Mt Isa Hospital
Service Overview
Mount Isa Cardiac Service is an integrated part of Chronic Disease team located in Mount Isa Community Health Centre . The cardiac service is dedicated in offering various branches of cardiac service within the community of Mount Isa.
Team : Godfrey Martis ( Cardiac Nurse Practitioner )
Raylene Macnamara ( Clinical Nurse - Cardiac Rehabilitation )
Joanne Craney ( Clinical Nurse - Rheumatic Heart Disease )
Ayrton Marshall ( Indigenous Health Worker - Cardiac )
Services
Inpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
Rolling Cardiac rehabilitation program for 6 weeks , runs twice a week on Wednesday and Friday 9.00-11.00 and Education session every Tuesday 10-11 am
Heart Foundation Walking group - Monday 9-10 am
Outpatient (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
Cardiac Rehabilitation Maintenance program , twice a week on Wednesday 12-13.00 hours and Friday 11-12.00 .Patient must have completed Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation program.
Maintenance (Cardiac Rehabilitation) What is this?
The Heart Failure Clients are followed up 1:1 by the Cardiac Nurse Practitioner . They are closely monitored and managed by the cardiac NP and once deemed fit are integrated into the modified / individually Tailored Cardiac rehabilitation Program.
( Presently there is no separate HF exercise group )
Heart Failure Management What is this?
The chronic disease team provides range of cardiac Nurse Practitioner Led Clinics
- Heart failure - Nurse Practitioner Clinic
- Chest Pain Clinic - Nurse Practitioner Clinic
-General Cardiology and Cardiac Arrhythmia & risk factor management - NP Clinic
- Smoking cessation - NP clinic.
Eligible Patients
Diagnosis
Procedures