network of care, the Health Coach and Patient Navigator will work with patients one-on-one to make behavioral and lifestyle changes that will ensure greater emotional, spiritual, psychological, and phys- ical health. Here is a model where educating the patient becomes as important as treating the patient. Businesses as well as healthcare organizations will make a good investment by hiring health coaches/ patient navigators who can work at the front end of keeping people healthy and insurance premiums low. For those of us who have long been promoting the benefits of a more systemic and holistic approach to patient care, none of this should come as a surprise. However, rather than approaching inte- grative healthcare as supplemental to traditional healthcare, the ACA is finally demanding that hospitals and physicians be rewarded for making behavior, lifestyle, and wellness a core part of their approach to effective treatment. There is already evidence that the rise of this profession will contribute to decreased healthcare spending in 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One thing is clear: when the dust settles in the aftermath of these huge structural changes, there is going to be a real need for certified health coaches and patient navigators.
Christi Holmes is a Connecticut Health Foundation Health Leader- ship Senior Fellow. Christi has worked with The Graduate Institute of Bethany, CT to develop the state’s first Health Coaching and Patient Navigation Certificate program. Enrollment is now open for the first session, which begins October 2013. For more information call (203) 874-4252 or visit
www.learn.edu. Email Christi at The Graduate Insti- tute at
Holmes@learn.edu. See ad this page.
CERTIFICATE IN
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COACHING & PATIENT NAVIGATION
The Graduate Institute (TGI) has created an Integrative
Health Coaching and Patient Navigator Certificate program - the first in the state. The program blends the art of health
coaching with the science of patient navigation, connecting strategies for wellness, healthy living, and preventative care with the daily functions of navigating a changing healthcare system. Participants who complete the 12-credit program will be well-poised to enter this emerging profession and
will also be eligible to apply for their professional coaching credential with the International Coach Federation (ICF).
To learn more, please call Mia Hawlk,
Director of Admissions & Outreach, at 203-874-4252 or email Mia at
hawlk@learn.edu.
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