Is your New Year’s resolution to get healthy and fit? If so, Piedmont Fayette Hospital’s Rehabilitation and Fitness Center can help.

Throughout the month of January, Piedmont Fayette Hospital’s Rehabilitation and Fitness Center is waiving its $50 initiation fee for new members. The Rehabilitation and Fitness Center offers a variety of healthy-living resources for Fayette residents to start living a healthier and happier life.

New members receive a free fitness assessment and customized program to help them reach their fitness goals. New members will find out what areas of fitness to concentrate on, how to exercise safely and monitor progress, and will be taught how to use the fitness center equipment.

“When someone decides he or she wants to get fit, it is sometimes difficult to know where to begin,” said Jill Fenimore, director of Piedmont Fayette Hospital's Rehabilitation and Fitness Center. “We help people of all ages, regardless of their current fitness level, achieve their goals of becoming physically fit.”

Focusing on disease prevention, rehabilitation of injuries and maintenance of optimal health, the Rehabilitation and Fitness Center educates members on fitness and a healthy lifestyle. It also features advanced cardiovascular and strength training programs.

“There is something for everyone here,” said Fenimore. “The New Year is the perfect time for residents to join and experience this great resource the hospital has to offer.”

Piedmont Fayette Hospital, in cooperation with the American Lung Association, also offers a smoking cessation program. Classes are on Mondays, Jan. 23-Feb. 27, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Conference Room A in the 1279 Building. Register with Link2Health by calling 1-866-900-4321.

Piedmont Fayette Hospital’s Rehabilitation and Fitness Center is located across from the main hospital in the Fayette Professional Center. For more information, call 770-719-7290 or visit www.fayettehospital.org.

Named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals two years in a row by Solucient and one of the nation’s Most Wired by the 2005 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, Piedmont Fayette Hospital, a 100-bed acute care community hospital located on Highway 54 in Fayetteville, offers 24-hour emergency services, medical and surgical services, as well as diagnostic and rehabilitation services. With over 1000 employees and a medical staff of more than 350 physicians, PFH is a private, not-for-profit organization and a member of Piedmont Healthcare, which also includes Piedmont Hospital – named in the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals® list in 2005 and 2002 as well as one of the nation’s 100 Most Wired by the 2004 and 2005 Most Wired Surveys and Benchmarking Studies – a 500-bed acute tertiary care facility in the north Atlanta community of Buckhead; Piedmont Mountainside Hospital, a 35-bed community hospital in Jasper; the Piedmont Hospital Foundation; Piedmont Physicians Group, a 76-member primary care physician group with 19 offices throughout metro Atlanta; and the Piedmont Clinic, a 469-member physician network. Piedmont Fayette and Piedmont Hospitals were the only two Georgia hospitals on the 2005 list of 100 Top Hospitals. For more information, visit www.fayettehospital.org.

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