Cardiac rehabilitation is a customized outpatient program of exercise and education. Cardiac rehabilitation is designed to help you improve your health and help you recover from a heart attack and other forms of heart disease, including Congestive Heart Failure or surgery to treat heart disease. Pulmonary rehabilitation is the use of exercise, education, and behavioral intervention to improve how people with (but not limited to) chronic lung disease function in daily life and to enhance their quality of life.