The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at United Regional is certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). It is an 18-week program dedicated to helping patients with chronic lung disease improve the quality of their life.
This is accomplished through education regarding:
- breathing training
- smoking cessation
- stress management
- environmental irritants
- nutrition
- respiratory disease process
- pulmonary medications
- work simplification
- oxygen use
The program also includes an exercise component that helps patients increase endurance for participating in everyday living activities.
Chronic lung disease (COPD) is the one of the leading causes of death in the United States. COPD kills more women than men each year. A person with COPD dies every four minutes in the U.S. It is estimated that there are currently 16 million people in the U.S. with COPD, and possibly another 14 million still undiagnosed and in the beginning stages with little to minimal symptoms.
Physician referral is needed for participation in this program. See below to see our Pulmonary Physicians.
Meet Our Pulmonary Medicine Physicians
Satish C. Chada, MD
Critical Care Specialists of North Texas
1208 Brook
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Olufemi Lawal, MD
Critical Care Specialists of North Texas
1208 Brook
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Rafael Rivera, MD
Critical Care Specialists of North Texas
1208 Brook
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Jordan Terasaki, MD
Critical Care Specialists of North Texas
1208 Brook
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Musa Wadi, MD
Critical Care Specialists of North Texas
1208 Brook
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
Location and Hours:
Pulmonary Rehabilitation is located on the second floor of the Heart Clinic,
1631 Eleventh Street, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301, and is provided on
Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.