Background and purpose: The clinical effectiveness of a post-acute care cere-brovascular disease program (PAC-CVD) in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system has been evidenced during hospitalization, but the long-term effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this research was to investigate functional recovery in daily living performance, cognitive ability, balance, and cardiorespiratory capacity at one-year follow-up. Methods: Thirteen participants were recruited. Participants received rehabilitation according to the PAC-CVD program, and outcome measures were collected at 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months after onset. Several functional measurements were used: the Functional Independent Measurement (FIM) and motor activity log (MAL) for daily living performance, the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) for balance, and the 6-minute walk test (6-MWT) for car-diorespiratory capacity. Cognitive ability was measured with the auditory digit span test (DS–auditory), spatial digit span test (DS–visual), and Symbolic Digit Modalities Test (SDMT). Results: The DS–Auditory, BBS, and 6-MWT indicated significant improvements in function over time, but the MAL-Quality subscale and MAL-total subscale revealed significant declines. Conclusion: Long-term observation indicated functional recovery in auditory working memory, balance, and cardiorespiratory ca-pacity that persisted for one year. At the 12-month follow-up, improvements in bal-ance, cardiorespiratory capacity, and auditory working memory, could be ascribed to the PAC-CVD program, but no treatment effect was found on the use of the affected upper extremity.