Posted by: thepinetree on 02/05/2014 07:51 PM
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Biggest Loser Contest Providing Motivation for Medical Center Employees
Sonora, CA...Sonora Regional Medical Center is encouraging its employees to lose unwanted pounds in a Biggest Loser contest. Contestants have approximately three months to eat well and exercise to lose weight. The Medical Center is providing support to the contestants with nutritional therapy and biometric workshops to help them stay on track with their weight loss goals. Discounted exercise classes are also available through the Medical Center’s Live Well Be Well Center....
“Overweight and obesity has been identified as one of our community’s greatest health concerns,” explains Amy Rolston, Live Well Be Well Center Coordinator. “By building enthusiasm about healthy weight loss among our employees, we are providing a good example and helping to improve the health and wellness of our entire community.”
The winners of the Biggest Loser contest will be announced during the week of April 14. Individual female and male winners will receive $300 cash and the Medical Center department with the highest average individual weight lost will receive massages for all participants in that department.
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About Sonora Regional Medical Center
Sonora Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit 152-bed health care facility including 72 acute beds, 12 swing beds, 68 skilled nursing beds and a large network of clinics, owned and operated by Adventist Health/Roseville, California. In addition to emergency and acute care services, other Sonora Regional Medical Center services include advanced cardiac care, cancer center, diagnostic imaging, home health, hospice, intensive care, obstetrics, rural health, surgical services, wellness center, wound care and hyperbaric oxygen, and over 20 primary care, urgent care and specialty clinics. The Medical Center provided care for a total of 4,500 admissions, 528 deliveries, 22,994 emergency department visits, 288,542 outpatient visits and 37,225 home care visits in 2012. Staffed by over 165 physicians, 1,260 employees, and 175 volunteers, Sonora Regional Medical
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