YOU COULD BE THE ONE THAT CHANGES YOUR COMMUNITY
Inspire better health by supporting Island Hospital's New Health & Wellness Center
Island Hospital is creating a Health & Wellness Center to serve your community's physical and psychological needs before they become a crisis. Through the power of your generosity and partnership, this center will be able to offer low to no-cost services and robust community health programs.The importance of community health cannot be understated, nor can the benefits of a healthy community.
The President and CEO of Community Health Charities, Thomas Bognanno said that "Community health impacts everything - educational achievement, safety and crime, peoples ability to work and be financially healthy, life expectancy, happiness and more."
By partnering with the IHF, you unlock a resource with the power to transform your community with access to not just better, but to the best health care.
The Health & Wellness Center is expanding our community approach to health care. Instead of reacting to a health crisis by treating restorative care needs, your contributions will aid efforts to increase preventative care. Not only can your support heal our community, but it will also directly offer life-changing health interventions.
In a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, research found that 80% of health outcomes have more to do with social and economic status, physical environment and health behaviors. Your financial support for the Health & Wellness Center will empower our community to bring that percentage down through community resources, education, health screenings and mental health support.
But your impact doesn't end there, it only begins.
The center will be equipped with resources to teach and train our community members, leaving them feeling empowered to flourish in their healthy lifestyles. Nutrition classes and cooking lessons by professional, credentialed dietitians will transform the patient into the participant.
But that isn't all! The center will offer additional services like:
