by Ascend Health Elevates Rehabilitation Services with Innovative Strategic Partnership
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BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES, June 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Ascend Health, a leading rehabilitation clinic in Newfoundland and Labrador, is proud to announce its new partnership with Diet ID™, a leading nutritional assessment and goal. -setting platform. This collaboration is a significant advancement in Ascend Health’s mission to provide advanced, individualized, evidence-based rehabilitation services that promote recovery, improve quality of life, and empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to achieve their goals achieve health and rehabilitation.
Recognizing the critical role nutrition plays in disease management and recovery, Ascend Health has integrated the Diet ID personalized nutritional wellness platform into its comprehensive care approach. This partnership allows caregivers to address patients’ nutritional needs effectively, simplifying and scaling the process to ensure broad impact.
Joe Yetman, physiotherapist and founder of Ascend Health, says, “Our goal is to use dietary ID to improve the health and well-being of patients with chronic metabolic diseases in Newfoundland and Labrador. Through our holistic and integrative treatment programs, we offer her personalized, targeted approach that educates patients on healthy lifestyle habits, enabling them to take better control of their health.”
Before the initial visit, patients will take a quick, digital, image-based Diet ID assessment. This innovative tool provides essential baseline data about eating habits, diet quality, and health goals. Patients will then engage with personalized goal tracking, gamified weekly nutrition micro-challenges, and tailored educational content. After participating in Ascend’s 12-week lifestyle program featuring Diet ID, a follow-up assessment several months later will measure the success of the program, offering reliable and immediate insights into the impact of the intervention on disease risk and overall health. Improvement in diet quality serves as an early indicator of positive changes in key health metrics, such as weight and biometric data.
David L. Katz, founder and CEO of Diet ID, says, “We are pleased and honored to partner with Ascend Health to enhance their comprehensive, personalized approach to patient care. The partnership is a perfect fit.”
Health care providers often struggle with the challenge of improving nutrition literacy among their patients, lacking sustainable and attractive resources. The Diet ID platform addresses this gap by offering a simple, easy-to-use tool that not only enhances nutrition education but also provides robust data tracking capabilities.
“To make a real difference, modern practices need simple, easy-to-use tools to help patients achieve truly optimal health. Diet ID simplifies the nutrition piece and gives the Ascend team a powerful resource to for education and data tracking,” says Yetman.
This partnership is the first of several planned wellness collaborations in Canada in 2024 with Diet ID, furthering its mission to empower every clinician to deliver food and nutrition as medicine. Ascend Health’s collaboration with Diet ID represents a progressive approach to rehabilitation, integrating cutting-edge tools to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care. This partnership demonstrates Ascend Health’s commitment to innovative solutions that support long-term health and wellness.
About Ascend Health
Ascend Health is an interdisciplinary rehabilitation and performance medicine and injury clinic based in Newfoundland and Labrador dedicated to providing high quality, evidence-based injury rehabilitation services. His team of experienced healthcare professionals collaborates to help clients overcome pain and return to a lifestyle of health and vitality.
About diet ID
Founded by Dr. David L. Katz and recently acquired by food-as-medicine company Tangelo, Diet ID is a leading platform for nutrition assessment and goal setting, offering innovative, evidence-based tools to improve nutrition literacy and health outcomes. Diet ID is committed to making diet quality a critical indicator with its patented innovation in comprehensive assessment of nutritional intake.
Rachna Govani
Diet ID
rgovani@dietid.com
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