Building and Standardizing the Approach to Lifestyle Medicine in a Large Integrated Health System

Session: Building and Standardizing the Approach to Lifestyle Medicine in a Large Integrated Health System

Presenter: Kara Tibbe, MBA, NBC-HWC

Session Description: 

Lifestyle medicine is a specialty medicine that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat, manage, and reverse chronic conditions. The Lifestyle Medicine Practice at Corewell Health was the first of its kind to open in the country, and standardization with structure, documentation, and infrastructure was imperative for success of the practice. 

In this session we will discuss what lifestyle medicine is and the aspects of health and lifestyle that are addressed in the program, as well as the tactics used to build out the operations of this specialty practice.

Bio: 

Kara Tibbe, MBA, NBC-HWC manages the Lifestyle Medicine Specialty Practice and Health Coaching team at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Kara has helped to develop, standardize, and implement all programs and pathways within the Lifestyle Medicine department, working closely with internal team members but also other key System leaders to integrate Lifestyle Medicine into specialty and primary care practices within Corewell Health. Kara is passionate about the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine and lives out the purpose and mission of Lifestyle principles with her family every single day.