Providence Health and Services Recognizes Missoula Hospital CATCH Program

Providence Health & Services, an organization of health services and member hospitals, recently awarded Saint Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center , in Missoula MT , the Providence Health & Services Mission Leadership Award for its work with the CATCH Program. The hospital was recognized at the organization's annual Excellence Forum in Stevenson , Washington .   

The CATCH Program in Missoula started in 1995, and is a collaborative effort between St. Patrick Hospital , the Missoula City-County Health Department and other area agencies, to address and reduce the growing number of overweight school-age children in Missoula County and surrounding areas.  Through this program, St. Patrick dietitians and clinicians work with schools and other partners to improve nutrition and physical activity level of kindergarten through fifth grade students.  Since the program's inception, 2,130 children, or 68% of the student population, have been through the CATCH curriculum, and third grade students are showing a 31% increase in knowledge of how to achieve a healthy diet and a 25% increase in knowledge of the activities most beneficial to the heart and lungs.  In addition, the number of children reporting that they eat fruit daily has increased by 38%, nutritional content of school lunches has improved , and activity in PE classes has increased.  Congratulations to the team at St. Patrick for this achievement !

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