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Health Resources, Benefits & Discounts at Dartmouth

Health Coaching

Even Olympic athletes benefit from coaching! Whatever your health goals, a Health Coach can give you tips on how to set a goal, help you work towards meeting your goal, cheer you on, and measure your progress. Whether you are training for a triathalon, trying to lower your blood pressure, searching for the best form of exercise for your body and personality, trying to lose weight, or simply trying to live a healthy lifestyle, the Health Coaches can help. 

Work with a Health Coach to set your own health and wellness goals.

Wellness Workshops

Throughout 2014, workshops will be offered in three-part series around specific themes.  Come to all three for a more in-depth understanding or choose only those that best suit your needs and goals. Workshops are available to benefits eligible employees and their adult family members. 

Other Benefits & Discounts for Employees

Work/Life Programs

• After Hours (social, recreational, and cultural activities)
• Faculty / Employee Assistance Program
• Child Care Center
• Working Mom's Group
• HopStop Family Series
• Mindfulness Practice Group
• Tucker Foundation
  • Rollins Chapel
  • Meditation Room

Health and Recreation

• Wellness Benefit ($200 for Cigna members)
• Alumni Gym and Zimmerman Fitness Center memberships
• FLIP (Fitness & Lifestyle Improvment Program offers health and fitness classes)
• Shower Pass Program 
• DPerks (discounts for health-related facilities, services and merchandise)
• Dartmouth Skiway
• Hanover Country Club
• Boss Tennis Center
• Dick's House Pharmacy (fills prescriptions)
• Weight Watchers at Work (scroll down to bottom of page)
• Dartmouth Cross Country Ski Center
• Dartmouth Organic Farm
• Dartmouth Outing Club
• Cabin rentals
• Equipment rentals
• Ropes Course
• Climbing Gym
• Morton Farm
• Ledyard Canoe Club

 Campus Convenience

• Lactation Rooms
• Bike Racks
• Showers
• Hydration Stations

Other Benefits

• Free tobacco cessation products
• Adoption reimbursement benefit ($5000)
• Infertility treatment reimbursement benefit ($5000)
• Paid parental leave

 

Assess Your Health

Spending 15- 20 minutes completing the online Health Assessment is a quick and easy way to determine the current state of your overall health, and to figure out what steps you need to take now to maintain or improve your health in the future. After all, when you're healthy, you have the strength and confidence to be your true self!

 

Dartmouth Health Connect

Dartmouth Health Connect is a primary care practice. Dartmouth College has engaged with Iora Health to provide its employees with an option for coordinated, personalized care through a dedicated care team. All Dartmouth Health Connect services are a benefit provided to eligible employees and offered at no additional employee cost.  If you are interested in learning more about Dartmouth Health Connect and their current capacity for new patients, click here or simply call 603.738.1164.

 

Geisel School of Medicine Public Lecture Series

 

Learn from the experts! Geisel's lectures feature professionals, researchers, innovators, and scholars sharing their knowledge to the Dartmouth community in a free lecture series. Find out about the latest findings and inventions in health-related fields. Check the schedule at the Geisel School website.

 

 

Listen and Learn with DHMC Health Podcasts

From folk medicine therapies that work to pioneering research, from national health trends to surprising new discoveries, you can find out more by listening to interviews with Dartmouth-Hitchcock's clinicians at your convenience. Click here to listen!
Healthy body weight depends on an approach that combines working with the mind, the body, and the spirit. For help in helping yourself, check the resources below.

Weight Management: Inviting the Healthy You to Emerge

Check out all the health self-assessment tools in the left navigation bar to get started!

Weight Watchers at Work:

• Get support, encouragement, and practical tools from Dartmouth's own Weight Watchers at Work group. Join the on-going group whenever you are ready. It typically meets in Haldeman 031 every Tuesday from noon until 1 pm. Call or email Lauren Clark at 6-0109 or Annette Rine (603) 653-0726 to learn more and to confirm meeting location.

CBT for Weight Loss Group:

• Group therapy for weight loss will teach you how to apply the proven benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to your diet and weight loss efforts by training you to think differently, improve your eating behavior, and to keep weight off permanently! Very affordable and very effective, these small groups are offered at Hanover Psychiatry, through the Psychiatry department of the Geisel School of Medicine. Learn to choose wisely, eat consciously, think differently, act rationally, and manage your weight for the long-term. Call 603-277-9110.

Find External Support:

• Like the Weight Watchers program but can't do the Dartmouth meetings? Check Weight Watchers online for more information. Community meetings and online "meetings" are also available.
• Follow the effective 12-Step Approach in recovering from food addiction. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous offers self-help and support from the biochemical disease of food obsession.
• "Eat Smart. Get Out. Be Active." That's the three-fold strategy of UV Heal! Find out more about the Upper Valley Healthy Eating Active Living Partnership.
• Tracking your calorie intake and your activity level can DOUBLE weight loss. Just keeping a food diary, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research, can increase your success by 100%. For accurate, reliable information about calories, fat, and other dietary elements, check one of the following sites.

 External Web Resources:

	Trustworthy numbers—not guess-timates—from the data collected by the United States Department of Agriculture available from Choose my Plate.
	Inspiration, true stories, practical suggestions from a caring community can be found at the Sparkpeople website.
	App Afficiandos can access help with the MyFitnessPal Itunes App
	WebMD tracks your calorie and nutrition intake to help you plan your personalized success story.
	The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has set the standard for healthy eating for all kinds of diets. Whether you are looking for more information about a diet prescribed for a health condition, a DVD, a CD-ROM, or a Registered Dietitian to help you set and achieve objectives, the academy can help!
	Calculate your Body Mass Index

External Resources:

• Experts at the Mayo Clinic provide current medical information and news on a variety of health topics.
• Check out Cigna Health and Wellness articles and tools to help you lead a healthier life.
• The award-winning Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center educates you about diseases, conditions, treatments and prevention.