After more than four years of study, planning, development, and implementation, the Coalition for Better Health and its Preventive Health Network now have research that demonstrate there is a measurable, sustainable, scalable, and evidence-based way to change health-related behavior that can help prevent chronic disease and improve health outcomes across Tennessee and beyond.

The Coalition, with the support of dozens of private and public interests across the state, created a training and certification program designed to empower healthcare professionals with the communication tools needed to drive behavior change. The approach went upstream to the source of behavior change: personal motivation. Thirty health professionals were trained as part of four different cohorts, including candidates from Cherokee Health Systems, Ballad Health, Methodist LeBonheur, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and One-One Health. Click the button below to learn about how this approach improved patient activation and employee satisfaction.