Day 15

Today I will …

Expand My Palate

Whether you cook up a new recipe, explore a new cuisine or try a new dish – expand your plate and your palate! You know we love a good foodie photo, so share your new dish on social with the hashtag #DGFGChallenge.

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Daily Devotional

— James 1:4 (NIV) 

“Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” 

HELPFUL TIP

You can adjust your taste buds! Retrain your brain to eat healthier by cutting back on sweet and salty foods, pairing new foods with ones you already like and by making healthy substitutions in recipes.
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Mediterranean Meal-Planning

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Need more veggies in your life?

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Style a healthy charcuterie Board
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Franciscan Health’s registered dietitians have recipes for everything from quick snacks to hearty meals. And since they’re from dietitians, you’ll know you are getting the right nutrition.

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Mediterranean Staples for your Pantry

Whether the focus is on losing weight, eating heart-healthy or even achieving a healthier gut, the Mediterranean diet continues to make headlines.

Share how you’re completing today’s challenge on social. Tag a friend to join the challenge with you! #DGFGChallenge

Franciscan Health Foundation – Doing Good in Our Communities

P E A C E Initiative Programs
The PEACE Initiative combines the strength of each of the Franciscan Foundation offices to bring together doctors, partners and community members along with 18,000 Franciscan Alliance employees to impact those in need. Through a comprehensive giving program, each and every contribution has an impact on the future of communities where our patients and associates live, work, learn and play.
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Educate communities on important health-related issues. Gifts to Educate support everything from childhood-education initiatives to nursing-school scholarships. Your gifts teach people how to lead healthier lives; work to reduce childhood obesity; support higher education for nurses and clinical staff; support clinical pastoral care and more.

PROGRAMS

Your gift to the Creating Positive Relationships program in Northern Indiana helps teens resist peer pressure, improve self esteem and make healthy choices in peer relationships. At the core of both the middle school and high school program is the message that postponing sexual activity until marriage is the healthiest choice.

Seventy percent of obese children have at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The South Suburban Chicago Healthy Choices program is focused on helping children and families get on a path to better health with support and education on healthy eating and physical activity. Your gift supports community outreach and education.

People with chronic conditions such as heart failure, COPD and diabetes need to be committed to a healthy lifestyle to avoid hospitalization. The Franciscan Healthy Living Center in Western Indiana is a comprehensive disease management program providing education, support and disease prevention tips. Your gift helps people live a healthier life.

Help give supplemental clinical training by supporting our High Fidelity Simulation Lab in Lafayette, Indiana. The simulation lab offers realistic, interactive training in a safe environment with virtual, life-like patient mannequins. This supplemental training helps students see the effects of mistakes without harming patients – greatly enhancing their learning.

Our 4,500 Franciscan Health nurses serve on the front lines of patient care by providing safe, compassionate, quality care to patients and their families. But the field of nursing is ever changing and it is critical that our nurses receive continuing education. That is why we created the Nursing Excellence Fund. Your support will go towards continuing education and training as well as resources to combat burnout and compassion fatigue.

In addition to the advancement of medicine, we believe in the advancement of people. We encourage Franciscan Health employees to pursue educational opportunities, so they may bring the most current and comprehensive care to their patients. Your gift enables the enrichment of their lives and the lives of their patients.

Franciscan Health Foundation’s Physician Well-Being Fund provides financial resources for promoting physician health, wellness and the prevention of burnout. Gifts to Physician Well-Being are used to secure keynote speakers, provide continuing education, and distribute resource materials that address the topic of physician burnout. The fund may also provide small expressions of appreciation to the medical staff.

Behavioral issues stemming from a wide range of causes can be particularly devastating to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18. There is a growing need for residential programs targeted to this vulnerable age group. Your gift to this Dyer, Indiana-based center supports a residential treatment program with a highly-structured and controlled environment.

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