Key Stakeholders United for Healthcare Transformation

As we find ourselves in the midst of a seismic shift in healthcare, transitioning from a fee-for-service to a value and outcome-based healthcare delivery model, there’s growing recognition that lifestyle medicine is the solution: it can deliver exceptional value and dramatically improved outcomes.

ACLM is convening individuals and organizations recognized as members of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Corporate Roundtable. These foresighted leaders understand what’s at stake if we fail to unite and take action.

Our collective vision: Sustainable human health, a sustainable healthcare system, and a sustainable world.

Founding Members of the Lifestyle Medicine Corporate Roundtable

Founded in 1984, Kashi dreams of a world where everyone embraces natural health.  As a natural lifestyle pioneer, Kashi is passionate about and committed to improving the health of people and our planet.  By providing great tasting, nutritious and progressive foods, Kashi enables people to achieve optimal health and wellness, while also leading them on a path toward embracing a natural lifestyle.  To learn more about 30 years of Kashi’s mission, sustainable efforts, values and roots, check out What We Believe on Kashi.com.

Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist educational health-sciences institution with more than 4,600 students located in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Eight schools make up the University organization: Allied Health Professions, Behavioral Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Religion. More than 55 programs ranging from certificates of completion and associate in science degrees to doctor of philosophy and professional doctoral degrees are offered. Students from more than 80 countries around the world and virtually every state in the nation are represented in Loma Linda University’s student body.

Western University of Health Sciences, located in Pomona, Calif. and Lebanon, Ore., is an independent nonprofit health professions university, conferring degrees in biomedical sciences, dental medicine, health sciences, medical sciences, nursing, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, podiatric medicine and veterinary medicine. WesternU is home to the Patient Care Center, where the best in collaborative health care services is offered. The Chronicle of Higher Education named WesternU a Great College to Work For in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Better Therapeutics (f/k/a FareWell) is developing prescription digital therapeutics for treating chronic disease. Its innovative solution combines software, human coaching augmented by artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to address the behaviors at the root cause of most chronic conditions, in a manner that can scale rapidly to address millions of covered lives. Better’s digital therapeutics are based on well-established evidence, fit within existing clinical treatment guidelines, and can be used with or without other interventions. Better believes non-drug treatment options are essential to reducing the unnecessary health and cost burden of chronic disease on individuals, payers, and the nation. For more information visit: www.bettertherapeutics.io

Premise Health is the leading direct healthcare company pioneering new models to deliver powerfully effortless healthcare. With more than 50 years of experience, Premise Health delivers unmatched quality, access and value through more than 600 health and wellness centers in 44 states and Puerto Rico. The company serves more than 275 of the nation’s most innovative organizations, including a significant number of Fortune 1000 companies. For more information on Premise Health, visit www.premisehealth.com.
 

Full Plate Living is a non-profit organization with a simple mission: to encourage, educate, support and inspire anyone who desires to live a healthier lifestyle. We believe anyone in any situation can do something that will affect their health positively. Even the smallest actions can lead you down a healthier path. We believe living healthy doesn’t mean eating food you despise, starving yourself, or spending endless time at the gym. Nor do we believe in gimmicky diets or too good to be true lose-weight-fast pills or supplements. www.fullplateliving.org

Are you ready to change - your life and the lives of others? Since 2002, Wellcoaches has delivered a gold standard of coach training, education, certification, and support, in partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine. Our programs are high-impact, science-based, and innovative. As a Certified Wellcoach® you become an expert facilitator of mindset and behavior change that generates sustainable healthy lifestyles, which prevent or treat disease, and foster well-being and thriving. You can impact some of the toughest challenges of our times.  www.wellcoaches.com

Lighter is the first technological platform built for both healthcare providers who prescribe food as medicine and their patients. Lighter’s software produces customizable meal recommendations and grocery lists based on a healthcare provider's nutrition recommendations and on a family’s food preferences, allergies, schedule, and kitchen equipment. www.lighter.world

For nearly four decades, Wellsource has been personalizing population health by designing innovative tools that are grounded in evidence-based lifestyle medicine, making us one of the longest serving and most experienced companies in the industry. Dr. Don Hall, founder of Wellsource, created one of the first health assessments for use on a personal computer – a contribution that landed him recognition by Time Magazine.

Today, our purpose remains the same: to serve as the first step to personalized population health by using the power of technology to drive informed decisions with actionable data. Health plans, employers, care and service providers, and delivery networks use our tools for predicting chronic disease risks and reducing avoidable costs. Learn more at http://www.wellsource.com.

Engine 2 is working to change the American diet for good by providing an easy-to-follow, myth-busting path to heart-healthy plant-strong living. Founded by #1 New York Times best-selling author and former firefighter, Rip Esselstyn, Engine 2 provides resources, education and events demonstrating the powerful benefits of eating the strongest food on the planet.  With an exclusive food line at Whole Foods Market, Engine 2 strives to make the healthy choice the easy and tasty choice. We want everyone to know that a plant-strong eating plan can help you improve cardiovascular health, control blood sugar, reduce cholesterol, maintain a normal weight, and increase overall energy and wellbeing. The fork-driven approach to personal healthcare is the most powerful medicine that physicians can prescribe to their patients! For more information, please visit:  http://engine2diet.com

The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) is a research tested lifestyle medicine education program, designed to prevent, arrest and reverse chronic disease. Founded in the United States in 1988, CHIP has impacted over 75,000 participants and generated 30+ published scientific papers. CHIP is a community based intervention program that uses behavioral change principles in a group setting, education in an entertaining style and modern adult learning tools to help participants make simple lifestyle changes that are proven to lower key risk factors in as little as 30 days. CHIP is a powerful disease reversal tool for health practitioners, community organizations and work places, to address the rise of chronic disease rates in a highly effective
manner.

Founded in 2005, Rouxbe provides culinary training to more than 400,000 individuals, health care providers and organizations around the world. Rouxbe’s revolutionary learning platform delivers online solutions that drive and measure outcomes and engagement while providing effective, lower-cost alternatives for teaching people the fundamentals of cooking as part of a preventative health strategy.

PAI Health is the company formerly known as Mio Global, an innovative pioneer in heart rate monitoring and wearables. PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence) is the first scientifically validated metric that empowers people with personalized insights on how much exercise they need to live a longer, healthier life. Using extensive data from over 45,000 people over 25 years, PAI has been proven to potentially reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other lifestyle diseases by up to 25% and extend lives by an average of 5 years. PAI allows organizations to assess, monitor and guide their people to better health to reduce risk and costs; and PAI provides individuals with motivational guidance on recommended physical activity levels for better health. Our mission is to optimize anyone's path to being healthier by making PAI available world-wide through partnerships with corporate wellness and health platforms, insurers, employers, wearable manufacturers, health providers and other industry partners.For more information, please visit www.PAIhealth.com

Forks Over Knives is a leading global multimedia brand in food and health, built around an award-winning 2011 feature documentary film. The brand focuses on empowering people to live healthier lives by providing the resources and tools to make a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle convenient and enjoyable. Its core businesses are a meal planner, a line of plant-based food products, and an online cooking school. Forks Over Knives also has four best-selling books, a top-rated mobile app, a magazine, and a website that is one of the most popular health and wellness destinations on the web.

Founded by David L. Katz, MD, MPH, DQPN provides disruptive technology solutions for dietary intake assessment, diet goal setting, and nutritional coaching. Diet ID is the first product to reinvent dietary assessment fundamentally so that it is all but effortless; takes mere seconds; does not depend on food diaries or logs. Our vision is to change the culture around disease prevention, disease reversal, weight management, and health optimization by building tools needed by clinical professionals and health-minded individuals alike. The science behind Diet ID powers a diverse group of organizations in disease management, wearable technology, corporate wellness, retail and environmental service. To learn more about the team, science, and partnerships, visit www.dqpn.io.

Blue Shield of California, an independent member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, is a nonprofit health plan with 4 million members, 6,800 employees and more than $17 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in San Francisco, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare health care service plans in California. The company’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality care at an affordable price. Blue Shield has contributed more than $500 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation. Contact your local agent or broker about Blue Shield of California products and services or visit http://www.blueshieldca.com/.
Boston Heart Diagnostics is transforming the treatment of cardiovascular disease by providing healthcare providers and their patients with novel, personalized diagnostics and reports, and integrated customized lifestyle programs that have the power to change the way clinicians and patients communicate about disease and improve heart health. Boston Heart looks beyond the “good” and “bad” cholesterol assessment that conventional labs provide to give a more complete and individualized picture of heart health. Founded by renowned cardiovascular researchers and led by seasoned lab and diagnostic executives, Boston Heart is one of the fastest growing health companies in the country. For more information: https://www.bostonheartdiagnostics.com
obVus Solutions, a Los Angeles based health care technology company, has developed the first clinically credible utility wearable named ‘minder’. The minder consists of the core device and an ecosystem of accessories which allows it not only to be worn as an advanced smartwatch, but also be worn on the back, neck, chest or stomach. The patented technology visually renders and coaches user ‘mindee’ posture and breathing. Every mindee is matched with a licensed health care provider ‘minderPRO’ of their choice. The minderPro can mind, motivate and manage their patients’ compliance in an environment which is fun for their patient and their practice. Learn more at https://www.obvus.me/
The idea behind fully is simple: Movement is good. When you move, when you are fully in your body, you feel more present, engaged, and alive. More of you shows up to work, to relationships, to life. From our popular Jarvis adjustable standing desks to our every-which-way active office chairs, to our many movement supporting accessories – anti-fatigue mats, treadmill desks and more – fully is all about helping you bring more movement, energy and joy to your work life. To learn more, visit: https://www.fully.com
EHE has led the way in preventive medicine for more than 100 years. With unparalleled experience, EHE fuses traditional and validated non-traditional methods to develop personalized care that boosts performance and facilitates longevity. EHE optimizes the experience for companies and individuals, engaging healthy employees through an integrated approach to wellness for both body and mind. EHE’s clinical staff and vast physicians network provide dynamic, proactive and innovative care tailored to the specific needs of each person. Through comprehensive medical exams and post-exam coaching and coordination, EHE makes individual health management convenient and holistic. EHE-enhanced care creates incredible value for your personal health and promotes a culture of workplace wellness. For more information: https://eheintl.com

HeartMath, is dedicated to facilitating a fundamental shift in health, wellness and performance. The company provides evidence-based programs, assessment tools, products and technologies for significantly reducing stress while improving resilience and performance. For more than 20 years HeartMath Inc. and the nonprofit research organization, HeartMath Institute, have demonstrated through clinical studies the critical link between emotions, the heart and cognitive performance. HeartMath methods for self-regulation and in-the-moment stress management have been published in dozens of journals and more than 300 independent peer-reviewed papers using HeartMath’s methods and HRV technologies have been published. Currently there are more than 12,000 citations referencing HeartMath’s work and research. Their clients include Duke Medicine, Stanford Business School, Stanford Children’s Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, NASA and Boeing. Dozens of school systems, Military and Law Enforcement Agencies, Olympic coaches and athletes and thousands of health professionals around the world utilize HeartMath solutions for stress management, self-regulation, increasing personal resilience and optimizing performance.

For more information, please send your inquiry to Director of Partnerships Martin Tull at martin@lifestylemedicine.org.