Community Education

At Baptist Health Lexington, we're known for our community education programs. We offer resources to help patients and families find answers to healthcare questions and to promote healthy lifestyles. 

Community Education:

• Freedom from Smoking®, a program designed to help you kick the habit.
• GirlwoRx is a summertime session for girls 12-14. Get skills, get fit, get moving! Summer sessions run June 24-June 28 and July 29 - August 2.
• Nutrition Counseling to help you develop an eating plan that will fit your food preferences, resources and schedule.
• Pediatric CPR is for parents, babysitters, childcare workers and others who want to learn CPR techniques for children.
• Safe Sitter is a medically accurate program to prepare children ages 11 to 13 for babysitting.
  

Childbirth and Parenting  Education:

• Art of Breastfeeding helps prepare expectant moms for the breastfeeding experience.
• Comfort Measures for Childbirth offers parents-to-be breathing, relaxation, comfort and support methods.
• GirlwoRx is a summertime session for girls 12-14. Get skills, get fit, get moving! Sessions runs June 24-June 28 and July 29- August 2.
• Great Expectations  gives you a general overview of having your baby at Baptist Health Lexington.
• Laboring the Natural Way is a series for those who wish to explore the option of a non-medicated birth experience.  
• Little Fingers, Little Toes is a new class designed to help parents learn the basics of infant care, including diapering and bathing.
• Marvelous Multiples is designed to help prepare you for the challenge of having more than one baby!
• New Brother/New Sister helps your child feel "special" and an important part of the childbirth event.
• Pediatric CPR is for parents, babysitters, childcare workers and others who want to learn CPR techniques for children.
• Prenatal Yoga & Happy Baby Yoga Prenatal yoga is a yoga class specially modified for women in any stage of pregnancy. After your baby is born, continue on and bring your baby to happy baby Yoga!
• Safe Sitter is a medically accurate program to prepare children ages 11 to 13 for babysitting.

Cancer Education:

• Journey to Empowerment, a cancer series offering tools and encouragement you need to live life to the fullest.
• Breast Health by Women, a program designed to promote early detection of breast cancer in its most treatable stages.
• Cancer Resource Library, providing information and resources for cancer patients and their families.
• Focus on Healing Through Movement and Exercise is a therapeutic exercise program for women who have had any kind of breast surgery, node dissection, radiation, chemotherapy or who suffer from chronic fatigue.
• Freedom from Smoking®, a program designed to help you kick the habit.
• Look Good...Feel Better, a free program to help women cancer patients improve their appearance and self-image.
• Nutrition Counseling to help you develop an eating plan that will fit your food preferences, resources and schedule.

Diabetes Education:

• "Life with Diabetes" Program designed to help patients with high or low blood sugar learn how to control their condition.
• Nutrition Counseling to help you develop an eating plan that will fit your food preferences, resources and schedule.

Heart Education:

• Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to help heart patients recover and maintain their optimal health for both short-term and lifelong benefits.
• Freedom from Smoking®, a program designed to help you kick the habit.
• Pediatric CPR for parents, babysitters, childcare workers and others who want to learn CPR techniques for children.