About us
The Lion’s Gate Cardiac Rehab and Cardiometabolic Program is a collaboration of Dr. Kevin McLeod and Vancouver Coastal Health. The program has been serving the North Shore of Vancouver for over 10 years. We are a multi-disciplinary supervised exercise and education program for people who are recovering from cardiac related interventions or who are trying to prevent cardiac and other chronic diseases.
Primary Prevention
What if you do not have heart disease? Our goal is to help you improve your health. Whether you are looking to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors or just want to improve your fitness. We can help. Here are some examples of the conditions our current participants who do not have heart disease:
Elevated Blood Pressure
Elevated Blood Glucose Level
Obesity
Stroke
Post Cancer Treatments
Parkinson’s Disease
MS
Fibromyalgia
Arthritis (Osteo or Rheumatoid)
Lack of Fitness
How to get started
We are a referral based program. This means a referral from your family doctor is needed. You can obtain a referral form HERE.
Contact us
200-101 West 16th Street,
North Vancouver, BC
V7M- 1T3
What to expect
Once we receive a referral from you family doctor, we will contact you to set up an intake assessment. The initial intake assessment will take about 90 minutes. You will be seeing a nurse, an exercise physiologist and a doctor. An exercise stress test may take place during this appointment to determine your baseline fitness and help set safe guidelines for exercise. At this time, intake assessments may be done over the phone.
Follow up
There may be a 6 month and/or a 1 year follow up after your initial intake assessment if appropriate. Our office will call you to book these appointments when it is time. At this time, follow up appointments may be over the phone.
Pricing
Classes are subsidized through MSP, but not fully covered. There is a small fee for each class, billed monthly. Prices are 15$ per class.
1x week: $60 + Tax per month
2x week 120 + Tax per month
3x week $160 + Tax per month
