Francie Astrom who a registered dietitian at WellWorks was our guest speaker in class today. WellWorks is an Ohio University wellness program that was formed by merging together two similar programs. The funding source of this program is by university wellness funds and is also supported by membership fees and fees for services like massage, nutrition counseling, and personal training. The purpose of this program is to provide a wide variety of programming, be wellness focused for clients to achieve optimal health, improve health status through health risk appraisals like Healthy Ohio, and provide risk reductions to find out health risks and how to reduce them. WellWorks mission is "to be the highest quality wellness program for our customers and to combine academic and experiential learning for our students".
The types of services and programs WellWorks offers are a fitness center, massage, personal training, wellness coaching, worksite wellness, blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, and HeartWorks. Any OU faculty or staff, OU retirees, corporate members, full time graduate students, and medical students can join WellWorks. Community members can join, but at a higher cost. The RD is integral to success of the wellness program to provide up to date nutrition information, review and interpret current literature, and act as a change agent to clients. Nutrition services provide nutrition education/counseling and counseling for disordered eating.
This program will positively affect RD's in the Athens community; it will not particularly affect my future career since I am not planning on staying in Athens once I graduate. There are many beneficial services and programs provided through WellWorks to improve the health of their clients. If there was a program similar to WellWorks where ever I may be in the future I would be interested in doing this type of work because it is a great program and really positively affects people's lives.
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