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Expanding access to lifestyle medicine in underserved communities

Research shows that the burden of chronic disease falls disproportionately on communities with limited access to affordable, culturally responsive healthcare due to location, income level and other factors.

ACLM is committed to ensuring that the benefits of lifestyle medicine reach all people, regardless of zip code, income or background by:

  • Expanding clinician education and care delivery models, like lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments (LMSMAs), through Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
  • Developing education, training and implementation models that are culturally responsive
  • Supporting a trained workforce that reflects the communities being served
  • Strengthening community engagement and partnerships for long-term impact

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Education and Implementation Support

We work with administrators and clinicians to understand how to best meet the unique goals of high-need, low-resource settings.

A phased approach to integrating lifestyle medicine generally includes:

  • Training for members of the interprofessional care team.
  • Implementation resources and access to communities of practice developed specifically to accelerate clinical delivery within underserved areas
  • Support to integrate lifestyle medicine within existing workflows and connecting with community resources through the Community Engaged Lifestyle Medicine model, an evidence-based, published framework developed by clinicians working with medically underserved populations.

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Where lifestyle medicine is making an impact in underserved communities

Lifestyle medicine is embedded in underserved communities across the nation, bringing evidence-based approaches to communities that need it most. Clinicians in these areas are using lifestyle medicine interventions to address chronic disease and improve health outcomes where traditional resources are limited.

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Chronic Disease

Lifestyle medicine for all: Interventions for treating chronic disease in under-resourced patient populations

No matter practice type, advancing lifestyle medicine interventions for patient populations most at-risk for lifestyle-related chronic diseases is a priority for board-certified lifestyle medicine clinicians.

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Chronic Disease

Health care, not sick care: Giving patients what they really want

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Clinical & Community Integration

ACLM celebrates National Health Center Week and FQHC/CHC clinicians all year long

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Scholarship support

ACLM aims to remove the financial burden for those serving medically under-resourced communities to pursue advanced training in lifestyle medicine. Through scholarship support, our goal is to develop leaders who can lead care teams and catalyze long-term sustainability within high-need, low resource settings.

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