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By Shira Pollard
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU

Children’s Hospital Foundation’s annual ball raised more than $246,000 to help fund Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU’s (CHoR) new Healthy Lifestyles Center.  

At CHoR’s new Healthy Lifestyles Center, a team of dietitians, exercise specialists, psychologists, pediatric medical and surgical specialists and nurses provide comprehensive lifestyle management care for the treatment and prevention of obesity and weight-related medical conditions. Through specially designed multidisciplinary programs and services, team members work closely with children/adolescents and their families to promote healthy weight-management, eating, exercise and lifestyle habits with a focus on lifelong change.

The Healthy Lifestyles Center is housed in a 4,000-square-foot space adjacent to CHoR’s Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. It has a gym, exercise testing facilities, consultation rooms and research space. The establishment of this unique facility – the first of its kind in Central Virginia – reflects CHoR’s commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles and to expanding multidisciplinary clinical research endeavors to combat the problem of childhood obesity.

WHAT:     Check presentation and tour

WHEN:     January 30, 2013
                10 a.m.

WHERE:   Healthy Lifestyles Center
                 2303 N. Parham Road, Suite 1, Henrico, VA 23229
               
WHO:      Children’s Hospital Foundation Junior Board
                Healthy Lifestyles Center physicians and staff