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Take control of your health and wellness
Proactive healthcare helps you understand your health, lower risk of illness and build better habits.
Seeing a primary care doctor each year is an important part of staying healthy. A primary care doctor from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center can provide routine care and screening while also serving as a caring partner and trusted advisor as you make important health decisions throughout life.
To support your long-term wellbeing, you can also explore the wide range of wellness classes, services and the modern health and fitness centers we’ve built across central Ohio. All have been developed by experts using the latest medical research.
Whether you want to focus on one area or address several health concerns, you’ll receive the care and encouragement you need for a healthier future — starting today at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Featured programs and services
Mindfulness in Motion
Learn to build resiliency and manage stress by incorporating mindfulness into your everyday busy life.
JamesCare for Life
Exercise classes, self-care and other programs for cancer survivors.
Exercise is Medicine
Making physical activity and exercise a standard part of disease prevention and treatment.
All programs and services
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- Barbell athlete performance
- Endurance athlete performance
- Golf performance
- Lower extremity injury prevention
- Overhead throwing analysis and injury recovery
- Performing arts medicine
- Sports nutrition
- Sports performance training
- Sports psychology and counseling
- Tactical athlete/first responder physical therapy
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- James Mobile Education Kitchen
- Lifestyle weight management
- Nutrition education: Including cooking classes, special events and recipes, with specific ideas for diabetes, heart health, weight loss and low sodium diets.
- Personalized meal planning: Targeting specific health concerns or food sensitivity.
- Sports nutrition
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- Exercise is Medicine: Connect with a fitness expert who will design a personalized plan based on your own starting point.
- Live Well with Parkinson’s community classes, including Exercise with Purpose
- New Albany Health and Fitness Center: Staffed by Ohio State physical fitness experts.
- The Healthy Community Center: Take free fitness classes.
- Walk with a Doc
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- Destination Medicine Global Healthcare: Assistance with every aspect of travel, housing, communication and coordinated care, to ensure that distance and language are no obstacles to receiving cancer care at the OSUCCC – James.
- Drug Repository Program: A program for receiving or donating unused medications.
- Financial and Medication Assistance for patients of The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
- Financial and Medication Assistance for patients of The OSUCCC – James
- Free health clinics
- The Healthy Community Center
- Healthy Community Day
- JamesCare for Life
- Mid-Ohio Farmacy: A fresh food “prescription card” from your Ohio State provider can give you weekly access to fresh produce at any of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective’s participating pantries in central Ohio.
- Mobile healthcare units, including:
- Community Care Coach
- The College of Dentistry Dental Health Outreach Mobile Experience (HOME) Coach
- The James Mobile Education Kitchen
- James Mobile Lung Screening Unit
- James Mobile Mammography Unit
- Moms2B
- Ross Heart Hospital Community Garden
- Total Health Care Center: Community-based physical and mental healthcare for people of all ages.
- Unverferth House: Providing temporary housing for patients and families who live outside Franklin County.
- Walk with a Doc
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- Anti-aging cosmetic services
- Center for Healthy Aging, Self-Management and Complex Care
- Dental care, including dentures, partials, crowns, bridges and bone grafts.
- Driving assessments and occupational therapy for safe, independent driving.
- Early osteoarthritis and joint health program
- Eye care and vision services
- Fall prevention clinic
- Geriatrics: Specialized, quality-of-life care for older adults.
- Hearing test
- James Cancer Aging and Resiliency (CARE) Clinic
- Lifestyle Medicine: Helping you develop healthy daily habits.
- Mindful Aging: Program for a meaningful retirement and purpose-filled living.
- Resources for seniors, including publications, association lists and state and national government services.
- SAGE test: Self Administered Gerocognitive Exam to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Walk with a Doc
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- Exercise is Medicine: Connect with a fitness expert who will design a personalized plan based on your own starting point.
- Pharmacist-led programs:
- Preventing heart disease
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- Dental care
- Exercise is Medicine: Connect with a fitness expert who will design a personalized plan based on your own starting point.
- Eye care and vision services
- Free naloxone/Narcan® kits
- Genetic testing
- Get a snapshot of your health and important screening tests
- Hands-only CPR
- Healthy Community Day: This annual event provides free health screenings, giveaways, health information and entertainment for the whole family.
- Hearing test
- Lifestyle Medicine: Helping you develop healthy daily habits.
- Mobile Health Units:
- James Mobile Mammography Unit
- James Mobile Lung Cancer Screening Unit
- James Mobile Education Kitchen
- Dental Health Outreach Mobile Experience (H.O.M.E.) Coach
- Community Care Coach
- MyChart Care Companion: An interactive digital health assistant that sends you personalized notifications, task checklists, medication reminders, educational content and easy connection to your healthcare providers.
- Pharmacy services, including prescriptions, immunizations and drug take-back receptacles.
- Sleep issues and health
- Travel Vaccine Clinic
- Walk with a Doc
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- Aesthetic services and cosmetic procedures
- Center for Integrative Health: Treating the whole person with services that include:
- Integrated health and wellness classes
- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic care
- Therapeutic massage
- Mindfulness in Motion: An eight-week class designed to combat burnout and increase resiliency.
- Dental care, including cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening and braces/Invisalign.
- Eye care and vision services
- Hearing test
- JamesCare for Life offers specialized care, classes and support for cancer survivors to protect the following:
- Sleep issues and health
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- Center for Women’s Health weight management program
- Comprehensive Weight Management Program
- Exercise is Medicine: Connect with a fitness expert who will design a personalized plan based on your own starting point.
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- Mammography
- Menopause care
- Moms2B support group
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Preconception counseling
- Pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding classes
- Smart Start to Motherhood: This program offers pelvic floor education and health information during and after pregnancy.
- Women’s mental and behavioral health
- Women's sexual health
- Women’s weight management
Health and wellness opportunities close to home
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Healthy Community Center
The Ohio State Healthy Community Center on Columbus’ Near East Side offers free and family-friendly programs, classes and events to help residents build healthier habits and feel supported in their wellness goals. Created with community input and partnership, the center brings healthcare beyond the hospital through cooking classes, fitness and senior programming, special events, a healthy café, meeting spaces and health education for common concerns such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and healthy aging. No center membership is required.
Ohio State at the Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany
You’ll find The Ohio State Health and Fitness Center inside this community facility. Paid membership gives you access to personalized wellness plans, medically based fitness classes and more.
You do not need to be a member of the fitness center to use Ohio State clinical and medical services, including:
- Behavioral Health
- Exercise is Medicine
- Lifestyle Weight Management programs
- Live Well with Parkinson’s community classes, including Exercise with Purpose
- Sports Medicine Rehabilitation for return-to work activity needs, post-surgery recovery and support for osteoarthritis, balance issues and everyday aches and pains.
Ohio State at The Well Hilliard
Recreation or facility membership is not required to access these Ohio State services:
- Behavioral Health
- The Center for Integrative Health: Designed to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being with services such as acupuncture, massage therapy, nutrition support, mindfulness and other evidence-based approaches.
- Exercise is Medicine
- Lifestyle Weight Management programs
- Live Well with Parkinson’s community classes, including Exercise with Purpose
- Physical Therapy
- Urgent Care
Ohio State at Upper Arlington’s Bob Crane Community Center
You do not need a community center membership to use these Ohio State programs:
- The Center for Integrative Health: Supporting the whole person, mind, body and spirit, with services that include acupuncture, Ayurveda, chiropractic care, functional medicine, integrative physician consults, nutrition counseling, osteopathic manipulation, therapeutic massage and community classes.
- Exercise is Medicine
- JamesCare for Life
- The James Cancer Supportive Care
- Live Well with Parkinson’s community classes, including Exercise with Purpose
- Physical Therapy