ARH Celebrates Lifestyle Medicine Awareness Week

Lexington, KY – Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) is observing Lifestyle Medicine Awareness Week by highlighting the advantages of every day habits to enhance well-being and stop or enhance persistent illness. As the one healthcare system in Kentucky with a way of life drugs service line, ARH continues to prepared the ground in serving to sufferers, workers, and our neighborhood take a proactive strategy to well being by way of evidence-based life-style modifications.

Lifestyle drugs represents a elementary shift in how we strategy healthcare. Rather than merely treating illness after it seems, life-style drugs focuses on utilizing wholesome behaviors as a major solution to forestall, deal with, and even reverse persistent circumstances by way of evidence-based life-style interventions primarily based on six pillars. Those pillars embrace diet, bodily exercise, stress administration, sleep optimization, social connection, and avoiding dangerous substances.

“Lifestyle Medicine Awareness Week is a celebration of health, connection, and community,” mentioned Nika Larian, ARH Vice President of Wellness. “We wanted to create opportunities that not only introduced people to some simple ways to support their well-being, but that are also interactive and uplifting. Yoga, gardening, and spending time with animals are activities that reflect the pillars of lifestyle medicine and show how small changes can affect your health.”

Events deliberate for the week included:

5/19       Hazard PAWS-itive Puppy occasion; a possibility the place workers have been in a position to cuddle with some furry associates and study psychological well being and assets accessible.

5/19       Hazard Free Community Yoga Event: This outside yoga occasion was held at The Grand in Hazard and was free to workers and neighborhood members. Representatives from our behavioral well being employees have been there to supply info on the providers they provide. This occasion hit the pillars of exercise, stress administration, optimistic social connections, and sleep! 

5/21       Lexington Get Physical with Erin and Allie; Erin Day, Director of Employee Wellness, taught mild chair yoga for workers in particular person. This occasion was live-streamed for workers throughout the system. Afterward, whereas workers loved wholesome snacks, Allie Davidson, Lifestyle Medicine Clinical Service Line Director, talked concerning the new service line and offered recommendations on the right way to enhance your diet, bodily exercise, sleep, and stress administration.

Other latest wellness initiatives embrace the brand new worker gardens at Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center and McDowell ARH Hospital. Employees can work collectively to plant quite a lot of greens, fruits, and herbs to take pleasure in all through the rising season. The gardens are designed to encourage wholesome consuming, present alternatives for outside exercise, and be a welcoming house the place workers can join and recharge.

ARH’s life-style drugs providers present sufferers with individualized steering and instruments to assist more healthy residing. The program emphasizes sensible and sensible methods tailor-made to the affected person’s objectives and wishes.

During Lifestyle Medicine Awareness Week, ARH hopes to encourage workers and neighborhood members alike to prioritize their well being and discover the advantages of life-style drugs.

About Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH)
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) traces its roots again to 1955, when the United Mine Workers of America opened the Miners Memorial Hospital system – a community of 10 hospitals devoted to offering care all through the coalfields of japanese Kentucky and southern West Virginia. Seventy years later, ARH has grown right into a 14-hospital not-for-profit well being system that serves greater than 500,000 residents of central Appalachia annually. ARH hospitals in Barbourville, Harlan, Hazard, Hyden, Martin, McDowell, Middlesboro, Paintsville, Prestonsburg, West Liberty, Whitesburg, and South Williamson in Kentucky, and Beckley and Hinton in West Virginia, be sure that residents, tucked away in even essentially the most distant areas, can entry the best high quality of care with out touring hours from house. ARH’s hospitals, clinics, multi-specialty doctor practices, house well being businesses, house medical tools shops, retail pharmacies, and medical spas boast greater than 6,700 workers with a community of greater than 1,300 suppliers, making it the only largest employer in southeastern Kentucky and the third-largest personal employer in southern West Virginia.