Delores is a registered nurse who works as a Heart Health Specialist in the Blue Care Connection for A Healthy Heart Program for members who have or are at risk for coronary artery disease (CAD). Delores helps members who have experienced a variety of cardiac events from heart attacks to surgical procedures such as angioplasty.
"I work with members to set goals that make sense for them. We start by identifying strategies for good nutrition, exercise, or making lifestyle changes such as quitting smoking. Our goal is to educate and support our members as they make changes to a committed healthy lifestyle."
"I believe so strongly that overall health and fitness helps us in so many ways, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally, as well. It gives you energy and improves your quality of life. The prevention and wellness programs listed here can help literally millions of people." Here are highlights of some of those programs. For more detailed information go to our website at www.bluecrossma.com.
AHealthyMe.com is an online program devoted to helping members live healthier lives, offers self-care resources, a prescription drug library, health assessment quizzes, a variety of health calculators, tools for tracking children's immunizations, and more.
Our Blue Care Line and DecisionCare Guide help members determine when to seek emergency care, when to visit a doctor, and when to administer care at home. With the Blue Care Line (888-247-BLUE), members can speak with a registered nurse, anytime day or night.
MyBlueHealth is a comprehensive suite of lifestyle management tools and resources offered in a secure, confidential online environment in collaboration with WebMD. MyBlueHealth helps members learn about their health status, develop healthier habits, and better manage care.
Living Healthy Babies program provides resources parents need to keep babies healthy, before conception, during pregnancy and after birth. The program includes education for those considering becoming pregnant as well as for expectant parents. For parents of newborns, Living Healthy Babies is an essential guide to postnatal care.
Living Healthy Smoke Free program provides telephone counseling service with experienced counselors who help members quit smoking.
Go Walking is our comprehensive program promoting walking as a natural, healthy, and safe way to begin an effective exercise program for people of all ages.
Jump Up and Go! is a multidimensional program that can help children, their families, and their communities become more physically active and develop lifelong healthy behaviors. Jump Up and Go! was initiated in 1998, in response the growing trend that children's participation in physical activity was in significant decline and childhood overweight and obesity were on the rise.
Our Healthy Discounts program provides discounts on an extensive variety of products and services . From eyesight to eldercare, personal trainers to massages, Weight Watchers to bicycle helmets, dozens of discounts are offered.
Healthy Benefits is designed to help members better manage care and reduce the risk of developing a future illness. Our $150 weight loss benefit is valid for participating weight loss programs and our $150 fitness benefit makes health club membership affordable.
For more details on these as well as information on other programs, go to our website at www.bluecrossma.com.