Carilion Clinic: A Model for Primary Care-Based Lifestyle Medicine
Carilion Clinic, based in Roanoke, VA, recently published, Lifestyle Medicine in Action: A 2-Year Evaluation of a Primary Care-Based Clinic in a Safety Net Population. With grant support from Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH), the Carilion Clinic team evaluated its primary care-based lifestyle medicine clinic two years after its inception. The research suggests, “A primary care-based lifestyle medicine clinic shows potential for improving patient outcomes in this safety net setting; broader impact requires improved access, support, and tailoring to context.”
Carilion Clinic also created the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic and Registry Toolkit, a practical guide for embedding lifestyle medicine services directly into primary care settings. The toolkit, designed to support other organizations in establishing a lifestyle medicine clinic and/or data registry, provides:
Electronic health record documentation templates for individual patient visits and shared medical appointments
Framework for building a patient registry, including initial data collection protocols and a complete data dictionary for tracking patient outcomes and quality improvement metrics
Practice-ready patient education materials
Background on Carilion Clinics’ development process to help other systems launch their own clinic model
Click below to learn more about the AIH-funded Carilion Clinic projects:
Extending and Advancing a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia
Enhancing and Evaluating a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia
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