Crisfield –McCready Memorial Hospital has received a $3,000 Rural Health Outreach Grant from MultiPlan, a leader in health care provider networks and the industry’s most comprehensive provider of healthcare cost management solutions. The grant will fund a LifePak defibrillator for the hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation and adult exercise room.
MultiPlan makes grants to help small, rural hospitals develop community outreach services like the very low cost cardiac rehab and fitness programs McCready makes available to local residents. McCready was one of just ten grant recipients among 123 hospitals that submitted applications.
LifePak is a simple emergency resuscitation system, which can be operated by any adult – not just health professionals – when someone suffers sudden cardiac arrest.
Having a LifePak in the McCready exercise area is invaluable. Cardiac rehabilitation classes are supervised by cardiac rehab technician Dianna Ford. However, local residents are allowed to use the exercise equipment when other exercisers or hospital office workers are nearby but no health professional is present.
McCready Hospital opened the cardiac rehab gym to local residents as a community service. The equipment is first class and includes the same type of equipment found at fitness clubs – treadmills, bicycles, rowing machines, recumbent bikes, elliptical machines and fixed and free weights. It costs just $10 a month.
Participants need a physician’s permission to join the program and must go through a brief orientation with Mrs. Ford before exercising on their own. The gym is open to fitness program participants from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and from 10:30 a.m. through 8 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
For information, call 410-968-1200, Ext. 3315.
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