Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Wellness Center care teams offer personalized exercise programs and wellness programs on healthy living. Your exercise physiologist helps you create a personalized fitness routine. We motivate and empower you to meet your health and wellness goals.
Learn more about the wellness center here.
Wellness center services
The Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Wellness Center is a full-service facility with a variety of equipment and services. Programs and services range from personal training to cancer recovery.
- Bariatric wellness aftercare
- HOPE cancer recovery
- Postoperative care
- Peripheral artery disease (PAD) program
- Nutritional counseling
- Personal fitness evaluation and training
Contact Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Wellness Center for membership options.
Manage your recovery with cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Wellness Center provides outpatient cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. Your care team includes nurses, exercise physiologists, and respiratory therapists who specialize in strengthening your heart and lungs and helping you manage your symptoms. During your visits, we discuss your medications, symptoms, home exercise program, nutrition and lifestyle changes that can help lower your cholesterol, blood pressure and improve your overall health. We also help you cope with stress by providing support to you and your family.
Your insurance may offer benefits for the outpatient cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Our registration team can check with your insurance provider to better understand your coverage. A doctor's referral is required to participate.
Cardiac rehabilitation - 615-396-5511
Pulmonary rehabilitation - 615-396-4926
Cardiac rehabilitation
Experienced care teams at the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Wellness Center specialize in cardiac rehabilitation care following a heart attack, diagnosis of heart failure, and heart surgery. Our nurses and exercise specialists work with you to help strengthen your heart and lungs and manage your symptoms and recovery.
Cardiac rehab may be recommended for patients who recently had heart surgery or who have been diagnosed with certain conditions such as:
- Bypass surgery
- Congestive heart failure
- Coronary stent or angioplasty
- Heart attack
- Heart transplant or heart pump
- Heart valve replacement or repair
- Treatment for angina
Cardiac rehabilitation program features and benefits
When you choose Ascension Saint Thomas you are connected to a supportive care team, including doctors, nurses, exercise physiologists, and dietitians. The team monitors your heart and lifestyle changes to help support your goals. Your care plan may include home exercise programs and nutrition guidelines to help lower your cholesterol, blood pressure and improve your physical health.
Your care team works together to come up with a treatment plan that can include:
- Create healthy lifestyle habits and manage stress
- Improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels
- Increase self-confidence
- Manage medications to better control your heart condition
- Manage your weight
- Reduce symptoms and help prevent heart attack
- Return to work and daily activities more quickly
- Strengthen and condition your heart and lungs
