TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and the City of Tampa introduced a brand new neighborhood well being initiative on Tuesday, with the objective of creating Tampa the final word wellness vacation spot in the USA.
What You Want To Know
- TampaWell Activated by Tampa Normal Hospital is a multi-year effort in partnership with the Metropolis of Tampa that may deal with participating the whole neighborhood in preventative well being efforts
- The partnership will deal with three initiatives in 2022: routinely prescribing train and wholesome meals as drugs, enhancing health trails and parks within the downtown and adjoining areas and creating a neighborhood backyard and meals pantry in East Tampa
- TampaWell can even launch an app to make sure everybody within the metropolis has entry to the free program
TampaWell Activated by Tampa Normal Hospital is a multi-year effort in partnership with the Metropolis of Tampa that may deal with participating the whole neighborhood in preventative well being efforts. The partnership will deal with three initiatives in 2022: routinely prescribing train and wholesome meals as drugs, enhancing health trails and parks within the downtown and adjoining areas and creating a neighborhood backyard and meals pantry in East Tampa.
The Tampa Normal Hospital Basis is contributing $1 million to assist launch TampaWell and help its first 12 months of operation.
“Greater than ever earlier than, now we have an important alternative to create a novel and holistic wellness ecosystem that not solely improves the well being of our residents and the well being of our financial system, but additionally differentiates Tampa as probably the most enticing wellness vacation spot nationwide,” John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa Normal Hospital, stated throughout a morning press convention at TGH Household Care Middle Healthpark. “TampaWell would be the first of its type within the nation — a wellness revolution and neighborhood motion that may enhance the neighborhood’s well being and resilience.”
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, who joined Couris on the announcement, stated TampaWell will profit the town in two broad respects. Not solely will it deal with preventative well being and help the town’s most at-risk residents by serving to to deal with underlying social elements that impression their well being, however it’s going to additionally drive well being and wellness tourism to the town.
“The Tampa area is already prime of thoughts all through the sports activities world because of the successes of our Buccaneers, Lightning and Rays, and now we’re aiming to be a mannequin for the nation in preventative well being and wellness,” Castor stated.
The TampaWell initiative is modeled after the Wellness Valley, an internationally acclaimed effort within the Romagna area of Italy that describes itself as “the primary worldwide district of wellness and high quality of life” in existence. Wellness Valley attracts on over 250 private and non-private stakeholders within the area to help and amplify its mission of specializing in preventative well being slightly than the therapy of persistent illness.
Likewise, TampaWell is drawing upon the enter and participation of dozens of native organizations in Tampa, together with neighborhood teams, companies, sports activities groups, social providers businesses, and well being care suppliers, and will likely be actively encouraging further native entities to affix within the effort.
TampaWell has its sights on bettering these statistics.
With the foundational view that “train is drugs,” TampaWell will encourage physicians and different suppliers to systematically embrace bodily exercise when designing therapy plans. Together with wholesome consuming, bodily exercise promotes optimum well being and is integral to the prevention and administration of persistent circumstances.
The third main focus of TampaWell this 12 months would be the building of a neighborhood backyard at TGH Household Care Middle in East Tampa. The neighborhood backyard will present an area to find out about vitamin and wholesome consuming habits, together with educating the neighborhood to develop and put together their very own nutritious vegatables and fruits.
The neighborhood backyard will likely be related with a meals pantry in partnership with Feeding Tampa Bay. TampaWell will present and coordinate wholesome consuming and cooking courses along with our neighborhood companions.
TampaWell can even launch an app to make sure everybody within the metropolis has entry to the free program. The app will monitor particular person and community-wide progress and knowledge and provide customers info on well being prevention applications, showcase wellness tourism alternatives and native motels, embrace wellness occasion listings and share vitamin suggestions.
“TGH is devoted to empowering communities and reworking lives,” Couris stated. “TampaWell is the embodiment of that dedication. We’re thrilled to be working with the Metropolis of Tampa on this effort and dedicated to constructing further neighborhood partnerships that reach the wellness revolution to each neighborhood of our metropolis.”
