Mon - Thu 8:30 - 4:30

1 (541) 274-2770

128 South 11th St. Klamath Falls, Oregon

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Welcome to the Wellness Center

Sky Lakes Wellness Center is a lifestyle medicine clinic delivering first-class care in a supportive environment to help you reach your health and fitness goals.

Class Offerings

Our ancillary classes are open to community members and our year-long program participants. Join us!

Join us to try simple and affordable meals that will please the whole family. Our hands-on cooking classes will teach you tasty recipes, build your confidence in the kitchen, and empower you to eat for your health!

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Our interactive mindfulness classes provide tools and relaxation exercises to help you increase joy, enhance your communication and listening skills, reduce stress, and help you create a healthy work/life balance.

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Our fitness classes are designed to meet everyone’s needs. No matter your shape, size, or ability, our classes can be adapted to your comfort and skill level. Whether you're just getting started, or need ongoing support, we're here for you.

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Improve Your Life

Are you ready to awaken your inner potential and live life to the fullest? This year-long intensive lifestyle program will guide you step by step, helping you shed pounds while reversing chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.

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Our Services

We offer more than just classes and year-long programs.

Body Composition Analysis

This analysis allows you to understand how you to see how much fat you have (and where) in comparison to your muscle mass.

Individual Visits

Our multidisciplinary team of providers is here for you! One-on-one appointments are available with our physician, dietitian, or behavioral therapist.

Employee Wellness Support

Employees want wellness benefits and support, and the Wellness Center can help. The Wellness Center can provide a comprehensive health risk assessment and enhance the wellness benefits at your business.

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Working Together to Support Wellness

The Wellness Center Team believes that we are more likely to live a healthy lifestyle if our home, our worksite, and environment encourage us to do so. By incorporating more sidewalks and bicycle lanes, increased public transportation and access to affordable fruits and vegetables, we create a community where the cheap and easy option is also the healthy option! Individual interventions will be difficult to sustain unless we support active lifestyles and healthy, affordable food in our environment. This is why we are working within our Klamath Falls community.

Blue Zones

The Blue Zones Project is a community well-being initiative that makes healthy choices easier in all the places we live, work and play. The Wellness Center team supports the Blue Zones Project, from working with our built environment in downtown Klamath Falls, to grocery stores incentives, to encouraging community involvement.

  • Learn more about the Blue Zones concept by watching this short video.
  • Find out about what Oregon is doing statewide to become the healthiest state.
  • Keep track of the exciting Blue Zones development in Klamath Falls.

Healthy Klamath

Healthy Klamath is an organization composed of a variety of stakeholders within the community that was formed in response to Klamath’s poor health rankings.
The Wellness Center team has played an important role in helping Healthy Klamath obtain a Transportation Growth Management grant from Oregon Department of Transportation to design a new Urban Trail Plan, hosting a Walk & Plant walking series, and working with many stakeholders to improve Klamath County’s recreation resources.
Find out more at www.healthyklamath.org.

Downtown Parks

They provide gathering spaces and improved quality of life, and also improve the economy:

  • houses near parks sell 5-20% higher than comparable houses not located near a park
  • municipal revenues and property values increase
  • parks attract more businesses.

 

Because of this, members of the Wellness Team worked with a group of citizens to create two downtown green spaces.

  1. The first park is called Sugarman’s Corner and is at the corner of 6th and Main Street. It is a great space for gathering, enjoying lunch, live music, local art and more.
  2. The second park is called Klamath Commons and is located at the corner of Klamath Avenue and 11th Street. Including a splash pad, nature play, and a memorial to Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke, this park is a cornerstone of our community.

Geographic Information System (GIS)

We were fortunate to be awarded $104,000 from the Cambia Health Foundation to create GIS maps that show “hot spots” of health outcomes by neighborhood.
The maps were produced by Dr. John Ritter, Director of OIT’s GIS Department.Now, for the first time in Klamath, we can see the breakdown of chronic disease by neighborhood. For example, we can see the areas in town with the highest rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, or obesity.
You can find an example of our maps. 

Separated Bike Lane Project

After gathering information from the GIS maps and conducting additional research, the Wellness Team used the remaining grant funding from the Cambia Health Foundation to embark on a separated bike lane project along Oregon Avenue, connecting Moore Park to downtown.
The project was broken into two phases with Phase 1 connecting Biehn Street and downtown and Phase 2 connecting Biehn Street to Moore Park. Cascade Health Alliance provided $209,000 of funding to construct Phase 1, which was completed in June 2018.
Separated bike lanes increase:
  • physical activity levels
  • improve safety of pedestrians and bicycle riders
  • they improve the perception of safety among drivers.

 

They also improve economies:
  • sales increase at local businesses
  • rents increase along the path
  • there is a decrease in commercial vacancies
  • tourism goes up
  • traffic slows
  • there are fewer crashes and cycling injuries.

 

Geo Trail

We were also fortunate to receive an $83,000 grant from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to build a trail connecting the Oregon Institute of Technology and Sky Lakes Medical Center called the Geo Trail.
The Geo Trail will be a 6,000 foot long hiking and snowshoeing trail located on the hillside behind the campuses. Nearly half the trail (2,500 feet) will be ADA accessible, including the trailhead parking lot.
A few benefits of the trail:
  • link the two campuses to Crystal Terrace
  • provide scenic vistas of the Klamath Basin
  • offer an opportunity for relaxation, education about geothermal and solar energy, and a new space for physical activity.

Happy Customers

We can just tell a great difference in our lives... It's a great, great program. I would suggest it for anybody!

Al + Ellen

Al Lost 25.6 lbs and Ellen lost 22.6 lbs

It has been a great program. We're learning a lot and it has been the best program that we've ever used.

Sean + Regina

Sean Lost 85 lbs and Regina lost 45 lbs

I now have the tools to continue this for the rest of my life and not have to struggle with it. These are lifetime changes and changes I can pass down to my kids.

Gene

Lost 80 lbs

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