Vail Health Launches Healthspan Program, Designed to Maximize Longevity and Quality of Life

This week, Vail Health is launching its new Healthspan program, which focuses on a natural, science-based approach to improving quality of life and promoting longevity for all ages. This program reflects Vail Health’s commitment to holistic healthcare and aims to enhance health by preventing chronic diseases before they develop.

“Healthspan, at its core, is a lifestyle intervention program,” said Josiah Middaugh, the Healthspan program director. The program “really focuses on pulling those big levers of exercise and nutrition to prevent chronic diseases and to make the quality of everyone’s life better,” he said.

The program assigns every participant a dedicated team of four experts: a wellness coach, a functional medicine clinician, a coach, and a nutritionist. This team then creates a personalized health and fitness plan tailored to each participant’s goals and fitness test results. They schedule workouts, plan nutrition, and review medications.

Will Cook, the President and CEO of Vail Health, became Healthspan’s very first participant, and he shares his firsthand experience with the program.  “You always feel like you’ve got somebody there, not monitoring from a perspective of ‘I got you,’ but monitoring from a perspective of ‘Do you feel like it’s helping you?’” Cook said. “That, for me, has been something different than I’ve ever had.” At the end of the six months, Will signed up for another cycle, stating, “I feel better, I sleep better, I look better, and I want to keep it going.”

The program is continuing to conduct research as it goes to determine how upstream health interventions might save lives (and dollars) in the long run, as well as to see how consistent a participant needs to be with their designed program to see success.

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