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WATERVILLE – HealthReach Community Health Centers has been recogized by 5210 Let’s Go!, is a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program, as health providers of distinction.
The program promotes improved nutrition and increased physical activity. It helps to create healthier communities, reaching children and their families wherever they live, learn, work, and play.
HealthReach Community Health Centers has partnered with Let’s Go! since 2013. This past year, HealthReach practices engaged children and families with the 5210 message (five servings of fruits and vegetables, two hours or less of recreational screen time, one hour or more of physical activity, and 0 sugary drinks).
The health centers tackled these issues through posters and brochures in the waiting and exam rooms and using Healthy Habits Questionnaires and Body Mass Index measurements at well child checkups. Through these efforts, HealthReach providers have continued the conversations with patients about healthy weight, increased physical activity throughout each season, and overall wellness.
The 10 HealthReach centers that achieved Let’s Go! Site of Distinction status in 2018 for prioritizing obesity prevention and continuing to embrace the 5210 Let’s Go! message in conjunction with area schools, hospitals, day care centers, and other organizations were: Belgrade Regional Health Center, Bethel Family Health Center, Bingham Area Health Center, Lovejoy Health Center in Albion, Madison Area Health Center, Rangeley Family Medicine, Richmond Area Health Center, Sheepscott Valley Health Center in Coopers Mills, Strong Area Health Center and Western Maine Family Health in Livermore Falls.
