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
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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.
