Officers applying for Occupational Disability (Heart Bill):

This is a guideline for your cardiologist in preparing a letter describing your Functional Capacity and Objective Assessment with Diseases of the Heart. Go to the American Heart Association web site at www.americanheart.org. When the site comes up, go to the top left hand corner and type in ‘Classification of Functional Capacity’ in the ‘search’ box, then enter for search. Click the first link, 1994 Revisions to Classification of Functional Capacity and Objective Assessment of Patients with Diseases of the Heart. Your doctor can now follow this guideline to assess the Functional Capacity of your heart.