Well-Being

Explains what blood pressure is and why maintaining a healthy blood pressure is important to patients’ health. This resource provides ways to help manage blood pressure through nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, and stress release.

Explains the different types of cholesterol and how high cholesterol can impact patients’ health. This resource discusses lifestyle changes that patients can make to help manage cholesterol levels.

Helps patients learn how much sleep they need, what may be keeping them awake, how to get a good night’s sleep, and how to manage a sleep diary.

Provides support to caregivers around their own personal health. It provides a caregiver burnout assessment tool to complete and share with their healthcare provider. It also gives tips on how to lower stress and manage caregiver burnout.

Helps prepare patients in any type of healthcare setting when they are transitioning to their next level of care. This resource may be used with any healthcare provider before and during a patient’s stay to help them or their caregiver be prepared.

Helps patients manage or reduce stress by identifying the source and providing tips to help manage the stress. This resource encourages patients to manage stress by choosing healthy activities that suit their individual personality.

Provides nutrition facts on menu items offered by many of the most popular national fast food and casual dining chains. Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order, and guides to nutrition facts about each menu item are included.

Helps patients manage their own health care by organizing important personal information—allergies, chronic conditions, family history, hospital visits and surgeries, laboratory tests, screenings, vaccinations, and medications—in one single resource.

Highlights the importance and possible benefits of regular exercise. It provides tips and a step-by-step approach to incorporating exercise into a daily routine.

Identifies steps that can help patients take their medication correctly and safely. It provides tips for patients to consider at home, the doctor’s office, the pharmacy, or in a hospital or nursing home.