For serious healthcare, Gateway Regional Medical Center offers the quality, skills and experience necessary to care for your entire family. Whether you or your loved one requires critical or acute care for a heart ailment or other serious conditions, you can be confident that we are prepared to provide top quality care.

Under the leadership of board certified cardiologists, Gateway Regional Medical Center's cardiac services include:

• Cardiac Angioplasty with Stenting
  
• Cardiac Catheterization
  
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
  
• The assurance that Saint Louis University Hospital will provide care for more invasive services such as open heart surgery and heart and lung transplantation

Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Your road to recovery starts here.

Heart Disease . . .
strikes millions of Americans each year. You can trust Gateway Regional Medical Center's first-class cardiac rehabilitation program to get you back on your feet and back to enjoying life.

Cardiac rehabilitation is a proven approach to aid recovery from:

• Heart surgery
  
• Heart attack
  
• Angioplasty (balloon procedure)
  
• Chest pain (Angina Pectoris)
  
• Heart disease

Gateway Regional Medical Center has been committed to providing premier cardiac care for our patients under the guidance of the:

• Medical director
  
• Registered nurses who are ACSM certified exercise specialists
  
• Respiratory therapists
  
• Registered dietitians
  

In addition, you will continue to remain in the care of your primary physician who will receive monthly reports of your progress.
All programs are:

• Safe and supervised
  
• Provide ongoing education
  
• Assist our patients to make appropriate lifestyle changes
  
• Help patients learn how to slow or halt the progression of heart disease
  

Our professionals can assist you in acquiring a physician's referral for the program. Our rehabilitation staff provides the highest level of treatment possible to meet the challenges of living with chronic heart disease. The benefits of our care include:

• Strengthening and reconditioning of the cardiovascular system
  
• Helping control weight and lower cholesterol levels
  
• Maintaining joint flexibility
  
• Decreasing depression, fear and stress
  
• Improving sensitivity to insulin
  
• Improving nerve and muscle sensitivity
  
• Eliminating unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking and overeating
  

Dealing with heart disease is challenging, but with the help of our cardiac team, you will better understand your diagnosis, stop or slow progression of heart disease, gain confidence and enjoy a better quality of life!

Gateway Regional Medical Center's
Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

2100 Madison Avenue
Granite City, IL 62040
Call (618) 798-3659