The Convergence of Care: Embedding Lifestyle Medicine in Health Systems

Flip your Script

Welcome to another episode of Flip Your Script, a vodcast by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, hosted by ACLM President Dr. Padmaja Patel. In each episode, we explore five key takeaways on how lifestyle medicine is helping each guest reimagine the future of healthcare.

This episode, “The Convergence of Care: Embedding Lifestyle Medicine in Health Systems,” features Todd LaPorte, CEO of HonorHealth, an integrated health system serving the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Under his leadership, HonorHealth has made significant investments in advancing whole-person care through community engagement, employee well-being, and systemwide lifestyle medicine integration.

Todd shares how his personal health journey sparked a transformation in how HonorHealth approaches health—moving from sick care to well care. He discusses the organization’s collaboration with Blue Zones to improve community health outcomes, establish a worksite well-being certification, and launch a new Integrative Health and Lifestyle Medicine Institute.

Through this conversation, you’ll hear how HonorHealth is redefining care delivery by converging community initiatives, workforce well-being, and clinical excellence—and why this model offers a roadmap for health systems across the country.

If you’re interested in how healthcare leaders can champion system-level change and empower clinicians to deliver preventive, lifestyle-focused care, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the medical professional society for physicians and other professionals dedicated to clinical and worksite practice of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable healthcare system.

Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

Lifestyle medicine-certified clinicians are trained to apply evidence-based, whole-person, prescriptive lifestyle change to treat and, when used intensively, often reverse such conditions. Applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connections—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.

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