Carda Health and Ornish Lifestyle Medicine Launch the First and Only Virtual Program Proven to Reverse Heart Disease

NEW YORK, May 28, 2026 — Carda Health, the leader in virtual chronic care for Cardiac and Pulmonary disease, announced a partnership with Ornish Lifestyle Medicine to offer the only program scientifically proven to prevent and reverse the progression of coronary heart disease through lifestyle changes. By combining Carda's national virtual infrastructure with the Medicare-covered Ornish Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) model, the exclusive partnership allows patients to undo heart disease from home with clinical outcomes and completion rates that significantly exceed standard in-person rehab. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death, yet traditional cardiac rehabilitation is hindered by travel barriers and low participation rates, which Carda and Ornish are removing through this partnership.

Ornish Lifestyle Medicine is the gold standard in intensive cardiac rehabilitation and for over 45 years, the program has focused on four clinical pillars: nutrition, exercise, stress management, and community support, to address the root causes of heart disease rather than just managing its symptoms. This partnership is a natural evolution, as it combines the clinical weight of the Ornish methodology with Carda Health's specialized virtual infrastructure.

"Heart disease shouldn't be a death sentence. We have data from 17,000 patients who have successfully changed their lives with this program, and now we are bringing it directly to people's homes," said Harry DiFrancesco, CEO and Co-Founder of Carda Health. "Carda's platform delivers care to people where and when they want. As a result over 90% of our patients complete the program and heal from home."

The virtual program is now reimbursed by Medicare and other major health plans. Participants meet twice per week in small, consistent support groups to focus on four proven pillars of health:

• Eat Well: Adopting a delicious, whole foods based nutrition plan.
• Move More: Engaging in moderate daily exercise and strength training.
• Stress Less: Learning stress management and relaxation techniques.
• Love More: Utilizing the healing power of community and social support.

To ensure patient success, the program provides a comprehensive Carda Welcome Kit including a tablet, blood pressure monitor, and heart rate monitor.

For healthcare providers, this partnership creates a solution they can trust that allows their patients to get better in a convenient way and doesn't cause them friction. For health systems they can enable a fully virtual suite of rehabilitation services through which they can ensure their patients have access to the only lifestyle program proven to reverse heart disease. Both Carda and Ornish are seeing significant interest from health systems and cardiologists eager to scale this program to their patients.

"I'm very excited to partner with the extraordinary team at Carda Health! Having documented in leading peer-reviewed journals what a powerful difference our lifestyle medicine program can make in reversing heart disease in many people, we can now scale this proven Medicare-reimbursed model nationwide to empower them with new hope and new choices," said Dr. Dean Ornish, Founder and CEO of Ornish Lifestyle Medicine.

This partnership follows significant growth for Carda Health, which has grown 5x over the last 12 months, and presents a unique opportunity to help millions reverse heart disease. The addition of the Ornish program reinforces Carda's leadership in chronic disease care and its commitment to delivering measurable clinical results and cost savings.

For more information or to check eligibility, visit cardahealth.com/ornish.

About Carda Health

Carda Health is the leading virtual care company transforming how patients recover from chronic diseases, with a focus on heart and lung disease. Through its proprietary digital platform, Carda delivers clinically proven home-based rehabilitation (HBCR) and chronic care programs. Each program combines one-on-one sessions with live monitored exercise, including real-time vitals measurements. Through these sessions, Carda enables patients to rebuild their strength and overall health safely from home while reducing readmissions. Carda Health partners with health plans and provider groups nationwide to expand access to evidence-based, cost-saving chronic care programs for members who face barriers to traditional rehab. Founded in 2020, Carda Health is redefining recovery through technology, compassion, and convenience.