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Monthly Update | November 2009 |
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This month's featured photo is of team members from CRI and Urban Health Plan as they cut the ribbon to open The Urban Health Plan, Inc. Health & Wellness Center, in Partnership with Canyon Ranch Institute - El Centro de Salud y Bienestar, en Cooperación con Canyon Ranch Institute. Pictured left to right: UHP President and CEO Paloma Izquierdo-Hernandez, M.P.H.; CRI President Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS (with scissors); UHP Founder Richard Izquierdo, M.D.;
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Dear Friend of Canyon Ranch Institute,
I hope that your fall is as exciting as ours has been so far! It's been a season of "firsts" for Canyon Ranch Institute. In partnership with Urban Health Plan, we celebrated the opening of our brand-new Health & Wellness Center at Urban Health Plan. The center will be used by Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program participants as a place to exercise, meditate, relax, and participate in wellness classes and activities.
In addition, thanks to the kind support of people like you and an amazing group of participants who came to Canyon Ranch to learn about cancer prevention and survivorship, the first-ever CRI LIVESTRONG Week was an astounding success. You can see a slide show and learn more about the festivities by clicking here. We are thrilled to continue advancing cancer prevention and survivorship with our partner the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
We also hosted our first-ever CRI Community Health and Wellness Workshop. Promotoras, adult literacy educators, and health educators involved in our partnership with the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health attended lectures and experiential sessions focused on health literacy, exercise physiology, nutrition, and behavioral health.
On behalf of all of us at Canyon Ranch Institute, thank you for your continuing support. If you would like to learn more about us or how you can become involved, please visit www.canyonranchinstitute.org or contact me.
In Good Health,
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The CRI Life Enhancement Program
is based on
principles from the Canyon Ranch Life Enhancement Program, which was founded in what year?
a) 1988
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CRI and Urban Health Plan Open New Health & Wellness Center in the South Bronx
South Bronx, NY
CRI and partner organization Urban Health Plan (UHP) celebrated the opening of a new health and  wellness center at UHP, a network of federally qualified community health centers based in the South Bronx and Queens. The Urban Health Plan, Inc. Health & Wellness Center, in Partnership with Canyon Ranch Institute - El Centro de Salud y Bienestar, en Cooperación con Canyon Ranch Institute - is "home base" for the Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program at Urban Health Plan (CRI LEP at UHP). All CRI LEP at UHP program participants will be able to access the center, which includes state-of-the-art exercise equipment and space for meditation, relaxation, and yoga. This health literacy program has been shown to positively impact participants' health and well-being and is based on the best practices of Canyon Ranch. Read More
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CRI and Partner the Lance Armstrong Foundation Co-host First-Ever CRI LIVESTRONG Week
Tucson, AZ
CRI and the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) joined with Canyon Ranch in Tucson to present the first-ever CRI LIVESTRONG Week October 4-10, 2009. As part of the week, CRI and LAF selected 12 CRI LIVESTRONG Fellows who participated in the week without charge. Some CRI LIVE STRONG Fellows were cancer survivors and others were focused on cancer prevention. Coming from six states, the Fellows ranged in age from 25 to 80 years young and provided detailed feedback about their experiences to help CRI, LAF, and Canyon Ranch better understand the potential for offering future programs that present cancer prevention and survivorship in the context of optimal health and wellness.
CRI LIVE STRONG Week ended successfully with the first-ever CRI LIVESTRONG Day Celebration and fundraiser. All proceeds from the event were equally shared by CRI and LAF, both of which are non-profit organizations that are making a positive difference in the lives of millions of people. Read More
Photo information: These twelve unique individuals were the recipients of the CRI LIVESTRONG Week Fellowship. Click Here to read their stories and to view a slide show of highlights from the week.
In the News:
CRI President Dr. Richard Carmona and Partnerships and Policies Director Christine Sardo Discuss CRI LIVESTRONG Week
KVOA News 4 - October 4, 2009 Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, president of CRI, and Christine L. Sardo, M.P.H., R.D., CRI partnerships and policies director, were interviewed about CRI's partnership with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, its focus on cancer prevention and survivorship, and highlights from the CRI LIVE STRONG Week activities at Canyon Ranch. Read More |
CRI Hosts Community Health and Wellness Workshop to Support Community-Based Health Education Project
Promotoras, adult literacy educators, and health educators
 During the workshop, Canyon Ranch and CRI professionals with backgrounds in exercise physiology, nutrition, health literacy, and behavioral health provided lectures and led experiential sessions. All information was presented in a format that could be adapted to a community setting. The workshop participants all reported feeling rested, rejuvenated, and ready to incorporate some of the tangible information they had learned about health and wellness into the community-service work they do every day. Read More |
Doctors Join Fight Against Obesity
USA Today - October 7, 2009
Over 72 million adults in the U.S. are obese, which greatly increases the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, several types of cancer, and other diseases. Many physicians find it difficult and uncomfortable to speak to their overweight patients about how to lose weight. To alleviate this problem, CRI partner organization the STOP Obesity Alliance has developed recommendations for physicians on how to guide and treat obese patients. Read More
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White House Pushes Support for Health Care Reform
ABC News - October 10, 2009
Separate statements from the four most recent U.S. Surgeons General and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska were issued from the White House urging political leaders from both sides of the aisle to work together to reform the U.S. health care system. Read More
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CRI Receives Bronx Spirit Award from Urban Health Plan
South Bronx, NY
Photo information: CRI President Dr. Richard Carmona speaks emotionally of his childhood physician and mentor, Dr. Richard Izquierdo, founder of UHP, on the day CRI received the Bronx Spirit Award. |
CRI President Dr. Richard Carmona and CRI Executive Director Jennifer Cabe Deliver Medical Grand Rounds at the Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ
Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, president of CRI, and Jennifer Cabe, M.A., executive director of CRI, delivered Medical Grand Rounds at the start of the Mayo Clinic Arizona's conference "Genomics in Everyday Medical Practice." Dr. Carmona and Jennifer spoke about health literacy and focused on the "U.S. Surgeon General's Family Health History Initiative," a national health literacy program that they helped to develop and launch through the Office of the Surgeon General and the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Read More |
Carmona: Disease Prevention Shortchanged
Arizona Daily Star - October 3, 2009
In this article, CRI President Dr. Richard H. Carmona states that up to 50 percent of cancers are preventable. He adds that you can reduce the risk of getting cancer by exercising, reducing the amount of fatty and processed foods eaten, limiting alcohol consumption, and not smoking. Read More | |
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About Canyon Ranch Institute
Canyon Ranch Institute (CRI) is a non-profit organization that catalyzes the possibility of optimal health for all people by translating the best practices of Canyon Ranch and our partners to help educate, inspire, and empower every person to prevent disease and embrace a life of wellness. Canyon Ranch Institute and our partners believe in the power and possibility of a healthy world. More information about CRI is available at www.canyonranchinstitute.org. | |
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