UnityPoint Health – Marshalltown Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Quality Care, Close to Home

Cardiac Rehab

The cardiac rehab program at UnityPoint Health – Marshalltown is an AACVPR certified program and proud to have achieved perfect patient satisfaction scores. We help people recover from a heart event or procedure, including:

• Angioplasty or stent placement
• Stable angina
• Coronary bypass surgery
• Diagnosis of coronary artery disease
• Heart attack (within last 12 months)
• Heart transplant
• Valve repair or replacement
• Stable/chronic heart failure with EF ≤35%
• Peripheral arterial disease

We use a multi-disciplinary approach, as referring providers work with our team – a physician director, nurses, dietitians and pharmacists – to provide the best care possible. In 2022, our program increased quality of life by 20%, decreased depression by 48% and increased functional capacity by 55%.

Pulmonary Rehab

The pulmonary rehab program at UnityPoint Health – Marshalltown is proud to be ranked in the top 10% nationally for patient satisfaction scores. We’re here to help people suffering from chronic lung diseases including (but not limited to):

• Asthma
• COPD
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Fibrosis
• Interstitial Lung Disease
• Long COVID
• Lung cancer
• Preceding or following lung surgery
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Various diseases causing lung restriction (Multiple Sclerosis, obesity, spinal deformity, Parkinson’s and more)

Each participant receives a customized plan of care, including exercise counseling/training, education on the disease, medications, symptom management and more. We use a multi-disciplinary approach to provide the best care possible. In a typical year, our program increases functional capacity (by 44%), while decreasing depression (by 14%) and shortness of breath (by 29%).