 Thank y'all all for being here. This is a very important topic, and we're so blessed to have an opportunity. I want to thank the Richland Memorial Board and Trustees. Is Shirley Mills here? There's Shirley. Shirley called me up with the board and said, would you be interested in talking about the blue zones? I said, I know very much about the blue zones. Yes, I'm in. And have been so excited since then that we've had the opportunity to get to this stage. And I hope that when everybody leaves here today that we can get the majority of people to join in. If you haven't had an opportunity to see the Netflix series that's out there or read the book or checked it out, please do, because we have an opportunity. We're at an incredible place in our community right now where we are really moving forward and people are coming together. And with that opportunity comes trying to make a healthier community, not only a safe community, but a healthier community. And health is a lot around environment. We had a lot of discussions around that earlier at the CEO roundtable about that and how important it is that we follow parallel paths, because we need to make sure that we have the green spaces, the connectivity, the outdoor exercise, the opportunity for people, but also to make sure that we have fresh vegetables and healthy choices for all communities in every corner of our community. And the only way we do that is by working together. We have to take one step at a time. I'm excited for Dan and his team to share with you the blue zones and how we get there and as we move forward into the assessment as we assess our whole community. This is a pretty ambitious program. But if Fort Worth, Texas can do it, Columbia, South Carolina can do it. I'm a true believer that we are the best, well, first of all, I know we're the number one city in South Carolina, even though we don't have the title, but we will be. Secondly, I know that our community is invested together because I know how compassionate it is, how involved they are, and we see that at every step. It doesn't matter what issue we are talking about, folks are engaged and they wanna be part of the solution. And we went around the city and town halls and we did a little trick. We put a puzzle piece under everybody's seat and made them pull it out. If you ever looked at a puzzle piece, it has multiple sides. It connects in multiple ways. And our question was, how are you gonna be part of the bigger puzzle? What are you gonna do together to work with us or connect with your neighbors or improve your neighborhood or your business community or wherever it is? What is your role gonna be? So hopefully this is another piece of the puzzle that we're working together and we figure out how we're gonna connect all those pieces to improve this community. But our goal is to bring everyone together to have a healthier community and it starts at every level from early education to seniors to business owners to our healthcare partners in the community, which we have three. Thank you Prisma Health for being a big part of this conversation and a driver behind this. But it only gonna be successful is if we have this room and the next room and the next room and the next room and upstairs filled as well. So I hope when you leave tonight, you'll talk about it with your friends at work. You'll talk about it with your neighbors and that we'll continue to take the information, learn from our assessment and start taking piece by piece because you'll hear a lot about people, places and policy. Those three factors fall into a lot of things. You've heard us lately talk a lot about as we talk about balance reduction. It's people, places and behaviors. Kind of the same thing, right? There's some connectivity there that we have to affect that and a lot of its communication, a lot of its information. We have so many resources here, but yet with our ability to get information on this little device that we all live on, we still don't know about half the things that are happening or available to us. So hopefully as part of this overall assessment, it opens up doors for people to get more information and more opportunities to take advantage of what we already have, but give us opportunity to fill those gaps that we don't have. So I wanna thank y'all all for being here. I'm excited for the next part of this and this is gonna be great. Thank you. I too am excited for all the obvious reasons that Mayor just spoke of as well. You have to ask yourself why? Why would you be excited to be here today and be in this room, be in this atmosphere to talk about what? And that is that I'm not gonna have to share with you all the things about what Blue Zone has to offer, the partnerships that's gonna be necessary to be able to make this a sustainable endeavor itself. Dan's gonna do a lot of that today about just describing to you what Blue Zone really is and what it's about itself. But what excites me the most is look around the room. Look around the room right now. If you see the, I would say it's a hunger, if you will, and looking at what we need to do, looking at what the possibilities are, looking at bringing communities together, that's what it's really about. And when we're able to sustain that, we're able to bring individuals together for a common cause for the betterment of our communities and seeing that level of engagement, that's what really excites me about being here today. So if you think about helping our people, if you think about helping our community, there's certain things about, who wants to live a longer life? Right? Who wants to live a better life? I'm glad to see that. But making healthier choices, and we had a really long debate on that just minutes ago as well about making healthier choices, but I think a part of what you'll see today is how do we make it easier? How do we make it easier for you? Because it's hard. And was it, I think, was it Dr. Pastides was saying that? I can't think of the number of times that I've said I wanna go on a diet, I wanna eat healthier, I don't wanna eat this, I wanna exercise more, how many people have done that? I think I'd do it every day, I'm gonna start on Monday, right? But again, it's how do we make it easier? And the part of what you're gonna learn today and to really enjoy is that it is gonna, the things that we're gonna try to bring to the table is how do we make it easier as well? And I guess that's why I'm excited here today. And if I look at some of the things that we already do every single day, I know at Prisma Health that that's our purpose. It's why we wake up every single day, is how do we make a difference in the people's lives that we can impact, in the communities of which we serve as well. So our purpose is the core of everything that we really do and we always, our saying is that we wanna inspire health, wanna serve with compassion and we certainly wanna be the difference. And that's what you all are here to do as well, right? Or you wouldn't be here. So it's a big piece of what we're trying to do and as a state's largest non-profit healthcare provider, we were formed to really, I mean, this is the purpose. How do we create a better state of healthcare for the state of South Carolina? This includes providing full continuum care from preventative and we'll talk about wellness, components of it, all the way to life-saving services as well. It includes a commitment, a commitment to advancing health equity, trust. It's gonna talk about creating quality and equitable healthcare that is delivered to everyone, not just a certain population. As we've seen Columbia, we've seen the Midlands growth and revitalization, I guess why I'm excited up to be up here today as well is that we at Prisma are committed to that, to understand what that changing environment is and how do we have a participation with that as well. Excited to see the city. Mayor Rickman's leadership to continue this, to be well-invested. You see, he didn't have to really read from a script to be able to talk to you about his passion and what he wants to see as well for the community. There's a strong passion there and what did you say earlier? Maybe not ranked number one in the state of South Carolina, but we will be ranked number one in the state for because of that leadership. And so I wanna thank Mayor Rickman for that vision, that goal as well. So when I look at in just the recent years of what Prisma Health has really done and focused on our corporate and community partnerships, it wasn't just Prisma Health alone, it was a lot of those corporate and community partnerships that was extremely important for us. And as we expanded really to address what I would say, a lot of the social determinants of health and needs of a community. I mean, things that are extremely important because it's not just about coming into a doctor's office or coming into a hospital and us taking care of you, right? It's talking about things such as housing insecurities. It's talking about access to healthy foods. It's talking about educational attainment and the importance of that. It's talking about healthy behaviors such as walking and exercise, economic empowerment. You know, we recognize that these and non-medical issues have a true profound impact in the patient's community and overall healthcare status. Now think about this and what's most important. We cannot do it alone. We cannot do it alone. Not one single institution can do this alone. If I think of a healthcare entity itself, a hospital, we can really only impact 10% of that healthcare outcome. There's other things out there such as our social determinants of health that we're gonna talk about, that a lot of the initiatives that we're gonna talk about today are really there to do genetics and other things that go into that as well. So to move the needle on what health in the community really is, it has to include partnerships. And that's gonna take our local and state governments. It's gonna take businesses, foundations, healthcare organizations, social and civic organizations as well, faith-based communities. It's gonna take a true partnership to be able to make it happen. So when I look at that and why, again, I always go back to why I'm excited to be here is that many of you feel that role. Your engagement is gonna be extremely important for us to be able to move the dial, move the needle as we move forward. So when I look at the different partnerships that are out there, it's evidenced by many different things that we're doing right now as a healthcare entity, but it's gonna take everyone to come around the table to do it as well. So the Blue Zones Initiative under Mayor's Leadership, which is initiated by our Richland Board of Directors has the potential to make a true profound impact in our overall community for not only just today, but for something that's gonna be sustainable over a period of time if we remain committed to it. And remember what I said, no one can do it alone. It would take the city of Columbia, Richland County to lead the effort and to recruit many hands to be able to make this happen.