Health and Wellness
A collection of health/wellness activities (events, organizations and activities)
The following are events that have to do with building out a healthy community.
Please also visit Beam Project Trackers for these two major health-related initiatives:
(1) DMC EDA's America City for Health vision can be found per this Community Beam LINK.
(2) Olmsted County Public Health: Community Health Assessment and Improvement
(3) Beam pilot of a Community Health Dashboard
| Start Date | Title | Description | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2025 08:00 PM | 2025 Community of Wellness: Symposium & Gala | Topics include: Transformational Healing with Sound; Living Well, Thinking Well: How Lifestyle Medicine Can Preserve Your Cognitive Health; The Power of Sunlight to Improve Health and Well-being; Move to Thrive: How Exercise Transforms Metabolic Health and Overall Wellness; Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) for Type II Diabetes Reversal and Longevity; Epiphanies From Losing Nearly 300 Pounds | ('Education', 'health', 'community health') |
| Mar 13, 2025 11:00 AM | 1Q 2025 County Health Assessment and Planning Partnership (HAPP) | CHAP Quality Improvement (QI) Project | ('CHNA', 'Health') |
| Mar 01, 2025 11:30 AM | Common Cause: Community Townhall | Directly ask your state legislators what they're doing to improve you everyday life! | ('diversity', 'housing', 'governance', 'Culture', 'health', 'key', 'civic engagement') |
| Feb 10, 2025 01:00 PM | Advancing Health Equity | Empowering Immigrant and Refugee Communities | ('health', 'diversity', 'key') |
| Jan 21, 2025 06:00 PM | OMC Regional Foundation: What Makes Healthcare Work Worth It – Or Not? | Learning objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: • articulate and prioritize their reasons for the work they do • assess the ethical risks and rewards of healthcare work • apply identified values and ethics to interactions with patients and colleagues. | ('health', 'community engagement') |
| Dec 12, 2024 07:30 AM | 4Q 2024 December Health HAPP Meeting | Topics include: Prenatal Co-Design Project; Sarah Stevens and Sadie Swenson, OCPHS Julie Ruzek, Cradle 2 Career CHAP Process: Looking ahead to 2025 Derrick Fritz, CHAP Coordinator Efforts Being Done to Address Community Health Priorities All Core Agency Updates CHAP Core Group Community Announcements and Sharing All | ('CHNA', 'community', 'Health/Wellness', 'Health', 'public sector work product', 'key', 'health work product') |
| Oct 26, 2024 01:00 PM | The Table Cookout by Zumbro Valley Medical Society (ZVMS) | Food, Community, & Conversation | ('food', 'health', 'civic engagement') |
| Sep 23, 2024 04:30 PM | CMRC September 2024 Meeting Place Holder (Canceled) | Potential Topics: CMRC Updates; Age Friendly Olmsted County; Rochester Vision 2050; Co-design | ('CHNA', 'community', 'Health/Wellness', 'Health', 'public sector work product', 'health work product', 'CMRC') |
| Sep 12, 2024 07:30 AM | 3Q 2024 September Health HAPP Meeting | CHAP Value Discussion: What value does the CHAP process bring to you/your organization? CHIP Collective Impact Discussion: How are we addressing the top health issues in Olmsted County? | ('CHNA', 'community', 'Health/Wellness', 'Health', 'public sector work product', 'key', 'health work product') |
| Sep 03, 2024 09:00 AM | ISAIAH: Voter Engagement Training | ISAIAH invites members and leaders of community organizations to a training that will empower and challenge you to do this in the community you serve. | ('Health/Wellness', 'community engagement', 'community health') |
| Aug 03, 2024 10:00 AM | RPS Community Ed 50th Anniversary Community Celebration | A team of dedicated staff have been working for months to plan our 50th Anniversary Community Celebration on Saturday, August 3, 10 AM to 2 PM, at Cascade Lake Park (see attached map). We'll have a wealth of activities for participants, including musical, dance, and our own Poetry Out Loud performers, arts and crafts for kids, cultural artifacts and henna, outdoor games, story time, face painting, and lots of Community Education information. | ('food', 'Culture', 'health') |
| Jul 22, 2024 10:00 AM | Rochester Clinic: Cognitive Health | Please join Dr. Dawn Jacobson, MD certified in Bredesen Protocol for Alzheimer's cognitive health. Also, a simple cooking demo will showcase a healthy recipe for the brain. | ('community health', 'community') |
| Jul 20, 2024 12:00 PM | Vegan Grill Out (#2 July) | Join us at Kutzky Park (right next to the tennis courts) for a laid-back grill out, but all plant-based! Food will be provided, but feel free to bring your own dish and/or drink. We'll have Vegetable Kababs, Veggie Burgers, meat-alternative burgers, "hot dogs," fruit, and water! | ('food', 'health') |
| Jun 29, 2024 01:00 PM | Zumbro Valley Medical Society Eye Care Clinic | Free eye exams, free optical care, free glasses | ('America City for Health',) |
| Jun 13, 2024 01:00 PM | 2Q 2024 June Health HAPP Meeting | Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity (M.O.V.E.) Update, LGBTQIA+ Co-Design Work Discussion, 2024 CHAP Satisfaction Survey, Community Announcements and Sharing | ('CHNA', 'community', 'Health/Wellness', 'Health', 'public sector work product', 'key', 'health work product') |
| May 19, 2024 05:30 PM | Join the Mayor | Join us for a fun, family-friendly day to learn more about the importance of exercise for our physical and mental health. There will be community booths/displays and kid's games. | ('Health/Wellness',) |
| May 18, 2024 11:00 AM | Sabbath and Health | Lifestyle medicine presentation in Spanish to Hispanic audience | ('interfaith', 'community health', 'health') |
| May 16, 2024 05:30 PM | Walk With a Doc with Chuck Carroll and health talk | Hosted by Rochester Clinic, Lotus Health Foundation and 125 Live | ('Health/Wellness',) |
| May 16, 2024 08:15 AM | Lotus Health Foundation hosts 6th annual “Community of Wellness” event, Lifestyle Medicine, Path to Health & Happiness. | Embark on a journey towards health and happiness. | ('community health', 'education') |
| May 15, 2024 07:00 PM | Co-Design Facilitator Spring 2024 Cohort Graduation | Join the Rochester Co-Design Community to celebrate our third Facilitator Cohort Graduation! The graduates each completed 25 hours of training over 4 months, learning skills to support successful and meaningful co-design projects. This celebration will provide an opportunity to connect, network, and recruit our next co-design facilitator cohort. Cake and beverages will be provided. We hope that you can make it. Registration is encouraged but not required. | ('co-design', 'Civic Equity', 'Health/Wellness', 'governance') |
