Spectrum Health Offers Women Options for Heart Exercise

Giving women fun exercise options is the focus of a program on Tuesday, November 9. “A Healthy Active Heart: Options to Get Moving,” begins at 7 p.m. at the Calvin College Prince Conference Center, located at 1800 East Beltline Avenue SE in Grand Rapids.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women. Physical activity is key to helping prevent heart disease, but many women don’t know how to include it in their busy lives.

Kim DeLaFuente, MA, certified exercise physiologist, and other health professionals will help women try activities that are fun, effective and appropriate for any age and fitness level. Wear comfortable clothes. Tai chi, zumba, kickboxing and pilates are some of the activities that will be presented during the 90 minute program. The event is sponsored by the Spectrum Health Women’s Healthy Heart Program.

Preregistration is required for this free session. Call (616) 267-2626, option 4, or toll free (877) 495-2626. For information about women and heart disease, visit www.spectrum-health.org/womenandheartdisease.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan that offers a full continuum of care through the Spectrum Health Hospital Group, a collection of eight hospitals and more than 170 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group, mmpc® and West Michigan Heart—physician groups totaling more than 500 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with nearly 580,000 members. Spectrum Health’s 16,000 employees, 1,500 medical staff members and 2,000 volunteers are committed to delivering the highest quality care. The organization provided $79.4 million in community benefit during its 2009 fiscal year. In 2010, Spectrum Health was named a Top 10 Health System by Thomson Reuters.