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Convening: Teaching Kitchens as catalysts of enhanced healthcare delivery
Grantee: The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, Inc
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $100,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
N-PALMS: Nutrition and Physical Activity in Lifestyle Medicine Services
Grantee: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $63,940.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: The N-PALMS program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) serves to increase nutrition and physical activity knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among adult patients in Lifestyle Medicine Clinic (LMC). The goal is to create on-site (within existing LMC) Full Plate Living (FPL) and Exercise is Medicine (EIM) services as well as partner with a local YMCA to embed these services in a gym setting. A growing body of evidence supports the lifestyle medicine approach as an effective strategy to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease. However, there is a need for insight into operationalizing the adoption of these services into mainstream healthcare as well as determination of optimal delivery locations. Leveraging the success of the existing LMC, this project will provide evidence of the importance of helping patients operationalize lifestyle prescriptions. Additionally, this project will serve to highlight the necessary personnel and space for optimal LM delivery.
Advancing Lifestyle Medicine activities within Integrative Medicine in Residency (IMR) Training
Grantee: The University of Arizona Foundation fbo The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $50,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: AWCIM will create and implement a novel and engaging Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Activity Module, consisting of twelve (12) prescribed activities for medical residents to engage in either alone or with peers. The LM Activity Module will allow for a deeper experience and understanding of the principles of LM. When embedded into mainstream residency training, the LM Activity Module will significantly enrich residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and skills in LM and increase their ability to counsel and recommend LM interventions for patients. The project will be designed to increase LM visibility with the ultimate goal of training all residents in LM and encouraging more physicians to formally pursue LM training and board certification, thus improving the health of our communities.
Saint Francis Lifestyle Medicine Program
Grantee: Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $69,350.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: The Saint Francis Lifestyle Medicine program introduces patients to the key concepts of Lifestyle Medicine using Shared Medical Appointments in the setting of a teaching kitchen and Shared Medical Appointments. Program objectives include instilling confidence in patients to begin their own healthy culinary journeys through the skills they learn during these sessions and equipping them with the information to accomplish vital tasks like grocery shopping, reading food labels, and meal planning all of which have a decisive impact on health. Other objectives include increasing physical activity; improving sleep hygiene, sleep quality and sleep duration; learning and developing techniques to better handle stress; understanding the importance of living with purpose and positive connections; and knowing the harms of risky substances. This will be achieved using a multidisciplinary team-based approach consisting of a board-certified Lifestyle Medicine physician, a professional chef, a registered dietician, a licensed therapist and an exercise physiologist in the setting of the hospital gym. The use of validated survey tools and software applications will allow us to continually monitor the effectiveness of the program, improve it, and expand it to more populations.
Scaling “Community As Medicine” via YMCA Partnerships
Grantee: Open Source Wellness
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $60,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Open Source Wellness (OSW) will partner with a diverse cohort of YMCAs from around the country to catalyze the design, implementation, and evaluation of “Community As Medicine” health coaching programs. This model is designed to combat social isolation and uplift the universal practices that underlie health and wellbeing MOVE (physical activity), NOURISH (plant-forward nutrition), CONNECT (social support), and BE (stress reduction) in partnership with clinical healthcare providers and payers. Core elements and values integral to this approach include trauma-informed health coaching, transdiagnostic group coaching, cultural humility, joy, and belonging.
Key activities include providing technical assistance to YMCAs in building individual and group health coaching programs, and supporting YMCAs in developing strong referral relationships with local Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Key outcomes are financial sustainability, strong data and analytics of patient health data, and supporting YMCAs in achieving their missions related to health equity, community engagement, and participation in their local healthcare ecosystems.
Exercise is Medicine Lifestyle Medicine (EIM-LM) pilot program
Grantee: Ohio State University Foundation
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $20,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke. Modifiable risk factors at the individual level which contribute heavily to obesity and obesity-related chronic disease include diet, activity level, sedentary behavior, sleep quality, and stress. The Exercise is Medicine-Lifestyle Medicine (EIM-LM) program provides the framework, guidance, and practice for individuals to modify their risk towards obesity and obesity-related chronic disease.
The EIM-LM program provides participants with weekly facilitated in-person group sessions over several weeks introducing and incorporating the six American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) pillars. The six pillars are “a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections.” Sessions integrate each pillar in a variety of ways including group exercise, handouts, facilitated discussion, hands-on plant based cooking, and mindfulness. The focus is active participation and practice incorporating the pillars into everyday life. We anticipate reductions in weight, systolic blood pressure, depressive symptoms, and stress, alongside increases in physical activity, whole plant-based food consumption, and goal setting among participants who complete the program. The pilot will last one year with four group sessions.
Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Curriculum for All Residents-in-Training at MedStar Health
Grantee: MedStar Health
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $100,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: MedStar Health’s Culinary Medicine and Nutrition Curriculum for Residents-in-Training provides MedStar residents (as well as other Graduate Medical Education trainees, including interns and fellows) with education on nutrition’s role in improving health outcomes, as well as training in how to speak with patients and administer nutrition education. The program will instruct residents of all 32 specialties at MedStar Health on the benefits of healthy eating and how to counsel patients to adopt healthier habits and nutrition specific to each of their needs, with the ultimate goal of forging culinary medicine into a foundational component of the delivery of care in the US healthcare system. Our goal for the first year of the program is to train 100 of our residents and have them apply that training to improve the nutrition literacy of their patients, promote healthier nutrition, experience fewer complications from poor nutrition, promote equitable healthcare, and ultimately lower healthcare costs in the long term.
Rural Lifestyle Medicine Pilot Program
Grantee: Lake Region Healthcare Corporation
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $31,500.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Lifestyle Medicine (LM) is the foundational approach to addressing chronic disease, the leading cause of death in the US. Our project aims to enhance our LM practice, improve its effectiveness in promoting and supporting sustainable and proven lifestyle interventions, and make it more accessible to our rural community. To achieve this goal, we need to strengthen our infrastructure through education and networking, purchase of technology, and offering nutrition education.
Our proposal includes LM certification through the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine of our providers and health professionals and sending team members to the Lifestyle Medicine Conference (LMC). The training will expand our LM team’s scope of practice and help them better coordinate patient care. Additionally, attending the LMC will help our team build professional relationships that will help us grow our LM practice.
We will purchase videoconferencing equipment allowing our LM team to offer their services virtually and expand access to care. We will also be piloting WHOOP, a fitness tracker, and use the data obtained to supplement our LM intervention and help our patients optimize their health. Lastly, we will partner with our local community stakeholders to offer hands-on learning labs to show people how to grow, prep, and cook vegetables and how to effectively shop to stock a healthy pantry.
Through our project, we expect to improve health outcomes, patient satisfaction, and access to LM services.
Healing Dayton by Treating the Cause at the Point of Contact: Phase 1 to Build Expertise and Cement Community Partnerships
Grantee: Kettering Adventist Health
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $69,019.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Kettering Health’s vision of whole person care aligns with AIH strategic goal 1-Establish Lifestyle Medicine (LM) as a foundational component of the delivery of care in the U.S. healthcare system by bringing LM into the mainstream of clinical practice so that clinicians are trained, tested and certified.
Objective 1- Build a Critical Mass of Lifestyle Medicine Expertise and Leadership across Kettering Health. Currently, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine curriculum is available to internal medicine, family medicine, and cardiology training programs. There is also a formal LM track in the internal medicine training program. We have a multi-pronged approach to build our capacity and expertise in LM.
Objective 2- Redesign Medical Training Programs to Make Lifestyle Medicine the Foundation for Curriculum. For our internal medicine and family medicine residencies and cardiology fellowship, we will redesign the curriculum, developing hands-on rotations with community partners. We will engage with all physician training programs to promote integration of LM into the curriculum.
Objective 3- Planning Pilot Lifestyle Medicine Healthcare Delivery Models in Underserved Areas. We will leverage community partnerships to bring whole person care to underserved areas of Dayton. Initial contacts include cooking classes and health lectures. We will also visit Loma Linda University Health System to investigate best practices and sustainable whole person care.
Virtual Latino/a Culinary & Lifestyle Medicine Sessions
Grantee: Inland Wellness Information Network
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $27,500.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Latino/a Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine physicians will introduce an online teaching kitchen curriculum entitled, “Latino/a Conversations: Food, Health and Cultura,” to educate individuals on the importance of healthy, plant-focused nutrition for mitigating cardiometabolic disease and provide practical application into daily food choices and preparation. The goal is to create an online presence by partnering regionally as well as statewide with our current national community-based organizations (VacunateYa, California Medical Association, Physicians for a Healthy California, Latino Health Collaborative, etc.). We hope this will equip individuals to then enthusiastically share this information with their respective communities. We also want to provide the "how to" skills in a teaching kitchen program by creating plant-forward, culturally-appropriate dishes and measure confidence and self-efficacy in adopting this pattern to other common meals participants have in their pattern of eating. A major part of our focus is to instill a sense of empowerment for individuals to take control of their own health trajectories going forward for themselves and their family members. We intend to provide an inclusive activity that teaches, inspires and contributes to achievable and favorable health outcomes in a safe, non judgmental and positive environment.
Whole Health Kids
Grantee: Edible Education Experience, Inc.
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $50,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Whole Health Kids invites low-income students in Central Florida to experience the natural cycle of food from seed to table, with the goal of deepening their understanding of food systems and increasing their motivation to eat healthy whole foods. Reflecting our goal to encourage examination of multifaceted systems, a field trip to EEE involves a well-rounded exploration of the people, histories, natural processes, and scientific principles involved in the food journey. In this field trip series, students explore the natural and sustainable systems of the Culinary Garden, and harvest organic ingredients for a plant-based lunch. Then, they take part in an interactive demonstration of a recipe or cooking technique aligned with the curriculum topic, led by experienced educators and chefs. Finally, we synthesize what we’ve learned in our teaching kitchen, where students collaborate to cook scratch-made dishes and practice the hard and soft skills involved in the kitchen. Lunchtime features a reflection of the field trip's impact on students. Critical thinking, confidence, and collaboration are the touchstones we return to to examine whether the experiences we give children will have lasting impacts. Student success stories often tell us of children who are cooking at home and trying new foods. These students are becoming more autonomous in their own relationship with food, as well as influencing healthy and socially fulfilling eating habits in their families and communities.
Enhancing and Evaluating a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia
Grantee: Carilion Medical Center
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $97,600.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: The goals of this project are to:
- enhance the quality of care provided in a Lifestyle Medicine (LM) clinic serving a medically underserved patient population in southwest Virginia (SWVA) through multi-level evaluation
- advance knowledge of factors associated with successful LM program implementation
- advance the field of LM through experiential learning for residents, dissemination of scholarly work, and sharing of resources.
We will automate the maintenance of a LM patient registry. This effort will improve data quality and reduce the burden of registry maintenance, enhancing the registry’s utility for evaluating outcomes. Registry data from the clinic’s first year and additional patient survey and care team interviews will be used to evaluate clinical outcomes and factors associated with successful LM program implementation. Finally, we will refine and pilot test resources for conducting LM group educational visits in medically underserved populations in SWVA.
Outcomes include:
- Automated data extraction and upload process for the LM registry.
- Impact of LM clinic participation on clinical outcomes.
- Factors associated with LM program retention, treatment success, and program satisfaction.
- Implementation of LM group education visits tailored to patients in SWVA in a Family Medicine Residency program and a local federally qualified health center.
- Scholarly presentations and publications at LM and research conferences.
A Lifestyle Medicine Convening on Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality: Understanding Whole Person Needs for Whole Person Care
Grantee: American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $124,380.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: ACLM will plan and host a multidisciplinary convening regarding evidence and priorities at intersections between lifestyle medicine (LM) and meaning, purpose, and spirituality (MPS). Leading behavioral science experts in psychology, positive psychology, and well-being will be recruited as advisors and speakers to ensure robust discussion and meaningful agenda setting regarding these intersections and application in medical education, clinical practice, and research. The in-person convening will bring together a select audience of approximately 100 key stakeholders, including LM experts and health care innovators, to engage with panelists and help shape recommendations for integrating MPS across the LM health care continuum. Both the convening and the materials developed as outputs, including an accessible toolkit/roadmap for bringing MPS concepts into evidence-based LM education and practice, will serve the goal of making whole person and psychological determinants of LM practice and LM prescription adherence information accessible to clinicians. A robust dissemination strategy to include academic publication, webinar, press release, website, blog, and other communication activities will be implemented for meaningful reach. Achieving proposed objectives will institute progress in how we prepare clinicians to address factors of meaning that enable healthy behavior change and whole health for all.
Catalyzing Value-Based Care Success with Lifestyle Medicine Principles
Grantee: American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $250,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Project Summary: Success in value-based care (VBC) requires physicians and their care teams to embrace population health advanced primary care capabilities that are highly aligned with the core principles of lifestyle medicine. The AAFP’s Value-Based University (VBU) Toolkit will provide a compendium of educational and practical resources to support success under the expectations of value-based payment (VBP) to a range of learners and applicable in a variety of situations such as residency programs developing VBC curriculum, organizations transitioning from a fee-for-service orientation centered on identifying and managing illness to value-based care that is person-centered and focused on health improvement and prevention.
The VBU course content described in this proposal is designed to catalyze VBC success with lifestyle medicine principles and equip family physicians with this essential knowledge and skill set to succeed in VBC. The proposed educational modules address a range of topics organized into self-guided modules that allow the learner to curate a custom educational experience. These components of the VBU Toolkit will support physicians and their teams delivering VBC in a wide variety of settings. Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine education into the toolkit facilitates making this practice central to the future of VBC. To help close equity gaps and ensure the most vulnerable patients receive high quality, whole person care is incorporated into their care plans and health goals.
Pickleball Court Phase II
Grantee: City of Ardmore
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $22,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
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DuPage Health(y) Eating and Active Living
Grantee: DuPage County Health Department
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $75,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
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Farm to Table Project
Grantee: Gloria Ainsworth Child Care & Learning Center Inc.
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $12,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Demonstrating the Value of Activating Employers as Agents of Change in the Implementation of Lifestyle Medicine
Grantee: Health Enhancement Research Organization
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $75,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
Translation of a facilitator-led lifestyle program to a self-directed virtual platform: a pilot type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study
Grantee: Johns Hopkins University
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $75,000.00
Report Status: Report not posted
Related Content: none
MGH Revere Food Pantry: Healthy Families Clinic and Teaching Kitchen Program: Year Two
Grantee: Massachusetts General Hospital
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $125,603.00
Report Status: Report not posted
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Grant Category Definitions
Lifestyle Medicine: Projects that contribute to bringing Lifestyle Medicine into the mainstream of clinical medical practice.
Ardmore Community: Projects that benefit residents of the City of Ardmore and Carter County, Oklahoma.
Health Behavior Improvement: Projects that promote purpose, nutrition, movement, community, connectedness, and sleep.
Other: Projects that do not fall within one of the above categories.
Report Status
*Report not Posted: Prior to June 2017, AIH did not require a Report Abstract as part of the Final Report, so for those projects there is no Report Abstract to post. Also, AIH does not require a Report Abstract for any Operational grants.
Project in Progress: Report Abstracts will be posted when the project is complete.