Educational Classes at Paducah

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♪ - [Bonnie Schrock]

Every day we have patients coming in that have severe cardiovascular disease and they're just learning about it for the very first time when they come into the cath lab. And so, our goal through Project Fit is to prevent that from happening in the first place.

- [Adam Ford]

My dad and I were real close and, in 2009, I get a bad phone call from my mom saying that he was going to have quadruple bypass surgery in two hours. So instead of going to North Carolina, we went to Baptist. And it was a successful surgery.

- We know that if you're going to change a community, you start with changing a person who has an impact on their family, who has an impact on their circle. So if we can reach kids and they're talking to their parents and grandparents about things like not smoking, reducing fat in their diet, and physical activity, those are the three things that if we all do those things, we'll improve our health status and lifestyle tremendously. Project Fit is an overall health education curriculum that includes outdoor fitness equipment, indoor fitness equipment, and education. Curriculum for the teachers to use.

- [Jeffery Sturm]

Project Fit, not only does it teach exercise and physical fitness, but it's also teaching the kids about safety, goal setting, cooperation, teamwork, communication. There's so many things that Project Fit teaches. And they're able to get out there and teach their parents and teach their grandparents on upper body strength, on lower body strength, on abdominal strength. They're able to show their parents what that looks like.

- [Canon Ford]

There's a Gold, Silver, Bronze, and then the highest one's Kong. And I try to get Kong every time.

- Athletics isn't everything, but exercise, your health, is. And so, it makes me feel great that he's gaining knowledge on how to set goals, in general, for life. I think I can speak on behalf of most families in Paducah, Baptist Health brings comfort.

- We've been blessed here in Reidland Intermediate through the grant of Baptist Health to have the Project Fit curriculum and the Project Fit, you know, fitness equipment. So, the biggest thing that we can say, from us here at Reidland Intermediate is "Thank you."

- You're not only working, you're having fun while doing it. And you get excited. And you want to do more.

- We want to be a good neighbor. Baptist wants to demonstrate that it has an investment in this community not just now but in the future. I think when you see a child make real change in his or her life, and they begin to have that ripple effect on their parents, and their grandparents, and their aunts and uncles, and other people in their family, that's a win. ♪ [music]

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