Center for Wellness Integration
Mission: SWAU leadership working in partnership with community representatives and agencies to provide support for the well-being of our neighbors.
Vision: Collaboration with the community to support engagement in whole-person wellness enterprises.
The Center for Wellness Integration represents SWAU’s commitment to serve our community and surrounding areas. To do this, Faculty and Staff will work together to
- Advocate for the health and wellness of community residents
- Utilize the experience and expertise of campus leaders and professors in collaboration with students to serve area communities in meaningful ways
- Support and partner with area initiatives and agencies in pursuit of assessing needs, and developing and implementing interventions to promote all aspects of health and socialization
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Keene Business Expo & Health Fair
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Southwestern Adventist University will host the Keene Chamber of Commerce’s 17th annual Business Expo, Health Fair, and Job Fairat the Leiske-Pultar Gymnasium on Sunday, February 23, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Admission is free and there will be a wide variety of activities and entertainment for all ages.
The event will feature live entertainment and a food court. Local businesses, health care providers, and non-profit organizations will provide activities, and giveaways at their booths. Several medical professionals will provide free dental and hearing screenings, and a number of local restaurants and youth groups will provide a variety of lunch options for purchase.
Southwestern Adventist University’s Kinesiology department will provide fitness assessments and recommendations. The university’s Nursing Department will provide blood pressure checks, health age appraisals, glucose screenings, and BMI (body mass index) scores as well as a Kids’ Health Zone with fun activities for young attendees.
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- 100% of junior and senior nursing students participated at September's Your Best Pathway to Health, Ft. Worth Texas, helping the serve the thousands of residents that received dental, vision, and medical care and other services.
- Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Northorp lead a grant-funded community assessment research project in 2016-2017. The results have guided recent community health education programming (Thank you Ardmore Institute of Health).
- Junior nursing students received Hearing, Vision, and Scoliosis training and as senior students lead out in providing these screenings to local grade school students.
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- The Wellness Counts health initiative began when funds were received from the Ardmore Institute of Health for a Community Engagement project in 2017-2018.
- Statistically significant results were realized for reduction in weight, BMI (body-mass index), HgbA1c, and systolic blood pressure for two cohorts of attendees of the Reversing Diabetes program.
- Our students participated in Service Day in 2018 and 2019, helping our neighbors and other community residents in a variety of ways.
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