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Beebe's Wellness Center at Indian River High School Promotes Healthy Living

11/02/09

With a focus on healthy lifestyles, members of the Beebe Medical Center's Wellness Center at Indian River High School gave out free apples in the cafeteria recently. Students enjoyed 8 bushels of delicious Fuji apples grown locally at TS Smith and Sons apple orchard in Bridgeville.

We encourage students to think about eating fresh fruit when they are hungry instead of potato chips and other snacks, says registered dietician Alicia Bomhardt. Mrs. Bomhardt is a member of the Wellness Center team and works with students to find healthy ways to eat.

Eating a healthy diet just one part of our overall program to encourage students to follow a lifestyle that will help keep them healthy as they grow older, says Vanessa Adams, a family nurse practitioner and coordinator of the program.

The Wellness Center program at Indian River High School, in its 10 year, provides students with a means of obtaining health services that can be coordinated with the family physician. The center has several educational program(s) and counseling services. To receive the free services students must be members and parental approval is required. To day more than 92 percent of the students are members.

Caption: Here Center staff promotes healthy choices with the free apples. They are, left to right, Tricia White, licensed clinical social worker, Alicia Bomhardt, registered dietician, and Kathy Shock, Administrative assistant.


Beebe Medical Center is a not-for-profit community medical center with a charitable mission to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health with the people residing, working, or visiting in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit us online at www.beebemed.org