 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new 40 million dollar facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. The Pikeville family area YMCA is taking initiative to better the community's overall health and well-being with their wellness Wednesdays. Every Wednesday there will be a new service offered at the Y that will either increase health awareness or offer different types of health checks to the public. These services are made possible through numerous partnerships the Y has maintained over the years. We started with Wellness Wednesdays with in-house with our employees so we would have little initiatives to do like to increase our water, to increase exercise, to make better food choices and we decided after the first of the year where that's kind of like a reboot for people reset and we thought that it would be a good idea to maybe give them opportunities to find out what's what's available to them as far as services within our area. Pikeville Medical Center, ARH, Pike County Health Department and Mountain Comprehensive Care Center are just a few of the organizations participating each Wednesday. Non-members can also attend Wellness Wednesdays free of charge. Information about upcoming services can be found on the YMCA Facebook page. We have a menagerie of different programs and organizations that offer so many different things that can be beneficial to each person if they want to use them. So instead of us trying to do everything we want to include these other partners that we have so that they're able to help with the progress of people's health and wellness. We have a different person that we reach out to each week. So far you know we've had PMC, we've had the Pike County Health Department, Klein's Medical Group just to name a few and they offer different things. They may come up here and do blood pressures and glucose checks or they may just give information about what they're offering just a lot of information to help that person to make decisions in what role that they would like to go forward in their life. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.