{"id":1979,"date":"2019-04-23T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/blog\/announcing-partnership-for-a-healthier-america\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:19:30","slug":"announcing-partnership-for-a-healthier-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/blog\/announcing-partnership-for-a-healthier-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Partnership for a Healthier America"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are proud to announce our three-year commitment to expand healthier options on campus through its collaboration with Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) – a leading organization working with the private sector to ensure that all children and young adults have the opportunity to live healthy, active lives.<\/p>\n

Marymount is one of more than 70 institutions of higher learning to implement PHA’s rigorous Healthier Campus Initiative (HCI) guidelines designed to create a culture shift towards greater health and wellness among its campus community of students, staff, and faculty. Cumulatively, HCI partners serve more than 1 million undergraduate students. Thirty-two percent of those students receive U.S. Federal Pell Grants, which are awarded to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need.<\/p>\n

“One of our first priorities as a new office was to create an environment at Marymount to support our community health and wellness needs. We are so excited to lead the efforts with the Healthier Campus Initiative and to watch our campus transform,” <\/em>said Karina Guzman, the Director of Wellness, Intervention, and Prevention.<\/p>\n

“We congratulate Marymount University’s commitment to supporting students and their wider campus community to develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime,”<\/em> said PHA President and CEO, Nancy E. Roman. “Their leadership is an important step forward towards realizing Partnership for a Healthier America’s goal that all young people grow up free from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other conditions associated with excess weight.”\u0094<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of the Healthier Campus Initiative commitment, we will work collaboratively with PHA to build upon existing campus wellness efforts to encourage and support greater physical activity and healthier eating habits. Every Healthier Campus Initiative partner commits to meeting 23 of 41 PHA guidelines within three years. Of the 23 commitment elements implemented at Marymount, a few include:<\/p>\n