travel challenges that make it difficult to get to an outpatient treatment facility,” says RecoveryPlus.health CEO and Co-Founder Peter Niemi. “They have scheduling, financial or emotional reasons for not leaving home. This partnership with Mended Hearts opens our lifesaving services to this vast network of those with heart disease and advances our mission to scale access to cardiac rehab for those who need it most.” He added that Mended Hearts members will be the first to access RecoveryPlus.health’s upcoming free cardiac rehab app.
Plans are also underway to create a special co-sponsored education module for healthcare professionals about remote cardiac care, and information to support individual hospitals’ efforts for their heart patients.
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