West Kendall Baptist Hospital was named one of nine winners in the GE HealthyCities Leadership Academy Open Innovation Challenge. This winning project aims to enhance the role of the Healthy Hub, a free, one-stop screening and referral-to-care kiosk.
The Healthy Hub project is a collaboration between West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Healthy West Kendall and LifeWallet, a corporate partner. The Hub uses the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 assessment to generate a health score using biometric information gathered by a nurse. Currently, many of the Hub visitors are at risk for diabetes. This project intervenes with those pre-diabetic patients to improve both their clinical and personal health outcomes.