Health and Wellness
September 18, 2023
Heart Knowledge: High Blood Pressure and You
Zoom
One-to-One Health’s hypertension program is a 6-week lifestyle education program where participants for one hour each week to learn how to reduce health risks associated with high blood pressure. Participants will also track daily blood pressures with a provided blood pressure monitor. Visit the Healthy Boiler Employee Well-being website to view timeline of program.
Benefits-eligible employees and their covered spouses on the Purdue medical plan from our campus, Purdue West Lafayette, and Purdue Northwest. Register early as class size is limited. Register by September 5.
Lifestyle Education Workshops
Your Heart and High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) significantly increases your risk for serious health conditions including heart attacks and strokes. That's why it is important to know what your blood pressure is, and make healthy lifestyle changes now, whether you have high blood pressure or you are trying to prevent it.
Heart Knowledge is a lifestyle education program that is designed to help faculty and staff with high blood pressure, those with a history of high blood pressure in their family, and those who want to prevent high blood pressure.
Lifestyle Education programs focus on creating lifelong habits to improve and maintain your health and well-being. Learn more about our lifestyle education workshops.
- Participants will meet in group ZOOM sessions and schedule three individual health coaching sessions.
- Classes meet for about one hour on Mondays for six weeks from September 18 through October 23.
- You may view weekly timeline of the program.
- Please register early as program is open to all three Purdue campuses and usually fills up fast.
- Benefits-eligible employees and covered spouses on the Purdue medical plan may log in to the Healthy Boiler portal, then scroll to Healthy Boiler Workshops. Hover over the workshop's square and click the "Submit" to register. Registration deadline to register on the portal is September 5.
If you have not joined the Healthy Boiler Program and you are a benefits-eligible employee, you may email Bloom at [email protected] to register for this workshop or check if there are any spots available after the September 5 deadline..
Learn more about the benefits you receive when you join the Healthy Boiler Program and sign up at the Healthy Boiler portal to become a member.
Lindsay Bloom, employee health coach at Purdue Fort Wayne, and Megan Shidler, registered dietitian at the Purdue West Lafayette's Center for Healthy Living will present the program.