Morris Cardiovascular and Risk Reduction Center is a facility of healing, striving every day to help create the heart of a champion for our patients and surrounding community. Today and for many years before cardiovascular disease has been the number one cause of death for both men and women in the United States, claiming approximately 1 million lives annually. Every 33 seconds someone in the United States dies from cardiovascular disease which is roughly the equivalent of a September 11th-like tragedy repeating itself every 24 hours, 365 days a year. By 2020, heart disease will be the leading cause of death throughout the world. In 2008, the total cost of cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease, hypertensive disease, heart failure and stroke) in the U.S. (This includes direct costs such as costs of doctors, hospital services, medications, etc., and indirect costs such as lost productivity.) We here at Morris Cardio are trying to take the essential steps into helping not only treat patients with heart disease but help prevent it for happening in the first place. We have created the perfect environment surrounded with the right tools to help stop this disease from taking any more lives. We have developed a program that we believe has the power to get people healthy and heart disease free. Our medical fitness program is evidenced-based created to help our participants reach and sustain their greatest health potential.
