 After a decade of service in Morrison County, the Live Better Live Longer group will come to an end at CHI St. Gabriel's Health in Little Falls. Our Sarah Winkleman has more on the closure of the local health organization. After serving over 1,000 families with help from over 7,000 volunteers, the Live Better Live Longer group is coming to a close after CHI St. Gabriel's Health can no longer fund the initiative. We mutually came to the agreement and realization that that was going to be very hard for us to sustain this organization on its own. For an organization that can only be described as a blessing. Working with, you know, from little kids through seniors through adults, it has been just a lot of fun and very rewarding. After the health movement started nearly 10 years ago. The mission was brought forth to our hospital to be a part of where we took health beyond the four walls. When back then, the county health rankings were released for the first time. Morrison County fell at number 80 out of 85 counties in terms of their health outcomes, which was really grim. With a community pulling together and climbing up the ranks to now be 29th in the state. Just eating a little bit better eating some more plants. It's you know, taking more steps, building a little bit more physical activity into your life. A trend that Morrison County plans to keep alive well into the future. There's some concern about how is that going to happen and we don't really know. But we really believe that this community has embraced and made some of that culture change to look at health being inclusive. Reporting in Little Falls, Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. The Live Better Live Longer group will officially close their doors on June 28th. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.