Expanding the Impact of Whole Person Care

Grantee: AdventHealth

Year Funded: 2024

Amount: $250,000

Report Status: In Process

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Project Summary: AdventHealth (AH) is partnering with Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) to create a whole-person care approach to primary care delivery that leverages emerging precepts of Whole Health, including Lifestyle Medicine as articulated by NASEM, ACLM, AAFP, ACCM, AIH, Healing Works Foundation, and similar national thought leaders. Primary care delivery at AH (traditional care, Well65+, PCP+, and Centra Care) often prioritizes specialty referrals, making it a weak link in the clinical chain. AH plans to strengthen primary care delivery, making it a differentiator and aligning economic levers to support – to deliver primary care “the AdventHealth whole-person care way.” This proposal aligns with the AIH strategic areas of Lifestyle Medicine and seeks to bring lifestyle medicine into the mainstream of its clinical practice. The primary goal is to develop a scalable and sustainable approach to whole-person care that improves patient outcomes, increases engagement/well-being and decreases turnover. AH will expand the quality and influence of whole-person care in the primary care network while using the network's scale to positively influence payers and communities with meaningful economic and health outcomes. An essential element of this work is to introduce best practices, along with current practices around a whole-person lifestyle framework, to drive whole-person care in the primary care settings.