Health and Wellness Programming

VIVA!

An enthusiastic celebration of life!

Pathway’s signature, award-winning VIVA! lifestyle fosters purpose and offers a whole new way of aging healthfully and happily. VIVA! offers a wealth of opportunities to enrich lives through social, educational and spiritual pursuits, as well as the chance for people to share their skills, talents and passions with others through resident-led activities.

Walk Across Illinois Challenge

Oak Hill offers progressive wellbeing programs inspired by VIVA! for better living. For starters, walkers along Oak Hill’s walking paths are stepping up to accept the Walk Across Illinois Challenge, Illinois’s health and fitness challenge open to all state residents. Each at their own pace, walkers will cover 167 miles this year, the equivalent of walking across Illinois from the Mississippi River in Rock Island to the Lake Michigan shoreline in Chicago.

Chair Chi and Yoga

Others prefer to get their exercise sitting down. Oak Hill offers a popular Chair Chi program, a gentle exercise to help people who cannot stand or have balance issues receive the benefits of traditional Tai Chi. The many benefits include balance, flexibility, range of motion, strength, energy, pain relief, stress reduction and peace of mind. Some residents are getting these very same benefits by practicing traditional and modified yoga.

VIVA! Laughter Yoga

Others are choosing to get fit and have fun with a new twist on yoga, VIVA! Laughter Yoga. A certified Laughter Yoga instructor leads the group through a workout that combines the breath work of yoga with laughter. Benefits include a good mood, heart protection, better immunity, emotional connection and a positive attitude. It’s gaining popularity at Oak Hill faster than a case of the giggles.

VIVA! Plus

Partnering with the best, VIVA! Plus provides truly integrated, patient-centered care.

Pathway’s VIVA! Plus program brings together an impressive group of third-party healthcare partners to give residents access to high-quality, coordinated medical and behavioral care options—all conveniently delivered in the privacy and comfort of their own homes.

Takes VIVA! and healthy living one step further

Physicians, pharmacists, home health nurses, physical and rehabilitation therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and hospice specialists all serve as an extension of the Pathway team. All providers are carefully selected for quality, share Pathway’s holistic VIVA! philosophy and work together to provide coordinated, seamless care. VIVA! Plus helps residents live well and recover more quickly when not well.

Better care means better outcomes

Not only is accessing care providers made simple, but the VIVA! Plus team results are outstanding. Working with our trusted healthcare partners, Pathway has reduced hospital 30-day readmissions by one third. Overall hospital admissions are on the decline and also the number of falls and injuries from falls.