Cardiopulmonary Care Management Program: The Rusk Institute Rehabilitation Network

The Rusk Institute Rehabilitation Network now has in place a program that provides quality care through every phase of recovery——acute, subacute, outpatient, and the promotion of wellness and a healthier lifestyle—for patients with cardiopulmonary disease.

The subacute component encompasses several skilled nursing facilities in the New York metropolitan area: Morningside House (Bronx), Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center (Brooklyn), Shorefront Jewish Geriatric Center (Brooklyn), Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation (Manhattan), Village Nursing Home (Manhattan), Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (Queens), and Saint Cabrini Nursing Home (Westchester).

Rusk physiatrists, nurses, and therapists work with their counterparts at all seven facilities to enhance existing programs, develop new ones, and monitor the overall quality of care.

Two of these facilities—Village Nursing Home and Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center--offer an inpatient subacute Cardiopulmonary Care Management Program with telemetry monitoring for cardiac patients during exercise.

The subacute Cardiopulmonary Care Management Programs are an ongoing collaboration with the Joan and Joel Smilow Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Center of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine under the leadership of Dr. Jonathan Whiteson, Medical Director of the Center.  The Cardiopulmonary Care Management Programs are prototypes with the same standards of care as the well established cardiopulmonary programs within the Joan and Joel Smilow Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Center. All facets of the subacute Cardiopulmonary Care Management Programs take a multidisciplinary, individualized approach to care.  They share the goals of giving patients enhanced activity and functional independence, improved health and symptom reduction, risk factor modification, greater awareness of a healthy lifestyle, and appreciation of the ‘mind-body’ association in the development and reversal of disease.

It is this full circle of care that makes the patient experience at NYU unique and that has resulted in so many successes for patients of all ages and at all stages of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.

The Rusk Institute Rehabilitation Network also offers continuity-of-care management programs for stroke and orthopedic rehabilitation.

For more information, please contact 1-877-RuskNet.