{"id":333779,"date":"2026-05-27T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:04:06","slug":"record-150k-donation-to-boost-saint-agnes-fresno-cardiac-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333779\/","title":{"rendered":"Record $150K donation to boost Saint Agnes Fresno cardiac rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/saint-agnes-heart-group-donation.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"hospital check presentation\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Dr. Gurvinder Kaur (left) accepts a $150,000 check from Sant\u00e9 Health System and The Heart Group representatives at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>published on May 26, 2026 &#8211; 4:44 PM<br \/>Written by <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Sant\u00e9 Health System and The Heart Group presented a record $150,000 donation Tuesday to Saint Agnes Medical Center, the largest gift of its kind directed toward the hospital\u2019s Cardiac Rehabilitation and Lifestyle Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The donation will support patients recovering from heart attacks, bypass surgeries, valve procedures and other cardiovascular conditions through medically supervised exercise, education and lifestyle counseling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">\u201cThis is going to go a long way in improving the rehab facility here, in updating the equipment that we have right now, both for the exercise as well as the monitoring devices that we have for our patients,\u201d said Dr. Gurvinder Kaur, president and market leader of Saint Agnes Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The check was presented to Kaur during a ceremony attended by leaders from Sant\u00e9 Health Foundation and The Heart Group alongside Saint Agnes colleagues and hospital leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Saint Agnes established the program in 1979 as the first cardiac rehabilitation program of its kind in the Valley. It was later recognized and certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation as the first such program in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The program includes up to 36 EKG-monitored visits supervised by registered nurses and exercise physiologists, combining structured exercise with education in nutrition, stress management and long-term heart-healthy habits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">\u201cWe help the doctors practice with the patient and leave the administrative part of it to us,\u201d said Sant\u00e9 Executive Director Scott Wells. \u201cI think that combination is really getting the most we can out of every physician in the Fresno area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Gurvinder Kaur (left) accepts a $150,000 check from Sant\u00e9 Health System and The Heart Group representatives at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[138121,512,138122,112,114,136508,113,68355,5751,130985,138123,138124],"class_list":["post-333779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cardiac-rehabilitation","tag-central-valley","tag-community-giving","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-healthcare","tag-fresno-news","tag-heart-health","tag-nonprofit","tag-saint-agnes-medical-center","tag-sante-health-system","tag-the-heart-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}