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December 21, 2017


10 simple, healthy swaps for the New Year

SYF Healthy Swaps

Your family doesn’t have to completely overhaul their entire life to be healthier. Instead, make small, simple swaps every day.

With a few easy, realistic swaps, you can be healthier without making any extreme changes to the lifestyle you’re used to. The more swaps you make, the healthier you and your family will be.

Click here to learn how to have a happy, healthy New Year by making these 10 simple swaps.


TSET grantee Oklahoma Hospital Association honors two hospitals for efforts to improve health

OHA WorkHealthy Award

From left to right: OHA President Craig Jones; Arbuckle Memorial Hospital representative Pam Chitwood and OHA 2016-17 board chairman Jimmy Leopard

Through a TSET grant, OHA offers the WorkHealthy Hospital program that provides consultation and education to hospitals, assisting them in adopting policies and sustainable infrastructure changes that make the healthy choice the easy choice and to support employee and patient well-being.

Valir Health in Oklahoma City, and Arbuckle Memorial Hospital in Sulphur, were acknowledged for reaching the Platinum level in all nine dimensions of WorkHealthy standards: culture of wellness, nutrition/food environment, physical activity, tobacco freedom, emotional wellbeing, financial wellbeing, health risk assessment and outreach, incentives/communication, and evaluation. The Excellence recognition is a goal that they have been dedicated to reaching for more than three years.

This is the highest level of achievement that a hospital can attain through this program.

Since 2013, the WHH initiative, in collaboration with the South Carolina Hospital Association and with funding from the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), has touched more than 40 hospitals statewide and impacted approximately 25,000 employees in Oklahoma.  


Incentive grant recipients recognized for accomplishments

Meeker Schools

From left to right: Lauren Wheeler, TSET Healthy Living Program Assistant Coordinator; Rep. Kevin Wallace; Mike Hedge, Meeker Principal; Jeff Pruitt, Meeker Superintendent; Sharon Howard, TSET Healthy Schools Program Manager; Sheri Ripley, TSET Healthy Living Program Assistant Coordinator; David Smith, TSET Healthy Living Program Coordinator


TSET Healthy Schools Incentive Grants promote wellness by offering grants to schools and districts. These grantees must implement health-promoting policies, encouraging students, faculty and staff to eat better, move more and be tobacco free. Last month, multiple school districts were awarded grants for implementing those health-promoting policies for students and staff.

Allen Public Schools received a $3,000 incentive grant and will use the grant funds to purchase playground improvement.  

Konawa Public Schools received a $3,000 incentive grant and will use the funds to purchase water bottle filling stations to promote water consumption for students and staff.

New Lima Public Schools: received an incentive grant in the amount of $3,000 incentive grant and will use the grant funds to purchase playground equipment.

Davenport Public Schools received a $3,000 incentive grant and will use the grant funds to purchase PE Equipment.  

Meeker Public Schools received a $3,000 incentive grant and will use the grant funds to purchase Exercise and Weight Room Equipment.  

Rattan Public Schools will use a $3,000 incentive grant to purchase water bottle filling stations to promote water consumption for students and staff.  

Bennington Public Schools received a $3,000 incentive grant and plans on using the grant funds to install a basketball court and goals as part of a larger project. 

Denison Public School received a $1,500 grant and will be using the funds to purchase PE and Playground Equipment.

Idabel Public Schools received a $5,000 grant and will be using the funds for playground improvement as part of a larger project. 

Wright City Public Schools received a $3,000 grant and are using the funds to purchase physical activity equipment.

Valliant Public Schools, a previous grant recipient, received a $1,000 grant and is using the funds for their walking track. 

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