Adventist Health + Blue Zones
The Adventist Health + Blue Zones Solution
Why Adventist Health +Blue Zones?
Our mission–to live God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope–is directly tied to our purpose, calling, and vision for the Well-Being Division. We know that higher well-being drives better performance, lower costs, and longer, better lives. We searched for a world-leader to partner with us in bringing about measurable and sustainable solutions to improve individual, organizational and community well-being.
By partnering with Blue Zones, we are able to gain ground in shifting the balance from healthcare–treating people once they are ill–to transformative well-being–changing the way communities live, work and play. Blue Zones widens our impact from only reaching our hospitals’ communities in four states, to a global mission practice.
The Adventist Health + Blue Zones Solution
Our work with Blue Zones utilizes strategies for improving well-being by intentionally shifting investment in transformative well-being solutions. This is the Adventist Health + Blue Zones Solution. These strategies include:
Individual
Well-Being
Adventist Health Associate Well-Being
We know that we when feel better, we perform better. A healthy associate makes greater contributions, shows up to work more often, and reduces healthcare costs. We seek to empower every Adventist Health associate and their family to live longer, better lives. We do this by designing meaningful, innovative, and best-in-class associate well-being strategies.
Organizational Well-Being
Blue Zones Worksite and Campus Certification
Blue Zones is all about making the healthy choice, the easy choice. Research tells us that 20 percent of how long the average person lives is dictated by genes, while 80 percent is influenced by lifestyle and environment*. Bringing Blue Zones Worksite and Campus Certifications to every Adventist Health Worksite will influence behaviors through environmental changes that strengthen social ties, reshape spaces, and sharpen policies thus supporting healthy choices throughout our worksites. Together, we offer solutions for worksites to inspire associates to be happier and more productive.
Community
Well-Being
Blue Zones Projects
Just as making the healthy choice, the easy choice applies to our worksites, so does the same principle apply in our communities. Community well-being improvement initiatives are designed to incorporate this principle and many others into the transformative Blue Zones Community Projects framework. This framework will be given to every Adventist Health community to reinforce sustainable changes built in the environment, policies, schools, restaurants, grocery stores, faith-based communities and neighborhoods ultimately bringing well-being within reach of all citizens.
Community Benefit Solutions
As a non-profit health system, we design solutions to help hospitals intentionally and strategically invest Community Benefit resources for greatest impact. Innovating the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Community Health Plan processes drive measurable and sustainable improvement in social determinants of health and well-being.
Signature Projects
Building from a hospitals Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) priorities, Signature Projects innovate scalable initiatives that measurably and sustainably improve individual, organizational and community well-being. These scalable initiatives intentionally prioritize opportunities that support vulnerable populations* and align with our measurement framework of the Well-Being of People, Well-Being of Places and Equity.
Curious what a Signature Project looks like?
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