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WHAT’S INSIDE

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 A Note from Terrina Thomas

 The Big Picture: An Overview of  Healthy Edge Save the Dates
Healthy Edge
 Healthy Edge Program Highlight:
 A Look Back at 2016 Mission: Health Walkabout
Participation and Open Enrollment Stats

 What You Should Know About Mission:  Recipes for Warm Weather
Health
 Feature Article: Asthma & Second
 How WebMD Helps Us All Hand Smoke

 National Health Observances  Crossword & Closing Thoughts

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WebEx Fitness Weight
Series Classes Watchers
@ Work

Current Health Reduced
Biometrics Coaching Medical
Premiums

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Healthy Edge is an award-winning employee health improvement program
offered by Sentara Health and Preventive Services. Most of the services
available through Healthy Edge are free unless otherwise noted, If there is a
free for a particular program, employees receive discounted pricing when
available. To read about these programs in detail, visit the Healthy Edge
page on WaveNet.

Get Off WebMD Vending
Your Butt: Coaching Machine
Stay Smokeless Stickers

for Life

Mobile Cancer ACS
Mammo Awareness Newsletter
Program
Van Financial Incentive
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Let’s take a look back at last year.

employees completed a Personal Health Assessment during
open enrollment to participate in the Mission: Health program

In 2016, 10,161 employees attended 144

4,934 employees employees agreed to
were identified continue engaging with their
health coach
with two or more employees from 2016 will no longer
health risks need to engage with a health
coach
a
228,624 messages from the programs
decrease from 2015 weekly health campaign were viewed

2,550 employees

agreed to online
coaching, initiating
2008 Digital Health
Assistants

2,384 employees

agreed to telephonic
coaching; completing
4962 coaching calls

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Obtain Current Biometrics: Enter Results into
1. Go to a Mission: Health screening Your PHP:

2. Have a physician run these tests Hang on to the biometrics you
obtained. The first page of open
3. Visit an approved Sentara lab with a Mission: enrollment is the Personal
Health slip Health Profile. This is where
you will input your values and
NOTES:
verify you’d like to
 You can only visit labs locations listed on the lab slip participate in Mission:
Health.
 Results will be mailed to your home address and can take
up to two weeks to receive

 Screening and lab values will not be given over the phone

Choose a Coaching Option:
While you’re still in Open Enrollment, you will be placed into 1 of 2 categories:

 0-1 risk factors (automatic Mission: Health credit)
 2+ risk factors (will need coaching to maintain Mission: Health credit)

If you have 2+ risk factors, you will be notified and will have to
choose a coaching option before completing benefits selections.

NOTE:
Any field that is left blank in the PHP will count as a risk factor

Complete Your Personal Begin Your Coaching:
Health Assessment:
After completion of your PHA, you can begin your
Once the new year has begun, coaching.
you will need to complete a
PHA available on the WebMD Online coaching is called a Digital Health Assistant
website. (DHA) and needs to be set up by June 30th.
DHAs run for 28 days.
This is required
regardless of which Telephonic health coaching must be initiated
coaching option you by you by calling 1-866-513-2507. You will need
chose during open to complete your first call by June 30th.
enrollment. You have
until March 31st to complete.

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National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month  National Endometriosis Awareness
Month  National Kidney Month  National Nutrition Month  Save Your Vision

Month  National School Breakfast Week  National Diabetes Alert Day

National Autism Awareness Month  Oral Cancer Awareness Month  Every
Kid Healthy Week  National Public Health Week  National Alcohol Screening

Day  World Health Day  National Infertility Awareness Week  World
Immunization Week

Food Allergy Action Month  Healthy Vision Month  National Asthma and
Allergy Awareness Month  National Physical Fitness and Sports Month 
National Stroke Awareness Month  Hand Hygiene Day  National Women’s Health
Week  Heat Safety Awareness Day  National Senior Health & Fitness Day 

World No Tobacco Day

Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month  Men’s Health Month  National Safety
Month  National Cancer Survivors Day  World Sickle Cell Day

Cord Blood Awareness Month  Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month 
World Hepatitis Day

National Breastfeeding Month  National Immunization Awareness Month 
Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month  National Health Center Week

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through August

July 10 Sentara Medical Group - Glenrock
July 21 Optima Health Service Center (Clearfield)
August 7 Sentara Battlefield Corporate Center

through August
April Topic: Moving Towards Fitness
Presented By: Dani Hill, Health Education Coordinator, Health
and Preventive Services

June Topic: Surviving Cancer in Good Health
Presented By: Audrey Gregory, Genetics Counselor, Surgery
Specialists, Sentara Leigh Hospital

August Topic: Healthy Living with Diabetes
Presented By: Susan De Abate, RN, MSN/ED, CDE, Diabetes
Program, Patient Care Services
dates & times sent through email one month before presentation

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APRIL MARCH 3/6/2017 Sentara Heart Hospital 9:00am - 12:30pm Conference Room 2 through August
3/16/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm Conference Room 103
3/23/2017 Sentara Corporate 9:00am - 1:00pm Conjunction/Junction Conference Room
3/31/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm Big Idea Conference Room
4/3/2017 Sentara Independence 9:00am - 1:00pm Multipurpose Room
4/7/2017 8:30am - 12:30pm
4/18/2017 Battlefield Corporate Center 9:00am - 1:00pm Conference Room 2
4/19/2017 7:00am - 11:00am Private Dining Room
4/24/2017 Optima Health Virginia Beach 7:00am - 11:00am
4/25/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm HEC C
4/27/2017 Sentara Heart Hospital 9:00am - 1:00pm Virginia Beach Conference Room
5/1/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm
5/5/2017 Sentara Princess Anne Hospital 11:00am - 1:00pm Conference Room
5/9/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm Think Hard Conference Room
5/16/2017 Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital 7:00am - 11:00am
5/17/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm A Wing Conference Room
5/19/2017 Sentara Leigh Hospital 7:30am - 11:30am Multipurpose Room
5/23/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm
5/25/2017 Optima Health Customer Service - Clearfield 9:00am - 11:00am 1st Floor Conference Room B
5/25/2017 1:00pm - 3:00pm Private Dining Room
6/5/2017 Sentara Medical Group - Glenrock 8:00am - 1:00pm Classrooms C & D
6/7/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm Yorktown Room
6/8/2017 Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 9:00am - 1:00pm
6/12/2017 7:00am - 11:00am Virginia Beach Conference Room
6/14/2017 Optima Health Virginia Beach 10:00am - 1:00pm TBD
6/14/2017 7:30am - 11:30am TBD
MAY 6/21/2017 Sentara CarePlex Hospital 8:00am - 1:00pm
6/23/2017 7:00am - 11:00am A Wing Conference Room
6/27/2017 Sentara Princess Anne Hospital 9:00am - 1:00pm Conjunction/Junction Conference Room
6/30/2017 9:00am - 3:00pm
7/6/2017 Sentara Obici Hospital 9:00am - 1:00pm Education Conference Room 2
7/10/2017 8:00am - 1:00pm HEC C
7/11/2017 Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center 12:00pm - 5:00pm
7/18/2017 8:30am - 12:30pm Think Hard Conference Room
7/20/2017 Sentara Leigh Hospital 9:00am - 1:00pm Jamestown Room
7/20/2017 12:00pm - 3:30pm Classrooms C & D
7/21/2017 Lifecare Windermere 8:30am - 12:30pm
7/24/2017 8:00am - 2:00pm Large Conference Room
7/27/2017 Lifecare Virginia Beach 9:00am - 1:00pm Conference Room
7/31/2017 9:00am - 2:00pm
8/1/2017 Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 9:00am - 2:00pm Big Idea Conference Room
8/3/2017 9:00am - 2:00pm Conjunction/Junction Conference Room
8/8/2017 Sentara Independence 10:00am - 3:00pm
8/9/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm A Wing Conference Room
8/10/2017 Sentara Albemarle Medical Center 8:00am - 1:00pm Private Dining Room
8/15/2017 10:00am - 1:00pm HEC C
JUNE 8/15/2017 Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital 7:30am - 11:30am
8/16/2017 10:00am - 2:00pm Coastal/Admin Arrow Conference Rooms
8/18/2017 Sentara Medical Group - Glenrock 7:00am - 1:00pm Yorktown Room
8/21/2017 8:00am - 1:00pm
8/24/2017 Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center 9:00am - 2:00pm Virginia Beach Conference Room
8/25/2017 9:00am - 2:00pm 1st Floor Conference Room B
8/28/2017 Sentara Obici Hospital 9:00am - 3:00pm Demand Conference Room
8/29/2017 9:00am - 1:00pm Classrooms C & D
8/31/0217 Lifecare Norfolk 10:00am - 2:00pm Education Conference Room 2
Conference Room 103
Optima Health Customer Service - Clearfield A Wing Conference Room
Conference Room
Battlefield Corporate Center HEC C
Building II Conference Room
Sentara Independence Jamestown Room
Think Hard Conference Room
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital Private Dining Room
1st Floor Conference Room B
Sentara Princess Anne Hospital
Virginia Beach Conference Room
JULY Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital Big Idea Conference Room
Multipurpose Room
Landstown Commons TBD
Classrooms C & D
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

Sentara Leigh Hospital

Sentara CarePlex Hospital

Materials Management

Sentara Obici Hospital

Sentara Albemarle Medical Center

Sentara Corporate

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

Optima Health Customer Service - Clearfield

Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital

Sentara Port Warwick

AUGUST Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

Sentara Medical Group - Glenrock

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

Sentara CarePlex Hospital

Sentara Leigh Hospital

Battlefield Corporate Center

Optima Health Virginia Beach

Sentara College of Health Sciences

Sentara Obici Hospital 11

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The dangers of tobacco use are widely known and documented however; more data
comes out every year showing just how dangerous it can be. The side effects of exposure
to second hand smoke are also cause for alarm and many public health educators, and

clinicians are urging people to not only avoid smoking, but to avoid those who are
smoking around them. One of the most susceptible populations to smoke inhalation are

those with asthma. Tobacco smoke is a powerful asthma trigger because when a
person inhales tobacco smoke, irritating and inflaming substances
settle into the moist lining of the airway and this can cause an attack
in those with respiratory diseases like asthma. (CDC, 2016)
Tobacco smoke also is dangerous to asthmatics because it de-
stroys the tiny hair-like structures in the airways called cilia.
Normally, cilia sweep dust and mucus out of the airways, acting
like a filter system. Tobacco smoke damages cilia
so they are unable to work, which causes dust and
mucus to accumulate in the airways.

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This is also, why people who have recently quit smoking sometimes report coughing more.
The reason for the increase in coughing in recent quitters is because previously damaged

cilia begin noticing the large amount of unfiltered materials in the lungs and then the
body begins working to clear it out. While this type of coughing is a positive thing, if a for-

mer smoker does not know that, they may be tempted to pick smoking back up. Smoke
also causes the lungs to make more mucus than normal, and as a result, it can build up in
the airways, which can trigger an attack. Tobacco smoke is an irritant that can exacerbate
a variety of health conditions and so avoiding it as much as possible is the most healthful
option. The best thing you can do if you smoke is to quit, and the best thing that you can

do if you live with a smoker is to avoid being in the room or vicinity of them while they
smoke. Some other tips include not allowing smoking in your home or your car, not letting
anyone smoke around you or your child, and avoiding public places that permit smoking

in closed areas. Remember it is NEVER too late to quit!

Available resources for quitting:
www.optimahealth/quitsmoking

WebMD coaching
Over the counter medications or RX medications prescribed by your care provider
The Get Off Your Butt: Stay Smokeless for Life at home program accessed by calling 1-800-736-8272

Staff Development Educator, Optima Health, Health & Preventive Services

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