Location Details
The Sentara Clinical Fitness Program is medically supervised to help patients recover from stroke, surgery or other medical issues. It is a highly personalized program in a safe environment designed for obtaining optimum well-being through supervised exercise and rehabilitation.
The program, created and managed by Sentara Healthcare, is offered in partnership with the YMCA of South Hampton Roads. The program is available at the Virginia Beach Hilltop and Mount Trashmore Family YMCAs. Sentara provides clinical expertise in the development and management of the program. A team of clinical exercise specialists, each with a degree in exercise physiology, offers individualized rehabilitative and preventive services for participating members.
Unique Program Features
- Required: a physician referral and YMCA of South Hampton Roads membership.
- Sentara clinical exercise specialists have 32+ years of experience in rehabilitative and preventive exercise instruction and are certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
- Our staff interacts daily with members, monitoring their exercise programs.
- Our members are predominately middle-aged and older with major medical conditions.
- We regularly share members' exercise programs and progress with their physician(s).
- We have an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on site.