Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Operational Standards

These standards provide an overview of the operational best practices for outpatient cardiovascular rehabilitation programs in Ontario.

What’s Inside:

This document contains 17 standards that are organized into four key sections. They provide the blueprint to strengthen the cardiovascular rehabilitative care system in Ontario and provide consistent, high-quality care across the province.

Section 1: Participant Safety

These standards promote safe patient participation in program activities, whether delivered on-site or virtually.

Section 2: Program Structure and Accountability

These standards move from who the program serves, how it is led and staffed, to the participants journey through the program, ensuring a consistent, high-quality participant journey.

Section 3: Cardiovascular Risk Reduction

These standards provide guidance to programs for the integration of physical, behavioural, nutritional, psychological, and pharmacological domains into a coordinated, participant-centred care plan that promotes sustainable health improvements beyond the program’s duration.

Section 4: Measurement and Quality Improvement

This standard is forward-looking and focuses on a potential future implementation of a unified, province-wide measurement strategy, which would entail programs collecting and submitting a standardized minimum data set.