Lifestyle medicine is coming to St. John's Medical Center
New program will ‘be umbrella for what we already have,’ CEO Dr. Paul Beaupre said. A staggering number of health problems are in some way tied to poor lifestyle choices, and a new program at St. John’s Medical Center hopes to combat them while lowering the amount of medicine patients take and procedures they undergo. Wellness Program Director Julia Heemstra briefed the hospital’s board of trustees Thursday on a lifestyle medicine program being developed in her department. “W