Lincolnwood, IL--- Managed Care Concepts, Inc. Registered Nurses achieve the status of Certified Health Patient Advocate and Certified Wellness Coach, offered by HealthCoaches of America.
The Certified Wellness Coach is a specially trained healthcare professional who helps individuals understand their health conditions and engages them in a meaningful discussion about their health management. The Wellness Coach takes a holistic approach, which looks at the whole person and their entire lifestyle situation. A Wellness Coach understands the participant’s motivational basis, background, barriers and shortcomings. Wellness Coaches do not practice medicine; they supplement, support and personalize medical care.
This training program provides knowledge and skills necessary to intervene, counsel and influence individuals to make the right health choices and practice a healthy lifestyle. The Coaches are trained on the Brief Intervention Coaching Protocol, employing the states of readiness and motivational interviewing to assess readiness to change and promote behavioral changes.
