3.17.2010
News Room: St. Elizabeth Offers Weight-Management Program
The St. Elizabeth Weight Management Center is offering Healthy Directions, a 10-week adult weight-management program, beginning on Monday, April 12, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Healthy Directions is a program designed to provide each participant with the tools they need for weight loss and maintenance. The goal is to improve health by practicing healthy lifestyle choices. The program includes a Healthy Directions workbook, personalized nutrition assessment, weekly educational classes taught by registered dietitian, goal and food intake monitoring, motivation, support and encouragement, and healthy cooking demonstrations and recipe sampling.
Healthy Directions sessions are offered weekly for 10 weeks at St. Elizabeth Florence, 4900 Houston Road in Florence. The cost is $250 for the 10-week session. The free introduction is April 5 and weekly sessions run from April 12 through June 14, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Please call 859-212-GOAL (4625) to register.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
St. Elizabeth Healthcare features six facilities throughout Northern Kentucky—St. Elizabeth Covington, St. Elizabeth Edgewood, St. Elizabeth Falmouth, St. Elizabeth Florence, St. Elizabeth Fort Thomas, and St. Elizabeth Grant. It also has vast resources to serve the Greater Cincinnati area, including 1,192 licensed beds, more than 6,000 employees, more than 900 physicians with admitting privileges, 34 primary care office locations, and five free-standing imaging centers. St. Elizabeth Healthcare is sponsored by the Diocese of Covington, providing an estimated $68.6 million in uncompensated care and benefit to the community in 2008.