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metro
Health Wellness Commission
Create a legacy of economic social
vitality through the business of heath wellness
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Overview

• Why create the metro Denver Health and Wellness
  Commission?
• Metro Denvers unique position
• What are we proposing to do?
• What would we need from each of you?

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Obesity Chronic Disease Baby Boomers Children

• Poor Health

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Health Care
The business of Health Wellness represents
between 2-3 trillion dollars annually
It is very, very big business
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The city identified with health wellness ,in
the future, will benefit on multiple
levels. Jeff Olson, President Well
Nourished Worldwide
Health Wellness
The city identified with health wellness, in
the future, will benefit on multiple levels.
Jeff Olson, President Well Nourished Worldwide
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Overview

• Why create the metro Denver Health and Wellness
  Commission?
• Metro Denvers unique position
• What are we proposing to do?
• What would we need from each of you?

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Mining
Oil Gas
Telecom
Urban Life
Mining
Tourism
Aerospace
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Recreation
Sports
Technology
Manufacturing
Entrepreneurs
Bioscience
Finance
College Town
Culture Arts
Transportation
Suburbs
Environment
Can our identity represent an underlying economic
development opportunity
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2015
The Vision
Health Wellness Capitol
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For the first time in human history, American
children could become the first generation to
have shorter lives than their parents. Pres
ident Clinton
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Overview

• Why create the metro Denver Health and Wellness
  Commission?
• Metro Denvers unique position
• What are we proposing to do?
• What would we need from each of you?

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Key Objectives

• Establishment of a metro Denver HWC
• Overall Goal Develop a plan for making Metro
  Denver the Health and Wellness Capitol

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• Mission
• Create a legacy
• of economic social vitality
• through the business of
• health wellness

Mission Create a legacy of economic social
vitality through the business of sports

• Business/Economic Development
• Policy Programming
• Communications

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• ADA Annual Conference
• National Summits
• Convergence Festival
• USOC Bioperformance Symposium

• USCO Bioperformance Center
• Integrative Medicine Center
• EDC Research

• K-12 Health Education
• Health Care Reform
• Healthy Schools Policy

• Networking
• MM Breakfast Series

• America On the Move
• Evidence Based Medicine

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Structure of HWC

• Chair
• Executive Director
• Representatives (32)
• Critical that each metro community be represented

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Proposed Goals of the HWC

• Goals
• Secure initial support and funding with metro
  Mayors (Jan. 2006)
• Complete initial fundraiser of key donors (Feb.
  2006)
• Develop metro Denver HWC executive board (Feb.
  2006)
• Facilitate USOC BioPerformance Center committee
  (March 2006)
• Metro Mayors Health Wellness Breakfast
  Series (April 2006)
• Identify key city, business and community HW
  initiatives (May 2006)
• Establish Media Partners (June 2006)
• Secure On the Move K-12 Wellness Policy Summit
  (TBD 2006)
• Collaborate with the metro Denver EDC to research
  and identify economic development opportunities
  in health wellness industries
• Collaborate with the Denver metro CVB to
  research, identify and secure events and
  conferences in health wellness industries
• Host Health Wellness Best Practices Summit for
  Colorado Business
• Final Oucome
• Present commission report to Metro Mayors Caucus
  January 2007

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Funding for HWC

• Support for Year 1
• Goal 100,000
• State Health Department- 20,000
• Proposed Funding
• Mayors
• Denver-10,000
• Other Metro Cities- 2000-5000

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Funding Partners

• Metro Mayors
• Legislature
• State/Governor
• Federal

• Metro Denver EDC
• Denver Metro CVB
• Academic Institutions

• Executive Committee

• Health Care
• Medical
• Media
• Telecommunications
• Technology
• Sporting Goods
• Consultants
• Law Firms
• Wellness Companies

• Health One Alliance
• Rose Foundation
• Colorado Trust
• Caring for Colorado
• Robert Wood Johnson

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What do we need from each of you?

• Endorsement /Approval for the formation of the
  Metro Denver HWC
• Commit funds
• Appoint a representative from each Metro City to
  serve on the commission

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metro
Health Wellness Commission
Create a legacy of economic social
vitality through the business of heath wellness