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Questions? Call Tobacco Cessation Program
Support is available to you if you want to quit using tobacco products. WMHS Community Health and Wellness staff will help develop a personalized plan for quitting and provide the information and resources needed.
Time
Group classes are scheduled upon request.
Contact
Phone: 240-964-8420
Better Breathers Club
Western Maryland Health System Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs Better Breathers Club is a support group for individuals with chronic lung disease. Click here to learn more.
Time
Meets on the first Monday of every month at 5 p.m. (excludes holidays).
Contact
Stacey Blank
Phone: 240-964-1817
Email: sblank@wmhs.com
Living Well With Diabetes Program
Education is the key to being empowered to manage diabetes, avoid its complications, and achieve optimum health. Living Well with Diabetes is a one-day self-management training (DSMT) that covers the many aspects of diabetes self-management and glycemic control.
It’s an enjoyable day filled with practical information and tools to make managing diabetes easier. The team of Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE), registered dietitians, pharmacists, nurses, and a physical therapist provides support and expertise. A family member or support person is welcome to attend the program.
Contact
Phone: 240-964-8676
Center for Clinical Resources
Western Maryland Medical Arts Center
12502 Willowbrook Road, Suite 300
Cumberland, MD 21502
Phone: 240-964-8787
Change to Win Nutrition and Weight Loss Program
Twelve-week non-diet nutrition and weight loss classes that meet once weekly on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays.
Contact
Outpatient Community Dietitian
Phone: 240-964-8416
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Meet with a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) one-on-one to help meet your nutrition needs based on medical conditions and lifestyle.
Contact
Outpatient Community Dietitian
Phone: 240-964-8416
Diabetics, please call the Center for Clinical Resources
Phone: 240-964-8787
Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity
Intensive behavioral therapy sessions with a dietitian are available to assist you if you’re covered by Medicare and have a BMI greater than 30 to lose weight. The program is provided at WMHS Primary Care in the WMHS Medical Arts building and LaVale Plaza.
Contact
Outpatient Community Dietician
Phone: 240-964-8416
Food for Thought Book Club
Read books promoting healthy eating and discuss with others interested in improving their health.
Contact
Outpatient Community Dietician
Phone: 240-964-8416
Mental Health First Aid
Someone you know could be experiencing a mental illness or crisis. You can help them. You are more likely to encounter someone – friend, family member, coworker, neighbor, or member of the community – in an emotional or mental crisis than someone having a heart attack.
Mental Health First Aid teaches a 5-step action plan to offer initial help to individuals with the signs and symptoms of mental illness or in a crisis, and connect them with the appropriate professional, peer, social, or self-help care.
Anyone can take the 8-hour Mental Health First Aid course – first responders, students, teachers, leaders of faith communities, human resources professionals, and caring citizens.
Contact
Phone: 240-964-8418
Health and Wellness Coaching
A WMHS Health and Wellness Coach can help you move beyond your barriers to identify your unique needs and goals. Be realistic and yet, inspiring!
- What would your life look like at your ideal level of wellness?
- What do you value most in your life?
- What would you be doing more of?
- What would you be doing less of?
Areas Of Focus:
- Health & Wellbeing
- Personal Growth/Development
- Physical Activity
- Nutrition
- Tobacco Cessation
- Stress Management
Health and wellbeing coaching includes such topics as physical activity, nutrition, smoking cessation, stress management, and much, much more.
Sessions are free and range from 30 to 60 minutes. Coaching can be done in person or over the telephone.
Contact
WMHS Community Health & Wellness
Phone: 240-964-8424
Community Garden
Enjoy your very own garden space at no cost, to grow vegetables and fruits to keep for yourself or share with the community. Community Garden takes place at multiple locations. We provide individuals 5×10 feet garden plot, tools and water, natural, organic fertilizer, and the plants (or feel free to bring your own).
The Community Garden grand opening will be the Day of Caring, which takes place in the spring. Gardeners are encouraged to have fall vegetables from May to December (until the first frost).
Register a Spot
Phone: 240-964-9645
Email: garden@wmhs.com
Please include your name, number, mailing address and which location you prefer.
Partnerships
We proud to partner with local groups to provide the community with education and activities:
Healthy Parks, Healthy People (Rocky Gap)
Stepping On (Fall Prevention Program in partnership with YMCA and HRDC)
Stepping On is a proven program designed to build confidence and reduce falls for adults. Stepping On leaders coach you to recognize your risk of falling and help you build the balance, strength and practical skills you need to avoid falling. You learn in a fun, hands-on way, putting information to use from the very first session.
Stepping On workshops meet for two hours every week for seven weeks. Local experts, trained Stepping On leaders and other group members support and encourage you to find solutions to make your home safer and your body stronger. You’ll regain the confidence to stay active in your community to do the things you want to do.
Click here for Stepping On classes at the YMCA in Cumberland, MD.
Click here for Stepping On Classes at the South Cumberland Library in Cumberland, MD.
Bridges to Opportunity
Bridges to Opportunity is a community-wide initiative to build resources for you and the community. The initiative strives to help move individuals from poverty to self-sufficiency, reduce social costs related to crime, poor health, and welfare, strengthen educational attainment and job skills, enhance economic development, and revitalize neighborhoods.
Contact
To find out more about the complexity of poverty and how it affects us all, please call 240-964-8422.
Getting Ahead
Getting Ahead is a 20-week class, offered four times a year, that helps people living in instability learn how to build resources and skills to move them to stability. The class helps you address challenging situations such as employment, transportation, and childcare. In Getting Ahead, people share experiences and gain hope to create a new future story.
Contact & Register
Phone: 240-964-8417
Free Live Well Feel Well Class
A 2-hour session on chronic kidney disease with information provided by a registered dietitian, nurse and social worker. This can be helpful when making decisions about treatment options.
Contact
Phone: 240-964-8617
Free Heart Healthy Nutrition Classes
Nutrition class held monthly and taught by Joni Brode, RDN, LDN.
Contact & Register
Phone: 240-964-2303
Chair Yoga
It is a gentle slow paced yoga that is performed using the benefit of a chair to support the body throughout the poses. Beneficial if you have mobility issues. It helps maintain flexibility, your range of motion, spinal strength, mental awareness, calmness, digestion, and many other bodily functions.
Time
Chair Yoga is held every other month, free to the community at WMHS.
Contact & Register
Community Wellness
Phone: 240-964-8424
Email: jziemann@wmhs.com
Free Grocery Store Tours
Led by registered dietitians, these tours take you through local stores (Aldi in Cumberland, Walmart in LaVale, Martin’s in LaVale, and Weis in Cresaptown) to help learn how to read food labels and make healthy choices.
Contact & Register
WMHS Food and Nutrition Department
Phone: 240-964-2303
Farmer’s Market
Good health begins with farm fresh produce, so we encourage everyone to take advantage of the weekly farmer’s market. Local farmers will set up their produce, homemade jams, baked goods, and more.
Time
Every Wednesday from June through October, WMHS hosts a farmer’s market from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location
Parking garage across from the Medical Arts Center entrance
Contact
Phone: 240-964-8424
Screenings
Preventive screenings are recognized as a cost-effective way to identify and treat potential health problems before they develop or worsen. Individuals may be eligible for screening at little cost or through insurance.
Recommendations may vary from organization to organization and frequently change as new information becomes available. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force conducts scientific reviews of preventive health care services and develops recommendations for primary care providers and health systems.
Resources
View the full list of the currently covered services
Visit the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for a list of recommended preventive services