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Cayuga Center for Healthy Living

 

If you are looking for help in making medically necessary lifestyle changes, talk to your doctor about the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living.  The Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, under the direction of Geoffrey E. Moore, MD, FACSM, is located on the 5th floor of the Island Health Center.

 

The Center’s Healthy Lifestyle Program helps people improve their health by improving four risk factors: stress, diet, exercise, and smoking. These are key factors in the development of many serious health problems and account for 75 percent of all health care costs. With these costs skyrocketing, many Americans are turning to disease prevention and health promotion as the best investment in their health.

 

The Healthy Lifestyle Program provides guidance to help you make difficult changes. We offer individual and group counseling sessions with a medical team led by our director, Dr. Geoffrey Moore, to help you improve your lifestyle. Our team includes lifestyle-counselor nurses, dieticians, and physical therapists, and works closely with the Transition Program offered through Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine and Island Health and Fitness. This strategy helps you successfully maintain the lifestyle changes you've adopted.

 

Who is the program right for?

 

We particularly can help people with chronic health problems that are related to lifestyle risk factors. These include individuals with the following:

 

·   Heart disease

·   Most other cardiovascular diseases

·   High blood pressure

·   High cholesterol

·   Diabetes

·   Weight-related health problems

·   Arthritis

·   Back pain

 

What are the benefits?

 

The Healthy Lifestyle Program provides education, guidance, and support in helping you make the changes you need to make for yourself. Many programs are focused on one aspect of lifestyle, but we recognize that everyone has their own unique life and individual combination of inter-related risk factors. We help you understand how these risk factors affect your health, and work with you to improve your lifestyle risk factors.

 

Does insurance cover this?

 

Most health insurance does cover this service, as long as you have a chronic health problem that is related to one or more of the lifestyle risk factors. You may need a referral from your physician. People for whom this may not be covered are young, healthy individuals who have one or more of the risk factors, but otherwise don't have a chronic disease, i.e. a young but healthy person who is overweight.

 

For more information, or to see if the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living is right for you, please call (607) 252-3590