Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation helps people with coronary heart disease or other heart problems return to an active, satisfying life.
There is strong evidence such rehabilitation helps to reduce future cardiac events.
RPH offers a range of support options for patients and their families including:
- Individual cardiac assessment by a cardiac nurse and physiotherapist
- Telephone support by a cardiac nurse
- Heart Health Seminars - open to all patients
- Supervised exercise in our cardiac gym
- Home exercise programs
- Defibrillator education and support group meeting
- Referral to local programs and services
Eligible patients
- Must live in East Metropolitan Health Service catchment or in rural areas via Telehealth
- Acute coronary syndrome patients including post Myocardial Infarction (STEMI/NSTEMI), Angina
- Heart Failure
- Post cardiothoracic surgery CABG/Valve surgery
- ICD/PPM patients
- Other cardiac conditions likely to benefit from Cardiac Rehabilitation
To refer a patient to Cardiac Rehabilitation, please send the referral to BHS.OutpatientReferrals@health.wa.gov.au
Heart Health Seminars
Free information sessions are run by the cardiac rehabilitation team, providing practical advice and guidance to help you and those supporting you to understand your heart condition and manage your risk factors and lifestyle.
The seminars are run on Thursdays from 10.15am to 12:45 pm on Level 4 in the Brian Vivian Seminar Room, Royal Perth Hospital.
Bookings are essential.
Phone: 9224 1308
Email rph.cardiac.rehabilitation@health.wa.gov.au.
For more information, download the Heart Health brochure (PDF 670KB).
More information
EMHS is responsible for providing public health services to the people who reside within its boundaries.
The catchment map (PDF 400KB) outlines the suburb catchment areas for East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS). The country areas that flow to EMHS are Kimberley, Pilbara and Western Wheatbelt.
Referral to a hospital for assessment and/or treatment is based around multiple criteria. These include:
- Place of residence – most hospitals have catchments to help service people closer to home. For country patients, the residence of family with whom they will reside whilst attending appointments can be taken into consideration.
- Age – RPH is an Adult Hospital, children are only treated by some hospitals.
- Hospital location of specialty services – some conditions need designated specialist services that are not available at all hospitals.
Please use this information to guide referrals to the hospital servicing your patient's residence, and inform your patients of these criteria when you are referring them for public hospital services via the Central Referral Service (CRS).